Psychology Sensation and Perception

Each of your senses receives information from the environment, converts it into neural signals in a process called:

• Stimulus

• Difference Threshold

• Transduction

• Absolute Threshold

When the raw sensory stimulus activates a sensory receptor, we call this process:

• Sensation

• Perception

• Recognition

• Response system

Which defines perception?

• how we perceive different things

• how we interpret the information from the external world

• how we sense things from the external world

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation

• Perception

• Gestalt Awareness

• Sensory organization

Perceiving objects as unchanging, even as illumination and retinal images change

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual Adaptation

• Perceptual Constancy

• Sensory Adaptation

Principle that one sense may influence another.

• Parallel Processing

• Signal Detection Theory

• Extrasensory Perception

• Sensory Interaction

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of them time.

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Subliminal Threshold

• Weber's Law

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

• Selective attention

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual adaptation

• Habituation

The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment is known as:

• A) Sensation

• B) Perception

• C) Cognition

• D) Interpretation

Which of the following best describes the concept of 'absolute threshold'?

• A) The smallest detectable difference between two stimuli

• B) The minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time

• C) The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

• D) The conversion of stimulus energy into neural impulses