Unit 4 - Sensation and Perception Terms
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER The process of attending to and taking in stimuli from the
environment.
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER The interpretation and organization of sensory information.
Biopsychosocial (Model) - CORRECT ANSWER The model that describes how sensation and
perception has biological, psychological, and social elements.
Bottom Up (Processing) - CORRECT ANSWER Perceptual processing where the brain pieces
together all incoming stimuli, then makes a decision on what it is perceiving.
Top Down (Processing) - CORRECT ANSWER Perceptual processing that is based on higher level
knowledge, expectation, and memory.
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER *Bottom Up* Processing relies more on
_____________________(Sensation/Perception).
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER *Top Down* Processing relies more on
_____________________(Sensation/Perception).
Perceptual Set - CORRECT ANSWER The phenomenon that describes how our *expectations*
greatly influence our experience. AKA Perceptual Expectancy.
Top Down - CORRECT ANSWER *Perceptual Set* is a major factor in __________ __________
(Top Down/Bottom Up) Processing.
, (Wilhelm) Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER The *Father of Modern Psychology*, having opened the
first experimental Psych lab to study psychophysics.
Psychophysics - CORRECT ANSWER The study of the links between physical stimuli in the world
and the psychological experience of those stimuli.
Smell - CORRECT ANSWER All senses are directly routed to the *Thalamus* EXCEPT:
______________.
Transduction - CORRECT ANSWER The conversion of one type of energy to another.
Sensory Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER The process of *Receptor Cells* becoming less
receptive or responsive after prolonged exposure to a constant stimulus.
Habituation - CORRECT ANSWER When the *Brain* stops paying attention to things that don't
change. However, as soon as that thing changes, it grabs your attention.
Absolute Threshold - CORRECT ANSWER The minimum amount of a stimulus one can detect
50% of the time it's present.
Subliminal Message(s) - CORRECT ANSWER Information below the Absolute Threshold of
detection that the brain can *Receive* but does not *Perceive*.
Signal Detection (Theory) - CORRECT ANSWER A theory that categorizes whether or not people
respond to a stimulus.
Hit - CORRECT ANSWER In *Signal Detection Theory*, if the signal *was* present and the
person *did* respond, this would be considered a ___________.
Difference Threshold - CORRECT ANSWER The minimum amount of *difference* between two
stimuli that one can detect 50% of the time (AKA Just Noticeable Difference).
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER The process of attending to and taking in stimuli from the
environment.
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER The interpretation and organization of sensory information.
Biopsychosocial (Model) - CORRECT ANSWER The model that describes how sensation and
perception has biological, psychological, and social elements.
Bottom Up (Processing) - CORRECT ANSWER Perceptual processing where the brain pieces
together all incoming stimuli, then makes a decision on what it is perceiving.
Top Down (Processing) - CORRECT ANSWER Perceptual processing that is based on higher level
knowledge, expectation, and memory.
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWER *Bottom Up* Processing relies more on
_____________________(Sensation/Perception).
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER *Top Down* Processing relies more on
_____________________(Sensation/Perception).
Perceptual Set - CORRECT ANSWER The phenomenon that describes how our *expectations*
greatly influence our experience. AKA Perceptual Expectancy.
Top Down - CORRECT ANSWER *Perceptual Set* is a major factor in __________ __________
(Top Down/Bottom Up) Processing.
, (Wilhelm) Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER The *Father of Modern Psychology*, having opened the
first experimental Psych lab to study psychophysics.
Psychophysics - CORRECT ANSWER The study of the links between physical stimuli in the world
and the psychological experience of those stimuli.
Smell - CORRECT ANSWER All senses are directly routed to the *Thalamus* EXCEPT:
______________.
Transduction - CORRECT ANSWER The conversion of one type of energy to another.
Sensory Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER The process of *Receptor Cells* becoming less
receptive or responsive after prolonged exposure to a constant stimulus.
Habituation - CORRECT ANSWER When the *Brain* stops paying attention to things that don't
change. However, as soon as that thing changes, it grabs your attention.
Absolute Threshold - CORRECT ANSWER The minimum amount of a stimulus one can detect
50% of the time it's present.
Subliminal Message(s) - CORRECT ANSWER Information below the Absolute Threshold of
detection that the brain can *Receive* but does not *Perceive*.
Signal Detection (Theory) - CORRECT ANSWER A theory that categorizes whether or not people
respond to a stimulus.
Hit - CORRECT ANSWER In *Signal Detection Theory*, if the signal *was* present and the
person *did* respond, this would be considered a ___________.
Difference Threshold - CORRECT ANSWER The minimum amount of *difference* between two
stimuli that one can detect 50% of the time (AKA Just Noticeable Difference).
