Chapter 3

Question 1

What are the five primary senses?

Answer 1

Vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

Question 2

Define adaptation

Answer 2

Adaptation is a physiological decrease in reactivity to a repeated stimulus.

Question 3

Define habituation

Answer 3

Habituation is a behavioral decrease in reactivity to a repeated stimulus.

Question 4

Eighty percent of subjects in a sleep deprivation study began to _____ after forty-eight hours.

Answer 4

Hallucinate

Question 5

Define perception

Answer 5

The organizing and elaboration of sensations into a meaningful whole

Question 6

In visual perception, individuals see what?

Answer 6

What they expect to see

Question 7

Is perception active or passive?

Answer 7

Active

Question 8

What are four rules of Gestalt psychology used to organize information?

Answer 8

Similarity, proximity, continuation, and closure.

Question 9

What do new Christians require in order to to adjust to a new lifestyle and values?

Answer 9

Active participation

Question 10

What four factors influence perception?

Answer 10

Past experience, situation, personal values, and expectation.

Question 11

What are three ways of making perception more veridical?

Answer 11

Multiple perspectives, realizing perception is progressive, and social interaction.