Sensation / Processing Quizzes

Ben walks into his first ever class as a high school student, after having moved into the city only a couple weeks ago. What form of processing is Ben using in this environment?

• Perception

• Top-down Processing

• Bottom-up Processing

• Perceptual Set

What is the one exception that draws your attention during the Cocktail Party Affect?

• When you hear your mother

• When you hear your name

• When you hear your teacher

• There is no exception

Inattentional Blindness: Failure to see a visible ____(s) when one's focus is somewhere else.

• Motion

• Light

• Change

• Object

Who was the psychologist that came up with the concept of absolute threshold.

• Gustav Fechner

• George Stratton

• Mrs. Ellis

• Gestalt

Which one of these is NOT a member of the Signal Detection Theory?

• Motivation

• Experience

• Expectation

• Fatigue

• They are all parts of the Signal Detection Theory

What specific things can affect your perceptual set?

• Environment

• Context

• School

• Culture

Retinal Disparity is a type of Binocular Depth Cue.

• True

• False

What is the term for a picture that involves parallel lines converging into one singular point?

• Relative Height

• Interposition

• Relative Size

• Linear Perspective

A flip-book is an example of what?

• Phi Phenomenon

• Stroboscopic Movement

• Perceptual Constancy

• Perceptual Adaptation

The prism glasses, created by George Stratton, is an example of what?

• Perceptual Adaptation

• Perceptual Constancy

• Phi Phenomenon

• Stroboscopic Movement