Sensation and Perception Review

An individual’s ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded room and still be able to pay attention to someone calling their name at a distance is called

• auditory localization

• deep processing

• divided attention

• the cocktail party effect

Alice is shopping with her daughter when she hears the word “mom.” Alice answers, only to realize that the sales clerk said “ma’am” to a customer. This inaccurate perception can be attributed to

• context effects

• the Müller-Lyer illusion

• Weber’s law

• figure-ground organization

Ana injured her eye in an accident and has to wear a patch over the eye while it heals. Which of the following cues would she best be able to use to make judgments about the distance objects are from her?

• Convergence

• Binocular disparity

• Interposition

• Similarity

Ana is instructed by her doctor to wear a patch over one eye while an infection heals. While wearing the patch, Ana will lose her ability to use which of the following depth perception cues?

• Relative size

• Texture gradient

• Linear perspective

• Retinal disparity

While attending a concert, Anthony finds that he can clearly recognize the melody coming from the lead violin above all the other instruments playing in the orchestra, even though the other instruments may be louder. Gestalt psychologists would explain Anthony’s ability using the principle of

• Figure-ground

• Closure

• Simplicity

• Constancy

Depth perception cues that require both eyes are called

• Accommodation

• Binocular cues

• Conduction

• Consonance

The process of converting incoming physical energy into a neural code that can be processed is called

• Transduction

• Sensory threshold

• Sensory adaptation

• Transferred excitation

Our ability to see a soccer ball in the image provided is a result of the Gestalt principle of

• closure

• Hammer, anvil, and stirrup

• Auditory nerve

• Temporal lobe

The ability to see a cube in the diagram above is best explained by which of the following?

• The resting potential of neurons in the optic nerve

• Gestalt principles of closure

• The inverted and reversed image that a visual stimulus produces on the retina

• The opponent process theory of vision

Luz, a math major, sees the drawing above as a Venn diagram. Her brother, an art major, sees it as two circles. The difference in perception is an example of

• Synesthesia

• Perceptual set

• Visual agnosia

• How expectations change perceptions