Sensation and Perception Quiz 1

What is the process by which (objective) stimuli are detected, transduced into nerve impulses, and sent to the brain?

• Sensory Adaptation

• Psychophysics

• Sensation

• Perception

What is the study of how we perceive sensory stimuli based on their physical characteristics?

• Signal Detection Theory

• Just Noticeable Difference

• Psychophysics

• Absolute Threshold

What is the lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect a change 50 percent of the time?

• Transduction

• Just Noticeable Difference

• Absolute Threshold

• Sense Receptor

What is the process of converting an external energy or substance into electrical activity within neurons?

• Psychophysics

• Sensory Adaptation

• Transduction

• Sense Receptor

What is the ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously?

• Top-Down Processing

• Selective Attention

• Parallel Processing

• Bottom Up-Processing

What is the process of selecting one sensory channel and ignoring or minimizing others?

• Filter of Attention

• Selective Attention

• Inattentional Blindness

• Change Blindness

What is the failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is focused elsewhere?

• Perceptual Constancy

• Perceptual Set

• Inattentional Blindness

• Change Blindness

What is the process by which we perceive stimuli consistently across varied conditions?

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual Constancy

• Perception

• Selective Attention

What is the ratio of the power of a signal to the power of background noise?

• Signal-to-noise ratio

• ROC Curves

• Signal Detection Theory

• Polygraphs

What is the process of constructing a whole from parts?

• Bottom Up-Processing

• Parallel Processing

• Perceptual Set

• Top-Down Processing