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. gg gg
2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
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4. Cortical Organization. gg
5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. gg gg gg
6. Visual Attention. gg
7. Taking Action. gg
8. Perceiving Motion. gg
9. Perceiving Color. gg
10. Perceiving Depth and Size. gg gg gg
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. gg
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 gg
1. “Perceiving machines” that can negotiate thegg gg gg gg gg gg environment with humanlike ease gg gg gg
a. were developed by computer scientists in
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b. were developed by computer scientists in
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c. were developed by computer scientists in
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d. have yet to be developed. gg gg gg gg
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.”
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systems.
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b. Treating hearing problems. gg gg d. g g g g All of these.
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3. Which of the following is a reason for studying perception?
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a. To gg become more aware of your own perceptual experiences.
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b. To gg provide information that may help with a future career.
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c. To gg apply perception to everyday problems, such as highway sign visibility.
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d. All ggof these.gg
4. The study of perception can overlap with
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a. medicine. c. philosophy.
b. computer science. d. all of these.
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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.gg Behavioral Responses g g g g gg
6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the
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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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ggmechanical responseresulting in the dispensing of money).
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a. Knowledge c. Action
b. Transference d. Transduction g g g g
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. gg gg
b. environmental stimulus. d. perception. gg g g g g
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, 9. The image projected on the retina is best described as a of the actual stimulus.
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a. representation. c. replication.
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10. Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other
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“high” level functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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a. Brain stem gg c. Hypothalamus
b. Cerebral cortex d. Occipital lobe
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11. Visual form agnosia is a problem of the step of the perceptual process.
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a. action c. transduction
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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
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ending at perception.
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b. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and
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ending at knowledge.
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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
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“rat- 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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b. a man, because we tend to see things that match our species.
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c. a rat, because of the effect of action.
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d. a rat or a man equally.
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14. Justin forgot to wear his glasses to class so the writing he sees on the chalk board
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is blurry.Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are
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pop quizzes in the class and he can see read the “P” and the “Q”. What allows
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him to read the board?
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a. Bottom-up processing c. Top-down processing
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b. Oblique processing d. Compression
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15. processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptors.
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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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a. only top-down processing. gg gg
b. only bottom-up processing. gg gg
c. both top-down and bottom-up processing.
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d. only data-based processing. gg gg
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