SENSATION AND PERCEPTION ACTUAL
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Perception
Answer: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information,
enabling us to recognize objects and events.
●● Bottom up processing
Answer: Starting with the sensory input, the brain attempts to
understand/make sense.
●● Top down processing
Answer: Guided by experience and higher-level processes, we see what
we expect.
●● Selective attention
Answer: Our tendency to focus on just a particular stimulus among the
many that are being received.
●● Cocktail party effect
Answer: Focusing attention on one particular voice amidst the loudness
of many others.
, ●● Selective inattention
Answer: At the level of conscious awareness, we are in only one place at
a time and so we miss salient objects that are available to be sensed.
●● Inattentional blindness
Answer: Failing to see visible objects when our attention is focused or
directed elsewhere.
●● Change blindness
Answer: Failing to notice changes in the visual environment.
●● Transduction
Answer: Conversion of one form of energy, such as light waves, into
another form, like neural impulses that our brain can interpret.
●● Psychophysics
Answer: The study of relationships between the physical characteristic
of stimuli such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of
them.
●● Absolute threshold
Answer: The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus
50% of the time.
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Perception
Answer: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information,
enabling us to recognize objects and events.
●● Bottom up processing
Answer: Starting with the sensory input, the brain attempts to
understand/make sense.
●● Top down processing
Answer: Guided by experience and higher-level processes, we see what
we expect.
●● Selective attention
Answer: Our tendency to focus on just a particular stimulus among the
many that are being received.
●● Cocktail party effect
Answer: Focusing attention on one particular voice amidst the loudness
of many others.
, ●● Selective inattention
Answer: At the level of conscious awareness, we are in only one place at
a time and so we miss salient objects that are available to be sensed.
●● Inattentional blindness
Answer: Failing to see visible objects when our attention is focused or
directed elsewhere.
●● Change blindness
Answer: Failing to notice changes in the visual environment.
●● Transduction
Answer: Conversion of one form of energy, such as light waves, into
another form, like neural impulses that our brain can interpret.
●● Psychophysics
Answer: The study of relationships between the physical characteristic
of stimuli such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of
them.
●● Absolute threshold
Answer: The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus
50% of the time.
