Unit 3 Perception and Sensation WEAK areas

You hear you mother in a crowded room because you are looking for her. Basically, we notice things based on how strong they are and on how much we're paying attention.

• signal detection

• sensory adaptation

• difference threshold

• sensory habituation

The retina is location

• B

• F

• H

• G

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Monocular cues

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(b) Binocular cues

• retinal disparity

• texture gradient

• linear perspective

• relative height

• convergence

• interposition

• motion parallax

Match the following

• optic nerve

• Transduction happens here for hearing

• retina

• This transmits visual signals to the occipital lobe

• cochlea

• Transduction happens here for vision

• fovea

• This transmits sounds to the temporal lobe

• auditory nerve

• location of sharpest vision (straight on)

Smell is not processed by the thalamus. It is processed in the

• corpus callosum

• cerebellum

• parietal lobe

• olfactory bulb

The fact we can read "THE CAT" despite the letters being messed up, is due to

• schemas

• selective attention

• context effects

• cultural effects

Look at the image. If I were to ask you if you saw the man in the image, you would probably recognize the man’s face right away. But if I had presented this image to you and asked you to identify the rat in the image, your perception of the drawing would have been totally different. This is due to

• stereotyping

• sensory transduction

• top down processing

• bottom up procesing

Photoreceptors in the eye are known as

• optical nerve

• cones and rods

• bipolar cells

• ganglion cells

Rods and cones are located where in the eye?

• retina

• lens

• optic nerve

• cornea

Amy arrives at a park that is located very close to a factory that produces bread. She immediately notices the strong odor of bread, but after a while she no longer detects it. This can best be explained by which of the following?

• accommodation

• sensory adaptation

• assimilation

• Weber's Law