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WorksheetsSensation and Perception Unit Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
1. The function of the lens is to
Locate an image
Focus an image on the retina
Combine the location and projection on the blind spot
Project an image on the cornea
The cones of the retina
are densely packed in an area called the fovea
are specialized for black and white sensations
function best in dim light
are not well specialized for fine detail
The fact that we see negative afterimages supports which theory of color vision?
Opponent-process
Trichomatic
Image formation
Weber's Law
As a door opens toward you, you perceive it as a rectangular door rather than going through actual image changes on the retina (from a rectangle to trapezoid). This is an example of
Perceptual closure
Shape constancy
Brightness constancy
Retinal disparity
A cheetah scrambling up a rocky slope in Montana is likely to be perceived as a mountain lion because
Perception is guided by expectations
Figure and ground have been confused
Contiguity is a powerful influence on perception
The setting provides an ideal camouflage
Veronica went into the hot tub, but her friends did not want to get in because they thought the water would be too hot. After a few minutes in the hot tub Veronica declared, “It was hot when I first got in, but now my body is used to it. Come on in!” Veronica’s body became accustomed to the water due to
Perceptual set
Absolute threshold
Selective attention
Sensory adaptation
What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?
Selective attention
Bottom-up processing
Top-down processing
Change blindness
Which of the following is most likely to influence our memory of a painful event?
The duration of the event
The intensity of pain at the end of the event
If the pain was biological, psychological, or social/cultural
If the pain can be treated with natural remedies of not
If a dog hears a whistle that a person cannot hear, this suggests that dogs and humans have different
kinesthesis systems.
Gestalt ratios.
absolute thresholds
vestibular systems.
If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see
colors
shapes
sizes
distant objects
Damage to the olfactory nerve might prevent a person from
seeing a traffic light change.
hearing birds chirp.
smelling freshly baked bread.
feeling the texture of
a curtain.
Sensation
opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye
the tendency to perceive certain objects the same way despite changing conditions
what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor
contains light-sensitive receptor cells
Absolute Threshold
the weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
filling in the gaps in what our senses tell us
what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor
organization of sensory information
In the human eye, rods are to _________, as cones are to ________.
light/ color
color/ light
monochromat/ dichromat
dichromat/ monochromat
lens/ iris
The phenomenon of color constancy best demonstrates that...
an object's perceived color is influenced by its surrounding objects
the retina has three types of color receptors
the brain processes information about color and shape simultaneously
quivering eye movements help to maintain the perception of color
color vision depends on pairs of opposing retinal processes
The process by which your ears convert sound waves to neural impulses is called...
sensory adaptation
accommodation
parallel processing
sensory introduction
Transduction
The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as...
opponent process theory
feature detector
sensory interaction
Weber's law
absolute threshold
a person typically fails to consciously perceive their own nose in their line of vision. This best illustrates...
subliminal perception
change blindness
cocktail party effect
selective attention
visual cliff
While waiting in line at Starbucks, Johnny Depp 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 are expecting an important text message, you are much more likely to notice the sound as soon as the message arrives. This best illustrates...
priming
signal detection theory
difference threshold
absolute threshold
Weber's law
What three primary colors of light are detected by your cones?
Green, red, and blue
Black, gray, and white
Blue, red, and yellow
Blue, green, and purple
Cyan, magenta, and yellow
