EXPERIENCE PSYCHOLOGY 2ND EDITION BY KING-TEST BANK

EXPERIENCE
PSYCHOLOGY 2ND
EDITION BY KING- TEST
BANK

Chapter 03
Sensation and Perception


Multiple Choice Questions
1. (p. 85)The process through which the senses detect environmental stimuli and transmit
them to the brain is called .
A. consciousness
B. perception
C. sensation
D. reception

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
2. (p. 85) is the process by which the brain actively organizes and interprets sensory
information.
A. Consciousness
B. Perception

, C. Sensation
D. Reception

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World

3. (p. 85)As you walk barefoot in the park, your nose conveys to your brain the smell of
the freshly cut grass, your skin sends information about the feel of the gentle breeze, and
your ears transmit the sound of children laughing on the playground to your auditory cortex.
This process of acquiring “raw data” about the stimuli in the environment is called .
A. sensation
B. selective attention
C. sensory adaptation
D. cognition

Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
4. (p. 85)The process of involves organizing and interpreting incoming sensory
information.
A. perception
B. sensation
C. transduction
D. inhibition

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
5. (p. 86)Melanie is learning how to read Spanish by sounding out each word one letter at a
time. Melanie is engaging in .
A. top-down processing
B. bottom-up processing
C. sensory adaptation
D. subliminal perception

Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World

6. (p. 87) are specialized cells that detect stimulus information and transmit it to
afferent nerves and the brain.
A. Perceptual sets
B. Sensory receptors
C. Binocular cues
D. Monocular cues

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
7. (p. 87)Which of the following is true of sensation?
A. Sensory receptors are specialized cells that are not selective.
B. Chemoreception helps in the detection of light, perceived as sight.

, C. Synaesthesia describes an experience in which one sense induces an experience in the
same sense.
D. Sensory receptors are the openings through which the brain and nervous system
experience the world.

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
8. (p. 87)Which of the following explains the ability of an animal to distinguish among sight,
sound, odor, taste, and touch?
A. Sensory neurons (unlike all neurons) do not follow the all-or-nothing principle.
B. The senses create a process known as synaesthesia that describes an experience in which
one sense induces an experience in the same sense.
C. Sensory receptors are selective and have different neural pathways.
D. The receptor holds the frequency of action potentials sent to the brain.

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World

9. (p. 88)Which of the following classes of sensory receptors play an important role in
detecting pressure, vibration, movement, touch, and hearing?
A. Chemoreception
B. Photoreception
C. Mechanoreception
D. Endorphins

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
10. (p. 88)Which of the following classes of sensory receptors provide information about sight
and the detection of light?
A. Chemoreception
B. Photoreception
C. Chemoreception
D. Synaesthesia

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
11. (p. 89) means that a person can detect information from the world without receiving
concrete sensory input.
A. Retrocognition
B. Selective attention
C. Absolute threshold
D. Extrasensory perception

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World

12. (p. 89)You are studying in your dorm room, but your neighbor is blasting the television in
the adjacent room. When you gently request that your neighbor turn the volume down until you

, cannot hear it, you are asking your neighbor to make the volume less than your _.
A. absolute threshold
B. difference threshold
C. minimum transduction level
D. basilar level

Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
13. (p. 89)Michael, a famous musician, is designing a new apartment that will serve as both his
residence and his recording studio. Since the music studio shares a wall with his bedroom,
Michael wants to be sure that the recording studio is soundproof. This means that Michael
wants to be sure that sound from the studio is well under his _ while he is in his bedroom.
A. absolute threshold
B. difference threshold
C. papillae
D. minimum threshold

Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
14. (p. 89)The _ marks the point where we can just barely perceive a stimulus.
A. just noticeable difference
B. difference threshold
C. absolute threshold
D. just noticeable threshold

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World

15. (p. 90)The smallest intensity of a stimulus that you can detect 50 percent of the time is the
.
A. absolute threshold
B. sensory threshold
C. the extrasensory perception
D. Weber’s law

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
16. (p. 91-92)The minimal change in stimulation that is required todetect whether one stimulus
differs from another is the .
A. difference threshold
B. absolute threshold
C. perceptual constant
D. vestibular sense

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objectives: How We Sense and Perceive the World
17. (p. 92)Which of the following principles states that two stimuli must differ by a constant
proportion to be perceived as different?