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Topic 0: Sensation and Perception

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Practice Test

This activity contains 36 questions.

	Visual perception is accomplished in ___ stage(s).   two one three four five

	Fechner is credited with the founding of the study of ___.   sensation perception neuroscience psychophysics behaviorism

	A JND is a kind of ___.   operation error methodology threshold barrier

	Barb thinks that she heard a noise, even though it really didn't occur. Consistent with signal detection theory, Barb had a(n) ___.   correct rejection hit miss error false alarm

	___ refers to the height of the peaks in a light wave.   Accommodation Transduction Frequency Wavelength Amplitude

	Your ___ is (are) a sheet of tissue at the back of your eye.   iris pupil fovea cones retina

	After about 30 minutes in the dark, you're about ___ times more sensitive to light than you are during full daylight.   100,000 1,000,000 1,000 100 10,000

	___ refers to how deep a color appears.   Lightness Hue Intensity Saturation Brightness

	Yellow inhibits the perception of ___.   black blue green brown red

	Since Dan has difficulty in focusing on distant objects, then he likely suffers from ___.   myopia astigmatism hypermetropia color blindness cataracts

	When figure and ground are similar, the figure is said to be ___.   identical unimportant extreme camouflaged irrelevant

	The Gestalt principle of ___ suggests that marks that form a single shape tend to be grouped together.   proximity similarity good form closure continuity

	The artist ___ made extensive use of ambiguous figure-ground relationships.   Kahlo Picasso Escher Monet Chagall

	The difference between the images striking the retinas of the two eyes is called ___.   binocular cues stereopsis binocular disparity texture gradients perceptual constancy

	The relative size and spacing of the bricks in a street would be an example of ___.   foreshortening occlusion cues motion parallax texture gradient motion cues

	The phi phenomenon was particularly important with the advent of ___.   airplanes microwaves computers cars movies

	If you were to experience synesthesia, then you'd probably experience ___.   ambivalent attitudes towards the stimuli differentiating ambiguous stimuli blurry vision more than one perception for a given stimuli multiple perceptions from multiple stimuli

	Bottom-up processing is akin to   playing baseball. clicking through television channels. falling dominoes. falling off a bike. playing an instrument.

	Even though the bottom light on a stoplight really is bluish green, you perceive it as green. This is due to your ___.   divided attention categorical spatial relations pop-out ability selective attention perceptual set

	___ allows you to pick out a particular characteristic, object, or event.   Divided attention Retinal disparity Pop-out Selective attention General attention

	Subliminal perception refers to   perception of events outside awareness. perception of subtle, but noticeable, events. perception of complex stimuli. the failure to perceive overt clues. the incorrect assumption that one has been shown a certain stimuli.

	While swimming in the ocean, Jill experiencing an accident such that she broke her eardrum. As such, she probably experiences ___.   nerve deafness tonotopic organization conduction deafness a speech segmentation problem tinnitus

	When you deconstruct the "Iloveyou" into "I love you," you are dealing with ___.   the cocktail party phenomenon dichotic listening categorical perception the speech segmentation problem absolute pitch

	The cocktail party phenomenon specifically centers around our sensitivity to hearing ___.   our name events of interest to us very provocative words random chatter the name of our any of our close others

	Women are typically sensitive to smell   once they give birth. once they are post-menopausal. when they are in love. during all instances. when they are ovulating.

	Attention is limited in its ability to filter out information.    True  False

	Feminine faces are generally viewed as attractive for men only.    True  False

	Sound is caused by waves of molecules, but the waves themselves are not sound.    True  False

	In deciding whether the first three notes of "Three Blind Mice" go up or down, you probably evoked auditory imagery.    True  False

	Female pheromones can attract men.    True  False

	Your taste buds are only located on your tongue.    True  False

	You generally cannot taste something unless it can be at least partially dissolved by your saliva.    True  False

	Your kinesthetic sense registers the movement and position of your limbs.    True  False

	Summarize the two key concepts that explain how signals are missed or detected.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	State and summarize the five Gestalt laws of organization.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Briefly summarize how we can deal with pain.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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