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WorksheetsQuiz on Sensation and Perception
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 13mins
_______ is the window to the world and _______ interpreting what comes into your window.
Perception; sensation
Sensation; perception
Reception; transduction
Transduction; interpretation
________ is the process where light waves reach your eyes or sound waves reach your ears.
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
T/F. "Signal" in signal reception or transduction processes refer to a physical stimulus such as an object in the environment.
True
False
T/F. A "stimulus" is any object, event, person, or just anything that is received by the senses and creates a reaction.
True
False
Since the brain cannot directly organize chemicals coming in to your nose and tongue, these are translated into neural impulse. This process is called:
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
Since light waves and sound waves cannot be interpreted directly by the brain, these are converted into neural impulse called _______.
Consciousness
Action potential
Electrostatic force
Saltatory conduction
While looking at this letter "W", your brain recognizes this as four black lines that are joined at the bottom and on the top. This process of combining the raw materials is called:
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
In the image above, your brain combines the random black spots and recognizes the image of a dog. This process is called:
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
In the image above, your brain identifies these black a collection of black shapes. What is this process of combining raw materials but without assigning meaning to them yet?
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
When light strikes the retina, the specialized cells are activated converting the light waves into a neural impulse. This process is called:
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
In broad terms, the areas in the brain where signal organization occurs are often described as _____.
Sensory association cortices
Primary sensory cortices
Corpus callosum
Prefrontal cortex
In broad terms, the areas of the brain associated with creating meaning and interpreting raw sensations are identified as:
Primary sensory cortices
Sensory association cortices
Cingulate cortex
Cerebellum
_______ is the process of physical stimulus entering the sensory organ.
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
_____ is the process of combining neural signal into an interpretable message.
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
_____ is the process of transforming physical stimulus into a neural signal.
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
_____ is the process of assigning meaning to the organized signal based on memory and modules.
Signal reception
Signal transduction
Signal organization
Signal interpretation
_____ is the minimum amount of sensory stimulation that can be detected 50% of the time.
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
Weber's Law
Sensory adaptation
You are able to taste a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in 2 gallons. Any more water or any less sugar would not register in your sense of taste. This is an example of:
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
Weber's Law
Sensory adaptation
_____ observed that the JND for all the senses depends on a proportion or percentage of change rather than a fixed amount of change.
Max Wertheimer
BF Skinner
Sigmund Freud
Ernst Weber
The image above shows the transformation of McDonalds logo. The smallest amount of change in the logo detectable by human perception is referred to as:
Sensory adaptation
Weber's Law
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
_____ refers to the decreased responsiveness to a stimuli due to constant stimulation.
Sensory adaptation
Weber's Law
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
You do not always feel your wristwatch or bracelet all the time because your body is used to the feeling of something in your wrist and tends to put it below awareness. This is called:
Sensory adaptation
Weber's Law
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
Which of the following are chemical senses? Check all that apply.
Visual sense
Smell sense
Touch sense
Hearing sense
Taste sense
Which of the following are physical/ energy senses? Check all that apply.
Visual sense
Smell sense
Touch sense
Hearing sense
Taste sense
In the image above, letter E is the part of the eye that opens up or closes down the pupil is called:
Lens
Retina
Cornea
Iris
In the image above, letter C is the part of the back of the eye where the photoreceptors are located. This is called:
Lens
Retina
Cornea
Iris
In the image above, letter B is a part of the back of the eye where vision is the sharpest and most sensitive to detail. This is called:
Blind spot
Fovea
Retina
Optic nerve
T/F. The blind spot is blind because there are no photoreceptor cells in it because it is where the blood vessels and the optic nerve enter the eyes.
True
False
T/F. We do not notice the blind spot in our every day vision because the eye moves constantly around filling in the blanks in our vision.
True
False
_____ are sensitive to light (brightness) while ____ are sensitive to color.
Cones; rods
Rods; cones
Both are cones
Both are rods
The organ for transduction in our visual sensory system is the:
Lens
Photoreceptor cells
Optic nerve
Iris
T/F. Information from the left visual field go the the left side of the brain while information from the right visual field go to the right side of the brain.
True
False
Which lobe of the brain is associated with the function of visual sensation and perception?
Frontal lobe
Temporal lobe
Occipital lobe
Parietal lobe
______ is the part of the brain that is associated with the function of combining visual sensory information recognizable images.
Primary visual cortex
Visual association cortex
Cingulate cortex
Prefrontal cortex
_____ is the part of the brain that is associated with the function of interpreting visual information into meaningful images.
Primary visual cortex
Visual association cortex
Cingulate cortex
Prefrontal cortex
