Sensation and Perception Quiz

What is sensation?

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

• The process by which sensory systems receive stimuli from the environment

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

What is bottom-up processing?

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

• Information processing that analyzes the raw stimuli entering through the sensory systems

• The minimum amount of difference needed to detect that two stimuli are not the same

• Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others

What is perception?

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

• The process by which sensory systems receive stimuli from the environment

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

What is the absolute threshold?

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

• The process by which sensory systems receive stimuli from the environment

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

What is the difference threshold?

• The minimum amount of difference needed to detect that two stimuli are not the same

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

What is sensory adaptation?

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

• The process by which sensory systems receive stimuli from the environment

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

• Diminished sensitivity to constant and unchanging stimulation

What is selective attention?

• Diminished sensitivity to constant and unchanging stimulation

• The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information

• Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

What is the electromagnetic energy?

• The ability to focus on one stimulus at a time

• The process by which sensory systems receive stimuli from the environment

• An energy spectrum that includes X-rays, radar, and radio waves

• The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus

What is the function of the cornea?

• To analyze the raw stimuli entering through the sensory systems

• To focus conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• To bend light rays and begin focusing them

• To organize and interpret incoming sensory information

What are rods and cones?

• Visual receptor cells located in the retina that can detect only black, white, and gray

• Cells that form the middle layer in the retina

• Specialized cells in every sensory system of the body that can turn other kinds of energy into neural impulses

• Visual receptor cells located in the retina that can detect sharp details and color