Sensation & Perception

Question 1

The passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

The active process of selecting,organizing and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

Process where by sensory organs absorb energy from a physical stimulus in the environment,sensory receptors convert this energy into neural impulses and send them to the brain

Answer 3

Transduction

Question 4

The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience

Answer 4

Pyschophysics

Question 5

Who said pyschophysics is the stydy of physical energy stimulation of the sensory organs which resulted in meaningful psychological experience

Answer 5

Sternberg

Question 6

The level of energy that a stimulus must-have inorder for an organism to perceive it

Answer 6

Threshold

Question 7

The minimum amount of energy required for an organism to detect a stimulus

Answer 7

Absolute threshold

Question 8

The law which states that noticing a change depends on the proportion by which the stimulus has changed

Answer 8

First law of pyschophysics

Question 9

The minimum amount of stimulus intensity change needed to produce a noticeable change

Answer 9

Difference threshold

Question 10

What is the range of wavelength that human can detect?

Answer 10

350 and 750 nanometers

Question 11

Sternberg defined an iris as?

Answer 11

Circular band muscle that make the pupil bigger or smaller

Question 12

The route that light travels in the eyea

Answer 12

Light hits the cornea of the eye

It passes through the pupil

Question 13

Rods enable us to see?

Answer 13

Enable us to see low light as they are sensitive to picking up black and white but not colours

Question 14

What are cones?

Answer 14

Photoreceptor cell that pick up colours and function best in bright light

Question 15

The 3 factors that are involved in seeing colour

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Hue-determined by wavelengths of light

Saturation-determined by how pure the colour appears or how much combined with white

Brightness - determined by the amplitude of the light wave, which is the amount of light we see coming from the wavelengths

Question 16

What is the phi phenomenon?

Answer 16

The illusion of movement from presenting stimuli in rapid succession

Question 17

Gestalt’psychologist set of principles

Answer 17

Proximity- these objects closest together are perceived as belonging together
Similarity- things that look the same are grouped together
Closure- people close or ignore the gaps in objects to form a meaningful whole
Continuity- tendency to see pattern and therefore perceive things as belonging together identify form some type of continuous pattern

Question 18

Any deficit of perception is called?

Answer 18

Agnosia

Question 19

When people fail to recognise all types of visual objects

Answer 19

Visual-object agnosia

Question 20

A Type of agnosia where people cannot recognise faces

Answer 20

Prosopagnosia

Question 21

Another word to describe perpetual set is?

Answer 21

Schemas