Introduction

Question 1

D: sensation

Answer 1

a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to us or comes into contact with the body

Question 2

D: perception

Answer 2

the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses and the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.

Question 3

D: Distal Stimulus

Answer 3

• the physical object in the environment

Question 4

D: Proximal Stimulus

Answer 4

• information about the distal stimulus is received by the sensory receptor cells . The proximal stimulus is a representation of the distal stimulus

Question 5

D: Transduction

Answer 5

Transduction is the transformation of environmental physical energy into electrical energy in the nervous system

Question 6

D: Neural Processing

Answer 6

How electrical signals are transmitted from one neuron to the next

Question 7

Draw the perceptual process

Answer 7

check introdution page

Question 8

What does the physiological approach to studying perception do & how?

Answer 8

Looks at what’s going on in the brain through anatomy tests such as fMRI, EEG, micro-stimulation or lesioning

Question 9

What does the psychophysical approach to studying perception do & how?

Answer 9

Looks at what we actually perceive, eg through changing parts of stimulus to find people’s thresholds

Question 10

2 Methods for testing thresholds

Answer 10

1: Method of adjustment - slowly changing a stimulus till someone can perceive something
2: Forced choice