Sensation 1

What is the term for the minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a stimulus half of the time?

Which concept explains why a person may no longer smell the garlic in a room after being exposed to it for an extended period?

According to Weber's Law, what determines the just noticeable difference (JND) between two stimuli?

What is the primary focus of Gestalt psychology concerning perception?

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of figure-ground perception?

In signal detection theory, what occurs if a signal is present and the observer reports detecting it?

In the context of signal detection theory, what is a 'false alarm'?

What is 'response bias' in the context of signal detection theory?

Which example illustrates bottom-up processing?

How does top-down processing influence perception?

What is transduction in the context of sensation and perception?

Why might pain be an exception to sensory adaptation?

Which sensory process is most directly associated with the concept of 'just noticeable difference'?

What is the relationship between intensity of a stimulus and the difference threshold?

If a radiologist is more likely to report a tumor in a scan due to previous cases of missed diagnoses, this is most likely caused by:

How would a constant auditory noise from a plane best be described?

How are expectations most likely to affect response bias?

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

How is transduction related to electrical signals?

What is the correct order of stimuli processing?

What processes begin with raw sensory data?

Which answer uses observer expectation?

Which of the following accurately describes how the difference threshold would change, after a period of intense constant stimuli?

How would perception be most affected by damage to the figure-ground recognition system?

Which statement relies more on top-down perception?

Which situation directly relies on Weber's Law?

How do the expectations of a patient regarding how they are feeling affect their response bias?

What would most affect the likelihood of a person having false alarms?

Someone gives you a cup of soda, and doesn't tell you what it is. What kind of process is this?

What do we know if someone says "This is root beer", before you taste it?

Someone says this is root beer, you taste it and it'll taste like root beer is an example of a prior _____ being ____.

What factor does NOT affect future response bias?

If someone is doing a puzzle by looking at the picture first, what kind of processing are they using?

If someone is doing a puzzle without knowing what it'll look like, what kind of perception are they using?

What is another exception to sensory adaptation?

Bottom-up is a series of _____ and _____.

How would a patient is feeling be most likely to affect their response bias?

What best describes the concept that we don't perceive things as just lines?

An individual with a history of frequent 'misses' in signal detection tasks is likely to adopt which strategy in future scenarios?

How does the evolutionary perspective explain sensory adaptation?

In the context of signal detection theory, what is the effect of a patient's strong desire for a positive diagnosis on their likelihood of reporting the presence of a signal?

How does Weber's Law explain why it's easier to notice a small change in volume when the initial volume is low, compared to when the initial volume is high?

How does prior experience with different types of stimuli affect an individual's application of top-down processing?