Sensation and Perception Review

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

The lowest stimuli intensity required for detection is the ______ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ______.

• absolute threshold; just noticeable difference

• base value; just noticeable difference

• response criterion; sensory constant

• just noticeable difference; absolute threshold

Similarity is the tendency to perceive _________________.

• objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• things that look similar as being part of the same group

• objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Proximity is the tendency to _________________.

• perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• complete figures that are incomplete

• perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Continuity is the tendency to _________________.

• perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• complete figures that are incomplete

• perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

What sense helps maintain balance?

• Vestibular

• Kinesthetic

• Proprioception

• Audition

• Olfaction

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

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

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

• Optic Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Auditory (chochlear nerve)
• Sensory Nerve