SENSATION AND PERCEPTION COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS

●● perception
Answer: the psychological process through which we interpret sensory
stimulation


●● absolute threshold
Answer: the weakest amount of a stimulus that can be sensed


●● difference threshold
Answer: the minimum amount of difference that can be detected
between two stimuli


●● sensory adaptation
Answer: the process by which we become more sensitive to weak
stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli


●● signal-detection theory
Answer: a method of distinguishing sensory stimuli that takes into
account not only the stimuli's strengths but also such variable elements
as the setting, your physical state, your mood, and your attitudes

, ●● pupil
Answer: the opening in the colored part of the eye


●● lens
Answer: the part of the eye that adjusts to the distance of objects by
changing its thickness


●● retina
Answer: the sensitive surface in the eye that acts like the film in a
camera...consisting of thousands of neurons


●● photoreceptors
Answer: neurons in the eye that are sensitive to light


●● iris
Answer: part of the eye defines the eyes color and determines the size
the pupil


●● cornea
Answer: the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris and the
pupil and refracts light