SENSATION AND PERCEPTION FINAL
PAPER TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● Bottom-Up Processing
Answer: Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to
the brain's integration of sensory information.
Externally Driven.
●● Perception
Answer: Selecting, organizing, and interpreting what comes in your
window as meaningful objects and events.
●● Top-Down Processing
Answer: Guided by higher level mental processes, such as experience,
motivation, and expectations
●● Perceptual Adaptation
Answer: Ability to adjust to an artificially displaced field
●● Psychophysics
Answer: The study of how physical energy relates to our psychological
experience
, ●● Transduction
Answer: Conversion of one form of energy into another
●● Absolute Threshold
Answer: The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus
50% of the time
●● Difference Threshold
(JND)
Answer: The minimum difference a person can detect between any 2
stimuli 50% of the time
●● Weber's Law
Answer: Difference thresholds differ by a constant percentage rather
than a constant amount.
●● Signal Detection Theory
Answer: Predicts when we will detect weak stimuli amid background
noise
Depends on experience, expectations, motivation, and fatigue level
●● Subliminal Messages
PAPER TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● Bottom-Up Processing
Answer: Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to
the brain's integration of sensory information.
Externally Driven.
●● Perception
Answer: Selecting, organizing, and interpreting what comes in your
window as meaningful objects and events.
●● Top-Down Processing
Answer: Guided by higher level mental processes, such as experience,
motivation, and expectations
●● Perceptual Adaptation
Answer: Ability to adjust to an artificially displaced field
●● Psychophysics
Answer: The study of how physical energy relates to our psychological
experience
, ●● Transduction
Answer: Conversion of one form of energy into another
●● Absolute Threshold
Answer: The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus
50% of the time
●● Difference Threshold
(JND)
Answer: The minimum difference a person can detect between any 2
stimuli 50% of the time
●● Weber's Law
Answer: Difference thresholds differ by a constant percentage rather
than a constant amount.
●● Signal Detection Theory
Answer: Predicts when we will detect weak stimuli amid background
noise
Depends on experience, expectations, motivation, and fatigue level
●● Subliminal Messages
