Sensation And Perception

Question 1

Which are sensory receptors?

Answer 1

Eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin

Question 2

Perception

Answer 2

How the brain organizes information from our senses and translates it into something meaningful

Question 3

Types of perception?

Answer 3

Photoreception, mechanoreception, chemoreception

Question 4

Mechanoreception

Answer 4

Detection of pressure, vibration and movement. Perceived as touch, hearing, and equilibrium

Question 5

Photoreception

Answer 5

Detection as light perceived as sight

Question 6

Chemoreception

Answer 6

Detection of chemical stimuli, perceived as smell and taste

Question 7

Bottom up processing

Answer 7

Sensory receptors register information about external environment and send it to brain for interpretation. Data driven. Starts at the bottom of upside down triangle.

Question 8

What is sensation?

Answer 8

Process that activates sensory receptors and enables them to transmit signals to the brain

Question 9

Top down processing

Answer 9

We start with a larger object or idea before working our way to detailed information. Theory driven. Starts at top of upside down triangle.

Question 10

Gesalt’s principle

Answer 10

How we tend to organize visual elements into groups

Question 11

1. Similarity

Answer 11

Things that share visual characteristics such as shape size colour texture value or orientation will be grouped together.

Question 12

2. Proximity

Answer 12

When elements are placed close together, they’re seen as a group.

Question 13

3. Continuation

Answer 13

Occurs when the eye is compelled to move through one object and continue to another object

Question 14

4. Closure

Answer 14

Occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed

Question 15

5. Figure ground

Answer 15

Tendency to perceive one aspect of an event as the figure or foreground, and the other as the ground or background. Think optical illusions.