Sensory Perception Quiz

Candace is at a Halloween party. One game asks partygoers to put their hand in a bowl and see if they can say what is inside. Candace puts her hand in the bowl and immediately can tell that there are peeled grapes in the bowl. What do you call her identification of the peeled grapes?

This has been studied most extensively and is the most important sense for humans.

• Taste

• Smell

• Correct answer: Vision

• Touch

“Getting used to” a sensory stimulus so that you no longer have the same reaction to it as you initially did is called

• Inattentional Blindness

• Correct answer: Sensory Adaptation

• Webbers Law

• Absolute Threshold

Decreased sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as

• Transduction

• Difference Threshold

• Correct answer: Sensory Adaptation

• Inattentional Blindness

This states that the amount of sensation a person needs to feel a difference is a constant.

• Sensory Adaptation

• Correct answer: Webbers Law

• Difference Threshold

• Absolut Threshold

A sentry on night duty notices a very soft noise and calls out for the thief to “Halt!” This is an example of:

• Murphys Law

• Difference Threshold

• An alert sentry

• Correct answer: Absolute Threshold

You help your friend look for her contact lens on her white kitchen floor. This is an example of:

• Correct answer: Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Murphys Law

• An impossible task

At a chili-tasking contest you are asked to try to identify which of the chili samples contains cinnamon. This is an example of:

• Murphys Law

• Difference Threshold

• Correct answer: Absolute Threshold

• Something only a Chef can do

A father takes his children to the playground. During the visit, a child starts to cry. Without looking, the father can tell that it is not his child’s cry. This is an example of:

• Absolute Threshold

• Murphys Law

• A good father

• Correct answer: Difference Threshold

It is late at night and you are trying to go to bed without waking your roommate. You want to find your favorite nightwear without turning on the light. After carefully and quietly opening your dresser drawer, you reach in and try to distinguish it from the four other things that are in the drawer. This is an example of:

• Absolute Threshold

• Correct answer: Difference Threshold

• Murphys Law

• A teenager coming home late