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WorksheetsSensation and Perception Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 33mins
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.
A person sees Object A in its entirety, but part of Object B’s outline is interrupted by Object A. According to the overlapping cue, what can that person conclude about these objects?
Object A is larger than Object B
Object A is smaller than Object B.
Object A is closer than Object B.
Object A is farther away than Object B.
The cilia located inside our cochlea help us to:
see
hear
smell
taste
touch
The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called...
retina
rods and cones
olfactory bulb
cochlea
Which of the following is a perception?
noting a change in temperature
hearing an increase in volume
recognizing an object as a car
viewing a decrease in brightness
A woman without sensory adaptation would
not see different colors
be continuously bothered by street noises outside her house
find it impossible to distinguish light and sound waves
not be able to distinguish between hot and cold sensations
Problems with the vestibular system would likely cause a person to
not recognize shapes or colors
stumble or fall
fail to identify sound locations
not be bothered by touching hot objects
You see the Statue of Liberty several times as you tour Manhattan. From all angles you know the approximate size of the statue. This is called
closure
interposition
constancy
convergence
This picture best illustrates which gestalt grouping principle?
closure
continuity
proximity
similarity
Proximity is the tendency to _________________.
perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background
complete figures that are incomplete
perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping
perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern
Continuity is the tendency to _________________.
perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background
complete figures that are incomplete
perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping
perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern
A sensory organ that detects information used in the perceptual process is
the ear
the eye
the skin
all of the above
Figures tend to be perceived as whole, complete objects, even if spaces or gaps exist in the representation, thus demonstrating the principle of:
Closure
Continuity
Proximity
Similarity
A mother is more likely to hear her baby crying than another child in the family is likely to hear the crying because...
sensory adaptation
transduction
signal detection theory
perceptual set
Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by
evolutionary psychologists
behaviorists
Gestalt psychologists
John Locke
Once light enters the eye, the physical energy is not converted into a neural message until it reaches the sensory receptors located on the
retina
lens
cornea
optic nerve
Which statement is false regarding sensation and perception.
These terms refer to the same concept.
Sensation refers to how we take in information form our environment.
Perception refers to how sensory information is organized and interpreted.
Sensation and perception processes work together for us to make sense of our world.
A binocular cue that allows for depth perception when images from the two eyes differ
Relative size
Color Constancy
Linear perception
Retinal Disparity
A sound is often detected by one ear more intensely and a fraction of a second earlier than it is detected by the other ear. These cues help individuals determine the
pitch of the sound wave
timbre of the sound wave
frequency of the sound wave
location of the source
Tonya got her braces off and was disappointed when none of her friends noticed when they went out that night. This is an example of
absolute threshold
change blindness
bottom up processing
inattentional blindness
A Gestalt pattern is...
when your brain organizes bits and pieces into a meaningful whole
notices the differences between two stimuli
makes sense of binocular cues to make an inference
notices the weakest amount of a stimuli
Convergence is...
a monocular cue when less overlapping shows you something is closer
a binocular cue that shows items closer to you moving more
a binocular cue where your eyes turn inwards as something gets closer to you
__________ is the detection of stimuli.
Perception
Sensation
__________ involves selecting, organizing, and interpreting stimuli.
Sensation
Perception
The absolute threshold and the difference threshold pertain to __________.
Perception
Sensation
Seeing an image is an example of perception.
True
False
When you and a friend look at an optical illusion, she sees a duck and you see a rabbit. Your different interpretations are examples of __________.
Perception
Sensation
Your eyes, ears, nose, skin, and taste buds are your __________ organs.
Sense
Perception
The number of taste buds ____ with age.
increases
decreases
stabilises
remains the same
Taste is most dependent on
the sense of vision.
the sense of smell.
what is eaten in the period immediately before birth.
what is eaten in the period immediately after birth.
A white shirt looks just as white when you are ironing in conditions of artificial light as it does when you hang it on the clothes line in sunlight. This is an example of the effect of
brightness constancy.
binocular cues.
figure–ground organisation.
similarity.
Information processing that draws on expectations and experiences to interpret incoming sensory information. Starts with big picture, works to details.
Sensation
Perception
Bottom-up Processing
Top-Down Processing
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
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
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
Which of the following is the best example of kinesthesia?
Awareness of the smell of freshly brewed coffee.
Ability to feel pressure on your arm.
Ability to hear a softly ticking clock.
Ability to calculate where a kicked soccer ball will land from the moment it leaves your foot.
Awareness of the position of your arms when swimming the backstroke.
After staring at a green, black, and yellow “American flag” for about a minute, an individual will see a red, white, and blue flag afterimage. This is best explained by
trichromatic theory
opponent-process theory
frequency theory
phi phenomenon
Individuals who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their
cones
rods
optic nerve
occipital lobe
Which of the following is NOT a Gestalt principle of perceptual organization?
Similarity
Intensity
Continuity
Closure
