Test bank for sensation and perception 9th edition e bruce goldstein

---TEST BANK
Sensation and Perception,10th Edition
by Goldstein, Cacciamani, Chapter 1 to 15

,Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception. b b




2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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4. Cortical Organization. b b




5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. b b b




6. Visual Attention.
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7. Taking Action. b




8. Perceiving Motion. b




9. Perceiving Color. b




10. Perceiving Depth and Size. b b b




11. Sound and the Perception of Pitch.
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12. Auditory Localization, the Auditory Scene, and Music.
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13. Speech Perception. b




14. The Cutaneous Senses.
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15. The Chemical Senses.
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,Test Bank—Chapter 1: Introduction to Perception
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MULTIPLE CHOICE b




1. “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ease
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a. were developed by computer scientists in the 1960s.
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b. were developed by computer scientists in the 1970s.
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c. were developed by computer scientists in the 1990s.
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d. have yet to be developed.
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2. Which of the following is an application of perception research?
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a. Developing speech recognition c. Devising robots that can “see.”
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b. Treating hearing problems.
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3. Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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d. All of these.
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4. The study of perception can overlap with
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a. medicine. c. philosophy.
b. computer science.
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5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual process?
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a. Stimuli c. Serendipity
b. Neural Processing
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6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons is
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called
a. refraction. c. reduction.
b. transduction.
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7. bb b __ __ is the step in the perceptual process that is analogous to an ATM withdrawal
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(pressure from button press becomes electrical energy then becomes a mechanical response
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bresulting in the dispensing of money).b b b b b


a. Knowledge c. Action
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8. The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is the
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a. transducedimage. b. environmental stimulus. b bbb b b



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, c. visual image.
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d. perception.
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