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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 km




1. k“Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike
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ease
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. kWhich of the following is an application of perception resear
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ch?
a. Developing speech recognitio
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n systems. .”
b. Treating hearing problems.
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3. k m Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. kTo become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. kTo provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. k To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibil
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ity.
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4. kThe study of perception can overlap wi
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th a. medicine.
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b. computer scienc
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5. kWhich of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual pro
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cess?
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b. Neural Processing
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6. kThe process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neur
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ons is km


calledrefraction.
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b. transduction.
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7. k m ______ 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 res
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ponse
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b. kTransference
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8. k The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing
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is a.
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b. environmental stimulus
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9. k The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual st
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imulus.
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b. environmental stimulus
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. .
10. k Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high”
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b. Cerebral corte
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11. k Visual form agnosia is a problem of the ______ step of the perceptual pr
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ocess.
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b. attention
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12. k m Which of the following best describes the steps of the perceptual process?
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a. k The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and end
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ing perception.
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b. k The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and endi
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ng atknowledge.
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c. k The steps are unidirectional, starting at transduction and ending at recogn
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ition.
d. k The sequence of steps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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13. kIf a person sees the unambiguous “rat” stimulus, and then views the ambiguous “ra
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t-man”
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b. a man, because we tend to see things that match our s
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14. k Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board i
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s blurry.
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Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop quizzes i
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na. the Bottom-
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class and he can see read the “P” and the
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b. Oblique processing
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15. k ________ processing is based on the stimuli reaching the recep
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b. Oblique
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16. k m Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting invol
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