Sensation1

What is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment?

• Psychophysics

• Perception

• Sensation

• Signal detection theory

Which type of processing starts at the entry level and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information?

• Psychophysics

• Bottom-up processing

• Signal detection theory

• Top-down processing

What is the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them?

• Perception

• Psychophysics

• Sensation

• Absolute threshold

What is the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time?

• Absolute threshold

• Signal detection theory

• Psychophysics

• Sensation

What theory predicts when we will detect the presence of a faint stimulus amid background stimulation?

• Top-down processing

• Perception

• Bottom-up processing

• Signal detection theory

What is the term for stimuli that are below our absolute thresholds?

• Psychophysics

• Subliminal

• Sensation

• Perception

In a typical experiment, what is quickly flashed to prime the response to a later question?

• Emotionally positive scenes

• Neutral scenes

• Negative scenes

• Masking stimulus

What phenomenon is illustrated when we feel what we do not know and cannot describe?

• Subliminal sensation

• Absolute threshold

• Signal detection theory

• Psychophysics

What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events?

• Signal detection theory

• Psychophysics

• Perception

• Sensation

What is the term for information processing that occurs automatically, out of sight, off the radar screen of our conscious mind?

• Subliminal sensation

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Psychophysics