PSY CHP.5

Question 1

The detection of signals in the environment by sensory receptors in the body

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

The organization and interpretation of sensory information

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

Which theory studies the extent to which we notice things based on a sensory process and a decision process?

Answer 3

Signal detection theory

Question 4

J.N.D measures how much change is necessary for us to notice change has taken place

Answer 4

Just noticeable difference

Question 5

minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a sensory input

Answer 5

Absolute threshold

Question 6

Attention focuses on process such as sensory blank and blank attention

Answer 6

Sensory adaptation, Selective attention

Question 7

Explain the the direction of processing
And also what kind of processing is this?
1. Stimulus blank
2. Blank receptors
3. Blank impulses
4. B_______
Blank up processing

Answer 7

1. Stimulus energy
2. Sensory receptors
3. Neutral impulses
4. Brain
   Bottom up processing

Question 8

Blank processing can drive how we process perceptual information

Answer 8

Top down

Question 9

Blank may occur due to a breakdown in the bottom up and top down process

Answer 9

Synaesthesia

Question 10

Blank come by virtue of having two eyes

Answer 10

Binocular cues

Question 11

Blank is the term for the difference between the images that reach each eye

Answer 11

Retinal disparity

Question 12

Blank can be perceived with only one eye and reflect information in the environment

Answer 12

Monocular cues

Question 13

There are two types of information we use to perceive depth

Answer 13

Binocular Cues
Monocular Cues

Question 14

The Blank psychologist described various different principles of perceptual organization

Answer 14

Gestalt
Similarity
Continuity
Proximity
Closure

Question 15

Blank come by the virtue of having two eye

Answer 15

Binocular cues

Question 16

Blank is the term for the difference between the images that reach each eye

Answer 16

Retinal disparity

Question 17

Blank refers to the fact that a sound coming from the right side of your body is more intense at your right ear than at your left ear because of the attenuation of the sound wave as it passes through your head

Answer 17

Interaural level difference

Question 18

The conversion from sensory stimulus energy to action potential is known as blank

Answer 18

transduction

Question 19

It is also possible for us to get message that are presented below the threshold for conscious awareness these are called blank

Answer 19

subliminal message

Question 20

the blank has a higher concentration of receptors

Answer 20

fovea

Question 21

the blank theory of pitch perception suggests that different portions of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies.

Answer 21

place

Question 22

specialized photoreceptor that works well in low light conditions

Answer 22

rod

Question 23

visible part of the ear that protrudes from the head

Answer 23

pinna

Question 24

specialized photoreceptor that works best in bright light condition and detects color

Answer 24

cone

Question 25

deafness from birth

Answer 25

congential deafness

Question 26

organizing our perceptions into complete objects rather than series of parts

Answer 26

closure