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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 2s
1. 2 s “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ea
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b. 2 s were developed by computer scientists in the 1970s.
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c. 2 s were developed by computer scientists in the 1990s.
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d. 2 s have yet to be developed.
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2. Which of the following is an application
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systems. ”
b. Treating hearing problems.
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3. 2 s Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. 2 To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. 2 To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. 2 To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility
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d. 2 s All of these.
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h a. medicine.
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5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual proces
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s? a. Stimuli
2 s c. Serendipity 2 s
b. Neural Processing
2 s d. Behavioral Responses
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6. 2 s The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons
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7. 2 s ______ is the step in the perceptual process that is analogous to an ATM withdrawal
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thea. transduced image.
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b. environmental stimulus.
2 s d. perception. 2s 2 s
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9. 2 The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual stim
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ulus.
a. representation.
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b. environmental stimulus.
2 s d. scale model 2s 2 s 2s
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10. 2 s Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high” le
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b. Cerebral cortex
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ss. a. action
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b. attention
2 s d. recognition 2 s
12. 2 s Which of the following best describes the steps of the perceptual process?
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a. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and endin
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b. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and ending
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at knowledge.
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c. The steps are unidirectional, starting at transduction and ending at recogniti
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on.
d. The sequence of steps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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13. If a person sees the unambiguous “rat” stimulus, and then views the ambiguous “rat-
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man”
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cies.
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he
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class and he can see read the “P” and thed.“Q”.Compression
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b. Oblique processing
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15. ________ processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptor
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s. a. Bottom-up
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16. 2 s Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting involve
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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 2s
1. 2 s “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ea
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se
a. 2 s were developed by computer scientists in the 1960s.
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b. 2 s were developed by computer scientists in the 1970s.
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c. 2 s were developed by computer scientists in the 1990s.
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d. 2 s have yet to be developed.
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2. Which of the following is an application
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? a. Developing speech recognition
2 s 2s 2s c. Devising robots that can “see.
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systems. ”
b. Treating hearing problems.
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3. 2 s Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. 2 To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. 2 To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. 2 To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility
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.
d. 2 s All of these.
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4. 2The study of perception can overlap wit
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h a. medicine.
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b. computer science
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.
5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual proces
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s? a. Stimuli
2 s c. Serendipity 2 s
b. Neural Processing
2 s d. Behavioral Responses
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6. 2 s The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons
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is
s
calledrefraction.
a. 2 s c. 2 s reduction.
b. 2transduction.
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7. 2 s ______ 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 respo
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nse
resulting
a. 2 in the dispensing of money).
Knowledge
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8. 2The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is
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thea. transduced image.
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b. environmental stimulus.
2 s d. perception. 2s 2 s
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9. 2 The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual stim
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ulus.
a. representation.
2 s c. replication. 2 s
b. environmental stimulus.
2 s d. scale model 2s 2 s 2s
.
10. 2 s Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high” le
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vel
functions
a. Brainsuch
2 stemas language, memory, and thinking?
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b. Cerebral cortex
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11. 2Visual form agnosia is a problem of the ______ step of the perceptual proce
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ss. a. action
2 s c. transduction 2 s
b. attention
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12. 2 s Which of the following best describes the steps of the perceptual process?
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a. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and endin
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g atperception.
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b. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and ending
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at knowledge.
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c. The steps are unidirectional, starting at transduction and ending at recogniti
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on.
d. The sequence of steps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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13. If a person sees the unambiguous “rat” stimulus, and then views the ambiguous “rat-
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man”
figure,
a. athe
rat,person
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because s likely of
the effect
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knowledge.2s2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s
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b. a man, because we tend to see things that match our spe
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cies.
c.
d. rat,or
a rat because
22 a man of
s the effect of action.
equally 2s
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.
14. 2Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board is bl
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urry.
Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop quizzes in t
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he
a. Bottom-
2 s c. Top-down processing 2 s 2s
class and he can see read the “P” and thed.“Q”.Compression
up processing 2s 2s 2sWhat allows him to read the board?
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b. Oblique processing
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15. ________ processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptor
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s. a. Bottom-up
2 s c. Top-down 2 s
b. Oblique2 s d. Receptor 2 s
16. 2 s Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting involve
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a.
b. 22 top-down processing.
only bottom-up
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c. both top-down and bottom-
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up processing.
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d. only data-based processing.
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