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2. ThePhysiological BeginningsofPerception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. tv v v
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6.Perceiving Color.
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10. PerceivingDepth and Size. v v v
11. SoundandthePerceptionofPitch.
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12. Auditory Localization, the Auditory Scene, and Music.
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13. SpeechPerception. v
14. The Cutaneous Senses.
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15. The Chemical Senses.
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1. “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate the environment with humanlike ease
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d. have yet tobe developed. v v v tv
2. Which of the following is an application of perception research?
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a. Developing speechrecognition c. Devising robots that can “see.” tv v tv tv v v
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b. Treatinghearing problems. d. All of these. v tv tv v
3. Whichofthefollowingisareasonforstudyingperception?
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a. Tobecomemoreawareofyourownperceptual experiences.
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b. To provide information that mayhelp with afuture career.
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c. To applyperception toeverydayproblems, such as highwaysign visibility.
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4. Thestudyofperceptioncan overlapwith
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a. medicine. c. philosophy.
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5. WhichofthefollowingisNOT acategoryofthestages intheperceptual process?
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a. Stimuli c. Serendipity
b. Neural Processing d. Behavioral Responses
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6. Theprocessoftransforming energyintheenvironment intoelectrical energyin theneurons is
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called
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a. refraction. c. reduction.
b. transduction. d. construction.
7. is the step in the perceptual process that is analogous to an ATM withdrawal (pressure
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from button press becomes electrical energythen becomes a mechanical response resultingin
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thedispensingofmoney).
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a. Knowledge c. Action
b. Transference d. Transduction
8. Thespecificterm forthe “stimulus onthereceptors”invisual processing is the
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a. transduced image. c. visual image. v tv
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a. representation. c. replication.
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10. Which brainstructureis responsible forcreating perceptions and producing other “high”level
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functionssuchaslanguage,memory,andthinking?
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11. Visual form agnosiaisaproblemofthe tv v v v v v v v step ofthe perceptual process.
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a. action c. transduction
b. attention d. recognition
12. Whichofthefollowingbestdescribes thestepsoftheperceptual process?
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a. Thestepsareunidirectional,startingat theenvironmentalstimulusandending at
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b. The steps areunidirectional, starting attheenvironmental stimulus and ending at
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c. The steps are unidirectional, starting at transduction and ending at recognition.
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d. The sequence ofsteps is dynamic and constantly changing.
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13. Ifapersonseestheunambiguous “rat”stimulus,andthenviewstheambiguous“rat-man”
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figure, the person will most likelyreport seeing
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a. a rat, because ofthe effect of knowledge.
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b. aman,because wetendtoseethingsthatmatchourspecies.
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c. a rat, because ofthe effect of action.
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14. Justinforgottowearhisglassestoclasssothewritingheseesonthechalk boardisblurry. Even so,
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he issure itsays “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop quizzes inthe class and he can
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see read the “P”and the “Q”. What allows him to read the board?
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a. Bottom-up processing c. Top-downprocessing v v
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15. processing isbasedonthestimulireaching thereceptors. tv v v v v v tv v
a. Bottom-up c. Top-down
b. Oblique d. Receptor
16. Trying to read a note written bysomeone with poor handwriting involves
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b. onlybottom-up processing. v v
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