CH 4: Sensation / Perception

Review Game:

Please select a Team.

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1. The Psychos

2. Freud Droids

3. The brain trust

4. The 6th sense

5. The Masters of Illusion

6. Those that are developmentally ahead

7. Pavlov’s Doggs

8. The authoritarian parents

Tasting a peanut butter sandwich is ______; remembering that you hate the taste of a peanut

butter sandwich is ______.

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1. Sensation; sensation

2. Perception; perception

3. Sensation; perception

4. Perception; Sensation

5. None of the above is correct

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This process is responsible for the conversion of physical energy into neural

impulses.

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1. Transduction

2. Plasticity

3. Absolute threshold

4. Psychophysics

5. Adaptation

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Nerve impulses that carry information about the external world travel along ____ to specialized processing areas in

the brain.

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1. Vestibular canals

2. Nerve Endings

3. Sensory pathways

4. Olfactory epithelium

5. Photoreceptors

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The great smell of baked goods is more powerful when you first enter a bakery than when you have

been there for a while is because of:

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1. Sensory Adaptation

2. Just noticeable difference

3. Weber’s Law

4. Closure

5. Subliminal messaging

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If you are able to taste one teaspoon of salt in a bucketful of hot buttered popcorn, this amount is above your:

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1. Difference threshold

2. Equilibrium

3. Vestibular sense

4. Olfaction

5. Absolute threshold

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The blind spot refers to the region of the eye at which the ______ exit(s) the eye:

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1. Blood vessels

2. Cones

3. Optic nerve

4. Retina

5. Bipolar cells

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Snapping your fingers causes the surrounding air to:

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1. Move in circles

2. Lose an electrical charge

3. Vibrate

4. Gain moisture

5. Implode

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The pure sound that is produced when you strike a tuning fork has the physical properties of:

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1. Timbre and pitch

2. Frequency and amplitude

3. Volume and loudness

4. Loudness and speed

5. Key and intensity

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Place the following in the correct order concerning how a message travels through

the ear.

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1. Tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, basilar membrane, cochlea, auditory nerve

2. Tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve

3. Hammer/anvil/stirrup, tympanic membrane, cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve

4. Cochlea, Basilar membrane, tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, auditory nerve

5. Tympanic membrane, cochlea, hammer/anvil/stirrup, basilar membrane, auditory nerve

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Place theory argues that sounds of different frequencies induce vibration in different

areas of the:

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1. Hammer

2. Basilar membrane

3. Auditory nerve

4. Temporal lobe

5. Tympanic membrane

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Loudness is determined by a sound wave’s:

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1. Pitch

2. Quality

3. Amplitude

4. Frequency

5. Speed

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The receptors for body position and movement are located:

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1. In the parietal cortex

2. In the inner ear

3. In the outer layer of the skin

4. Within the corpus callosum

5. Within the spinal cord

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In bottom up processing, the resulting perception is determined by:

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1. Stimulus features

2. Our expectations

3. Our current emotions

4. What others tell us

5. Other environmental cues

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Using previous experience to help you understand a similar new situation describes:

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1. Location constancy

2. Closure

3. The law of common fate

4. Bottom-up processing

5. Top-down processing

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As a car gets closer to you, you understand that it isn’t growing larger. This is primarily due to:

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1. Perceptual constancy

2. Conservation

3. Recognition

4. Perceptual ambiguity

5. The law of Pragnanz

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The concept of ______ explains why a shirt looks the same shade of orange in dim light or in

sunlight.

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1. Closure

2. Color Adaptation

3. Trichromatic theory

4. Color constancy

5. Olfaction

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Illusions are more likely in each of the following conditions EXCEPT when:

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1. Familiar patterns are absent

2. Patterns suggest conflicting meetings

3. Elements are combined in unusual ways

4. Information is missing

5. The stimulus is clear

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This term describes how our brain may see a stimuli and perceive movement when in

reality the stimuli may be stationary:

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1. Experience-based inference

2. The artificial intelligence approach

3. Environmental adaptation

4. Gestalt psychology

5. Top-down processing

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Some optical illusions utilize this concept when multiple images or objects are seen in the same drawing or picture:

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1. Proximity

2. Illusory contour

3. Figure-ground

4. Ambiguity

5. Continuity

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While at a football game, you see a large group of people up in the stands. According to this theory, you may assume that the people sitting next to each other in the stands know

each other.

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1. Proximity

2. Similarity

3. Figure-ground

4. Continuity

5. Common fate

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•Throw Back Questions!!!!

•These are from CH 1,2,3

The school of thought that investigates the connection between stimuli and responses is:

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1. Psychodynamic

2. Humanistic

3. Behaviorism

4. Cognition

5. Socio-cultural

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The independent variable:

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1. Is what one is trying to measure in a study

2. Must be testable

3. Is the condition that the researcher manipulates

4. Is the group that receives no treatment

5. Is the group that receives treatment

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“Fight or Flight” behavior is associated with:

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1. The parasympathetic nervous system

2. Central Nervous System

3. Sympathetic nervous system

4. The somatic nervous system

5. Interneurons

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Which is the correct sequence of action potential?

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1. Cell body, axons, dendrites, axon terminals

2. Axons, dendrites, axon terminals, cell body

3. Dendrites, cell body, axons, axon terminals

4. Axon terminals, axons, cell body, myelin sheath, dendrites

5. Cell body, chemical gates, axons, axon terminals

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