PSY CH 6 Sensation and Perception Practice Test

Which of the following is true about rods and cones?

• There are more cones in the retina than rods.
• Rods are photoreceptors, while cones are not
• Rods are sensitive to lower levels of light than cones.
• Rods are similar to color film and cones are similar to black-and-white film.

Human perception

• are always based entirely on current sensory information.
• can be improved by active involvement with one’s environment and experience.

• are never influenced by beliefs and expectations.
• do not develop in infants until they are about 7 or 8 months of age.

If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

• colors

• shapes

• sizes

• distant objects

When information is converted to neural messages they are called:

• Transduction

• Transportation

• Translucent

Top down processing refers to

• refers to the information coming from a height like top of a table

• refers to the use of contextual information in pattern recognition.

• refers to the information coming down from a height

Figure–ground relationships concern _________________.

• the tendency to perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete

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

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

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

early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures

• Gestalt Psychology
• subliminal messages
• motion parallax
• constancy

Which type of processing involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge and expectancies?

• bottom-up processing

• inside-out processing

• outside-in processing

• top-down processing

Which school of thinking in psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, similarity, proximity, the Law of Pragnanz, and principle of closure?

• Ruffinian

• Gestalt

• Pacinian

• Humanistic