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Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception. ss ss
2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. ss ss ss
6. Visual Attention. ss
7. Taking Action. ss
8. Perceiving Motion. ss
9. Perceiving Color. ss
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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. ss
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 ss
1. “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ease
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b. were developed by computer scientists in the 1970s.
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2. Which of the following is an application of perception research?
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3. Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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4. The study of perception can overlap with
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5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual process?
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a. Stimuli c. Serendipity
b. Neural Processing d. Behavioral Responses
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6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons
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7. 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
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responseresulting in the dispensing of money).
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a. Knowledge c. Action
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8. The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is the
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10. Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high”
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level functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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11. Visual form agnosia is a problem of the
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12. 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 ending at
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perception. ss
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knowledge. ss
c. The steps are unidirectional, starting at transduction and ending at recognition.
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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, the person will most likely report seeing
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14. Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board is
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blurry.Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop
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Test Bank for Sensation and Perception, 9th Edition, E. Bruce Goldstein, ISBN-
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10:1133958494, ISBN-13: 9781133958499
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Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception. ss ss
2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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4. Cortical Organization. ss
5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. ss ss ss
6. Visual Attention. ss
7. Taking Action. ss
8. Perceiving Motion. ss
9. Perceiving Color. ss
10. Perceiving Depth and Size. ss ss ss
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. ss
14. The Cutaneous Senses.
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15. The Chemical Senses.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE ss
1. “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ease
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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. ss ss ss ss
2. Which of the following is an application of perception research?
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a. Developing speech recognition c. Devising robots that can “see.” ss ss ss ss ss ss
systems.ss
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3. Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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d. All of these. ss ss
4. The study of perception can overlap with
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5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual process?
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a. Stimuli c. Serendipity
b. Neural Processing d. Behavioral Responses
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6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons
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is called
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a. refraction. c. reduction.
b. transduction. d. construction.
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7. 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
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responseresulting in the dispensing of money).
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a. Knowledge c. Action
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8. The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is the
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a. transduced image. c. visual image. ss ss
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10. Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high”
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level functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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12. 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 ending at
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perception. ss
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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, the person will most likely report seeing
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a. a rat, because of the effect of knowledge.
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14. Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board is
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blurry.Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop
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quizzes in the class and he can see read the “P” and the “Q”. What allows him to read
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the board?
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a. Bottom-up c. Top-down
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16. Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting involves
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