Sensation and Perception

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

Physiological process involving sensory receptors detecting stimuli from the 5 senses

Question 2

Reception

Answer 2

Body’s ability to detect stimuli in environment

Question 3

Transduction

Answer 3

Converting stimuli into electrochemical messages

Question 4

Transmission

Answer 4

Sending information as transmitting impulse along neurons to brain for processing

Question 5

Perception

Answer 5

Mental process of organising and interpreting sensory stimuli into meaningful form

Question 6

Selection

Answer 6

Filtering information to determine what to ignore and what to process further

Question 7

Organising

Answer 7

Grouping features to make a whole (GESTALT)

Question 8

Interpretation

Answer 8

Brain interprets wholes and gives them meaning