
Unit 4 Notes Sensation and Perception
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9th - 12th Grade

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory inputs into something meaningful called?
Transduction
Sensory adaptation
Perception
Absolute threshold
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing, looking at the raw stimuli and making an assumption of what it should be?
Top-down processing
Bottom-up processing
Perceptual set
Transduction
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on our experience and expectations?
Bottom-up processing
Sensory adaptation
Perceptual set
Top-down processing
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular light, sound, pressure, taste, or odor called?
Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
Sensory adaptation
Absolute threshold
Perceptual set
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) also known as?
Difference threshold
Absolute threshold
Weber's law
Signal detection theory
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
According to Weber's law, two stimuli must differ by what for an average person to perceive a difference?
A constant amount
A constant proportion
A variable proportion depending on the stimulus
A variable amount depending on the stimulus
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What happens during sensory adaptation?
We become more aware of a stimulus that does not change
Our nerve cells fire more frequently
We become less aware of a stimulus that does not change
We perceive the world exactly as it is
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