Sensation and Perception 10th Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein – Complete Test Bank

Sensation and Perception 10th Edition Test Bank by Goldstein||New
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,Table of Content
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1. Introduction to Perception. x x




2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception.
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3. Neural Processing and Coding.
x x x




4. Cortical Organization. x




5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes.
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6. Visual Attention.
x




7. Taking Action. x




8. Perceiving Motion. x




9. Perceiving Color. x




10. Perceiving Depth and Size. x x x




11. Sound and the Perception of Pitch.
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12. Auditory Localization, the Auditory Scene, and Music.
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13. SpeechPerception. x




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 x




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.
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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. x x d. x x All of these. x x




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. x x




4. The study of perception can overlap with
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a. medicine. c. philosophy.
b. computer science. x d. all of these. x x




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 x d. Behavioral Responses x




6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neurons is
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xcalled
a. refraction. c. reduction.
b. transduction. d. construction.



7. x 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 response
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resulting in the dispensing of money).
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a. Knowledge c. Action
b. Transference d. Transduction


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.
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b. environmental stimulus. d. perception. x




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, 9. The image projected on the retina is best described as a _ _
x x x x x x x x x x x of the actual stimulus.
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a. representation. c. replication.
b. environmental stimulus. d. scale model. x x




10. Which brain structure is responsible for creating perceptions and producing other “high” level
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functions such as language, memory, and thinking?
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a. Brain stem c. Hypothalamus
x


b. Cerebral cortex d. Occipital lobe x x




11. Visual form agnosia is a problem of the
x x x x x x x x x _ step of the perceptual process.
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a. action c. transduction
b. attention d. recognition


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.
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b. The steps are unidirectional, starting at the environmental stimulus and ending at
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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 “rat-man”
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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 is blurry.
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Even so, he is sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows that there are pop quizzes in the
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class and he can see read the “P” and the “Q”. What allows him to read the board?
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a. Bottom-upprocessing c. Top-down processing x


b. Oblique processing d. Compression x




15. _ _ processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptors. x x x x x x x x


a. Bottom-up c. Top-down
b. Oblique d. Receptor

16. Trying to read a note written by someone with poor handwriting involves
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a. only top-down processing. x x


b. only bottom-up processing. x x


c. both top-down and bottom-up processing.
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d. only data-based processing. x x




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