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PY 101-Chapter 8-WHOLE: Quiz

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 54mins

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Class
Date
1.

Justine is at a lego factory watching the plastic being poured into the molds, and the pieces being stamped out for each character. This however is not as interesting as when she remembers playing with her completed legos. This experience most likely aligns with which school of psychological thought?

a)

Humanistic

b)

Gestalt

c)

Developmental

d)

Psychodynamic

e)

Functionalism

2.

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences is (a)   .

3.

The psychological study of questions such as the relationship between color and wavelength is called (a)   .

4.

The minimum amount of difference a person can detect between two stimuli is the (a)   .

5.

. (a)   are incorrect perceptions

6.

(a)   is the sense of movement and body position.

7.

The combination of two images into one is (a)   .

8.

A(n) (a)   is created when a stimulus activates a receptor.

9.

Advertisers sometimes use (a)   , which are brief auditory or visual stimuli presented below the absolute threshold so that there is less than a 50 percent chance that they will be perceived.

10.

The weakest amount of stimuli required to produce a sensation is called the (a)   .

11.

A body’s sense of balance is regulated by the (a)   inside the inner ear.

12.

The smallest amount of change in a sensation that you can detect is known as

a)

Difference Threshold

b)

Absolute Threshold

c)

Visual Threshold

d)

Auditory Threshold

13.

Sarah is given one 100-oz bottle and one 99-oz bottle. She says that they feel the same weight. Then, she is given a 100-oz bottle and a 97-oz bottle. This time, she notices a difference. This is an example of what?

a)

Difference Threshold

b)

Weber's Law

c)

Sensory Adaptation

d)

Conscious Awareness

14.

The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as

a)

the opponent-process theory.

b)

Weber's law.

c)

feature detection.

d)

sensory interaction.

e)

the difference threshold.

15.

The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the

a)

adaptation threshold.

b)

difference threshold.

c)

subliminal threshold.

d)

absolute threshold.

e)

change threshold.

16.

You would likely consistently stumble if you had a malfunction of your

a)

Vestibular System

b)

Retinal Disparity

c)

Perceptual Acuity

d)

Subliminal System

17.

The vestibular system is best described as

a)

a system of labyrinths in our head

b)

a system that allows us to learn to read

c)

a sensory system that is responsible for providing our brain with information about motion, head position, and spatial orientation

d)

a sensory system that allows us to hear clearly

18.

Perception ca be defined as-

a)

how we perceive different things

b)

how we interpret the information from the external world

c)

how we sense things from the external world

19.

What is Sensation?

a)

Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.

b)

refers to how the mind process information

c)

refers to how we store information

20.

If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

a)

colors

b)

shapes

c)

sizes

d)

distant objects

21.

Perception is...

a)

Interpretation of sensory information

b)

Feelings

c)

How we see things

d)

Information from our senses

22.
When our brain and eyes work together to determine what we are seeing
a)
optical illusions
b)
depth perception
c)
visual perception
d)
perceiving motion
23.

Sensation is

a)

The process through which we interpret sensory stimulation.

b)

Stimulation of sensory receptors and transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system

24.

This image can be seen as either a rabbit, looking to the right, or a duck looking to the left. The image is playing with you

a)

Sensation

b)

Perception

25.

Minimum amount of difference that can be detected between two stimuli/things/events

a)

Absolute threshold

b)

Difference threshold

c)

Sensory adaptation

d)

Gate theory

26.

In your eye, these are sensitive to brightness of light

a)

Rods

b)

Cones

c)

Trichromatic

d)

Dichromatic

27.

A brief message presented below the absolute threshold or perceived by someone’s mind without them being aware of it is called a

a)

Sensory Adaptation

b)

Gestalt Message

c)

Subliminal Message

d)

Sensory Blending