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Which term refers to the activation of sensory organs?
Which term refers to the activation of sensory organs?
- Top-down processing
- Sensation (correct)
- Perception
- Bottom-up processing
What is the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them?
What is the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them?
- Perceptual set
- Sensory transduction
- Thresholds
- Psychophysics (correct)
What is the smallest level of energy required by an external stimulus to be detectable by the human senses 50% of the time?
What is the smallest level of energy required by an external stimulus to be detectable by the human senses 50% of the time?
- Bottom-up processing
- Subliminal threshold
- Absolute threshold (correct)
- Perceptual set
Which type of processing uses our background knowledge and expectations to interpret what we see?
Which type of processing uses our background knowledge and expectations to interpret what we see?
What term describes a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another based on experience, concepts, and schemas?
What term describes a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another based on experience, concepts, and schemas?
What type of message is said to be subliminal if it is below the absolute threshold?
What type of message is said to be subliminal if it is below the absolute threshold?
Which theory explains high pitch based on different sound waves triggering activity in different parts of the cochlea’s basilar membrane?
Which theory explains high pitch based on different sound waves triggering activity in different parts of the cochlea’s basilar membrane?
What is the function of rods in the retina?
What is the function of rods in the retina?
Which nerve cells in the brain’s visual cortex respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement?
Which nerve cells in the brain’s visual cortex respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement?
What is the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional?
What is the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional?
Which psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes?
Which psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes?
What is explained by the place theory in audition?
What is explained by the place theory in audition?
What is the role of cones in the retina?
What is the role of cones in the retina?
Which theory enables color vision by opposing retinal processes (red-green, blue-yellow, white-black)?
Which theory enables color vision by opposing retinal processes (red-green, blue-yellow, white-black)?
What is the role of nociceptors?
What is the role of nociceptors?
In the gate-control theory of pain, what opens the neurological 'gate' in the spinal cord?
In the gate-control theory of pain, what opens the neurological 'gate' in the spinal cord?
What is the function of proprioceptors in the body?
What is the function of proprioceptors in the body?
Which sense is influenced by movement of fluids in the inner ear?
Which sense is influenced by movement of fluids in the inner ear?
What is embodied cognition?
What is embodied cognition?
How do we smell something?
How do we smell something?
