Sensation and Perception 1

Texting and driving is a major cause of car accidents in the modern day. Which academic term that we discussed defines this inability to focus on texting and driving at simultaneously?

• Perceptual Set

• Selective Attention

• Absolute Threshold

• Change Blindness

Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?

• Somatosensory Cortex

• Frontal Lobe

• Thalamus

• Medulla

Being able to see a candle flame 30 miles away on a clear night is the

• absolute threshold for human vision
• difference threshold for human vision.
• perceived threshold for human vision
• ratio threshold for human vision

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

• Absolute threshold

• range threshold

• difference threshold

• just-noticeable difference

The process of bringing meaning to the raw data your senses take in is called ________.

• perception

• sensation

• adaptation

• habituation

Although Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.

• accommodation level

• absolute threshold

• tolerance level

• gustatory saturation level

• adaptation level

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of other's behavior. This best illustrates the impact of:

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation

If you move your watchband up your inch or so, you will feel it only for a few moments. This best illustrates:

• parallel processing
• accommodation
• sensory adaptation
• Weber's Law

What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Illusion

• Sensory adaptation

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.

• Sensation

• Perception

• Illusion

• Sensory adaptation