Sensation and Perception

Question 1

What is defined as the detection, like when you see, hear or smell something automatically?

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

What is defined as the interpretation or making sense of something that you experience?

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

What is defined as filtering through incoming sensations and is involuntary?

Answer 3

Sensory Reduction, like mother hearing a baby crying in her sleep and not a train nearby.

Question 4

What is defined as the psychological reaction to something in the physical world like a sight, sound, smell or taste of something?

Answer 4

Psychophysics

Question 5

Psychologists take what two types of thresholds?

Answer 5

Absolute Thresholds and Difference Thresholds

Question 6

What type of threshold is the minimum amount of stimulus required for detection?

Answer 6

Absolute threshold, like the faintest sound a person can pick up during a hearing test

Question 7

What type of threshold is the just noticeable difference between 2 similar stimuli?

Answer 7

JND or Difference Threshold, like a wine taster knowing the difference in very similar wines.

Question 8

What is defined as the diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus?

Answer 8

Sensory Adaptation

Question 9

Tough transparent layer of the eye

Answer 9

cornea

Question 10

opening of the eye that constricts and dilates

Answer 10

pupil

Question 11

colored part of the eye

Answer 11

iris

Question 12

the part of the eye that focuses light (accommodation)

Answer 12

lens

Question 13

The back part of the eye containing photoreceptors.

Answer 13

retina

Question 14

What are the 2 photoreceptors in the retina?

Answer 14

rods (dim lights) and cones (color and fine detail)

Question 15

What is the tympanic membrane in the ear?

Answer 15

eardrum

Question 16

what are decibels in the ear?

Answer 16

units of sounds

Question 17

what is the faintest detectable sound?

Answer 17

1 decibel

Question 18

What is the amount of decibels for a normal conversation?

Answer 18

60 decibels

Question 19

At what amount of decibels would cause hearing damage?

Answer 19

90 decibels

Question 20

What is olfaction?

Answer 20

Smell

Question 21

What is audition?

Answer 21

hearing/ear

Question 22

How many different smells can humans detect?

Answer 22

10,000

Question 23

What is the point of taste gustation?

Answer 23

Function, to keep you from danger.

Question 24

What is defined as false or misleading perceptions?

Answer 24

Illusions

Question 25

What is defined as focusing on what you choose to pay attention to?

Answer 25

selective attention, like the cocktail party effect.

Question 26

What is defined as the tendency to ignore an unchanging environmental stimulus?

Answer 26

selective habituation

Question 27

What is ignoring a post-it note you’ve had up for a week or disregarding a compliment from a long time partner an example of?

Answer 27

selective habituation

Question 28

What are the list of guidelines that help humans organize their perceptions?

Answer 28

The Gestalt Principles

Question 29

What Gestalt Principle is defined as a figure being perceived as separate from the background?

Answer 29

Figure from Ground

Question 30

What Gestalt Principle is defined as the tendency to perceive a complete unit, even where there are gaps?

Answer 30

Closure

Question 31

What is defined as the perception of an object that remains the same despite changes in stimulus?

Answer 31

Constancies: size, shape, and color. like knowing the size of a car remains the same no matter how close or far you are from its view.

Question 32

What is defined as the ability to judge a distance and perceive 3 dimensionally?

Answer 32

Depth Perception

Question 33

How is Depth Perception measured?

Answer 33

By height, weight and distance

Question 34

What are the 2 cues to perceive depth?

Answer 34

Monocular (one eye) and Binocular (2 eyes)

Question 35

What does the cues to perceive depth mean?

Answer 35

Types of convergence

Question 36

What does “frame of reference” mean?

Answer 36

context clues: tall, buff, strong man assumed to be basketball player but is really a librarian.

Question 37

What is defined as the readiness to perceive in a particular way?

Answer 37

Perceptual Set, like answering the phone thinking 100% it is your cheating ex calling you back.