WorksheetsPsychology - Sensation & Perception
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is sensation?
refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.
refers to how the mind loses information
refers to how we store information
When the raw sensory stimulus activates a sensory receptor, we call this process:
Sensation
Perception
Recognition
Response system
Which defines perception?
how we perceive different things
how we interpret the information from the external world
how we sense things from the external world
Absolute threshold refers to
The maximum stimulation required to say anything
minimum usage of sense organs
The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus
What is Signal Detection theory?
Ability to detect various sounds and colors
Ability to focus on one stimulus and ignore others
Ability to see traffic signals
The word Gestalt means
Whole/shape/form
Psychonanalysis
mind
behaviour
Key elements of Gestalt psychology are
our mind fills in the gap
Mind seeks to avoid uncertainty
The whole is identified before the parts
all of the above
Which of the following are chemical senses?
touch
smell
taste
vision
hearing
If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see
colors
shapes
sizes
distant objects
Our sense of the position and movement of individual body parts is called
kinethesis
perception
sensation
retinal disparity
