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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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1. e 1 “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ea
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b. e 1 were developed by computer scientists in the 1970s.
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c. e 1 were developed by computer scientists in the 1990s.
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d. e 1 have yet to be developed.
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2. Which of the following is an application
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b. Treating hearing problems.
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3. e 1 Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. e To become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. e To provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. e To apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility
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d. e 1 All of these.
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4. eThe study of perception can overlap wit
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5. Which of the following is NOT a category of the stages in the perceptual proce
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b. Neural Processing
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6. e The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons
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7. e 1 ______ is the step in the perceptual process that is analogous to an ATM withdrawal
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8. eThe specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is
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thea. transduced image.
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9. e The image projected on the retina is best described as a ______ of the actual stim
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11. eVisual form agnosia is a problem of the ______ step of the perceptual proc
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12. e 1 Which of the following best describes the steps of the perceptual process?
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a. eThe steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and endin
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13. If a person sees the unambiguous “rat” stimulus, and then views the ambiguous “rat-
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14. e Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board is b
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lurry.
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b. Oblique processing
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16. e 1 Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting involve
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