SENSATION AND PERCEPTION TEST BANK GOLDSTEIN AND BROCKMOLE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION TEST BANK
GOLDSTEIN AND BROCKMOLE
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

◉ Sensations are __ events, and they are an __ process. Answer:
physical, unconscious


◉ Perception. Answer: The coginitive/psychological interpretation of a
sensation


◉ Perceptions are __ events, and they are a __ process. Answer: mental,
conscious


◉ What happens when we experience a stimulus. Answer: see, hear,
feel, taste, smell


◉ Transduction. Answer: conversion of energy from one form to
another


◉ Where is the information from a stimulus delivered?. Answer: to the
brain


◉ bottom-up processing. Answer: analysis that begins with the sensory
receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.

, Using information in the stimulus to help identify it


◉ top-down processing. Answer: information processing guided by
higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions
drawing on our experience and expectations.


◉ bottom up: using information __ the stimulus to help identify it.
Answer: in


◉ top down: using information __ the stimulus to help identify it.
Answer: around


◉ psychophysics. Answer: the study of the relationship between stimuli
and the sensations and perceptions they evoke


◉ Who studied stimuli thresholds?. Answer: Gustav Fechner


◉ Absolute threshold. Answer: minimum amount of a stimulus
necessary to detect it


◉ Difference threshold. Answer: minimum amount of difference within
2 stimuli necessary to detect a difference between 2 stimuli