Perception quiz

After wearing a pair of glasses for a while, you probably can’t feel them in contact with your skin. This is evidence of:

• natural analgesics

• kinesthesia

• adaptation

• synthesis

In the eye, the ______ focuses light on the ______.

• iris; lens

• lens; retina

• lens; pupil

• pupil; cornea

Decibels are a measurement of ______.

• the intensity of a sound

• the pitch of a sound

• the loudness of a sound

• none of the above

When you are able to focus on a conversation with your friend with a television set on in the background you are practicing ______.

• sensory adaptation

• perceptual set

• inattentional blindness

• selective attention

The process of receiving information from the environment is called:

• sensation

• perception

• synthesis

• proprioception

Using preexisting knowledge to interpret incoming sensory information

• Top down processing

• Experiential processing

• Bottoms up processing

• Environmental processing

The _____ is the major instrument for hearing?

• retina

• olfactory bulb

• cochlea

• optic nerve

Sometimes teachers hear that a particular student has been a discipline problem for other teachers. This could cause certain expectations about that student’s behavior and the teacher may be more likely to interpret the student’s behavior a certain way because of those expectations. This way of judging behavior is being influenced by:

• sensation

• sensory adaptation

• bottom-up processing

• top-down processing

While judging wings at a local festival James could not differentiate between Paul and John’s wing sauce. The difference between the wings is below James’:

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• receptor threshold

• signal detection

You look in the sky and see two jetliners that you know are of equal size, yet one appears to be much larger. Because of your knowledge of _______, you will assume that the smaller jetliner is farther away.

• linear perspective

• relative size

• perceptual gradient

• evoked potentials