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Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception.
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2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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4. Cortical Organization.
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5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes.
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6. Visual Attention.
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7. Taking Action.
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8. Perceiving Motion.
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9. Perceiving Color.
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10. Perceiving Depth and Size.
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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.
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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 oi
1. o i“Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ease
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a. Developing speech recognition
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c. o To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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d. o All of these.
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5. o iWhich of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual process?
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a. Stimuli
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6. o iThe process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons is
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a. transduced image.
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9. o The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual stimulus
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functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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12. o i Which of the following best describes the steps of the perceptual process?
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knowledge.
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d. The sequence of steps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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TEST BANK oi
Sensation and Perception,10th Edition
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by Goldstein, Cacciamani Chapter 1 to 15
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Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception.
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2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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4. Cortical Organization.
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5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes.
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6. Visual Attention.
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7. Taking Action.
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8. Perceiving Motion.
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9. Perceiving Color.
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10. Perceiving Depth and Size.
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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.
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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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c. owere developed by computer scientists in the 1990s.
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a. Developing speech recognition
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c. o To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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d. o All of these.
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b. Neural Processing
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called
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(pressure from button press becomes electrical energy then becomes a mechanical respons
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resulting
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9. o The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual stimulus
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functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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b. o attention
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knowledge.
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d. The sequence of steps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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d. rat,or
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