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Sensation and Perception, 9th Edition, E. Bruce Goldstein, ISBN-10: 1133958494, ISBN-13: 9781133958499 Table of Content 1. Introduction to Perception. 2. The Physiological Beginnings of Perception. 3. Neural Processing and Coding. 4. Cortical Organization. 5. Perceiving Objects and Scenes. 6. Visual Attention. 7. Taking Action. 8. Perceiving Motion. 9. Perceiving Color. 10. Perceiving Depth and Size. 11. Sound and the Perception of Pitch. 12. Auditory Localization, the Auditory Scene, and Music. 13. Speech Perception. 14. The Cutaneous Senses. 15. The Chemical Senses.

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11. Sound and the Perception of Pitch.
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12. Auditory Localization, the Auditory Scene, and Music.
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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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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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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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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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4. The study of perception can overlap with
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a. medicine. c. philosophy.
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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
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6. The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the
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a. refraction. c. reduction.
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a. Knowledge c. Action
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8. The specific term for the “stimulus on the receptors” in visual processing is the
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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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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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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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15. processing is based on the stimuli reaching the receptors.
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