Sensation and Perception

The process of bringing meaning to the raw data your senses take in is called ________.

• perception

• sensation

• adaptation

• habituation

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

While waiting in line at Starbucks, Kramer was playing games on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of...

• inattentional blindness

• place theory

• blind spot

• feature detectors

• sensory adaptation

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

​ (a)   refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced; ​ (b)   refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor.

• Perception

• Sensation

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

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

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation

• Perception

• Gestalt Awareness

• Sensory organization

A sensation may be combined with other sensations and your past experience to yield a perception.

• True

• False

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information is known as ________.

• A) sensation

• B) perception

• C) adaptation

• D) transduction

Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation?

• A) Feeling your clothes on your skin all day

• B) Noticing a strong smell when you first enter a room, but not after a few minutes

• C) Hearing a constant buzzing sound

• D) Seeing a bright light and continuing to see it