Unit 3 Review: Sensation and Perception

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

• Absolute threshold

• range threshold

• difference threshold

• just-noticeable difference

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

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

• Optic Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Auditory (chochlear nerve)
• Sensory Nerve

Rather than saying a person is "colorblind," it would be more accurate to say that the person:

• has a blind spot
• lacks red- or green-sensitive cones
• is experiencing an overstimulation of the red-and green-sensitive cones
• has an excess of blue-sensitive cones

The sense or act of hearing

• Gustation

• Haptic Sense

• Olfaction

• Audition

 Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray and that work best in dim light.

• Bipolar Cells

• Feature Detectors

• Rods

• Cones

 The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.

• Kinesthesis

• Vestibular Sense

• Place Theory

• Haptic Sense

Clues about distance requiring two eyes.

• monocular depth cues
• place theory
• binocular depth cues

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

• Senstaion

• Perception

• Recognition

• Response system