Quiz: Sensation and Perception
This information gathered for this quiz comes from Psychology 101, Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception.
Directions: Respond to the following items with either true or false. When you have responded to all items, click the Score button at the bottom of the page. |
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Absolute
threshold refers to the point that the change in a stimulus can be
detected. |
2. |
The
amount of change required to notice the change in a stimulus is called
the just noticeable difference. |
3. |
Weber's Law states that the change in a stimulus
must be stated in a percentage rather than an absolute. |
4. | Sensory
adaptation helps us push unchanging sensory material to the background
therefore freeing up our senses for stimuli that is changing.
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5. |
Gestalt
means form or whole and refers to the idea that the whole is often
greater than the sum of its parts. |
6. |
The
four principles of grouping include closure, similarity, proximity, and
continuity. |
7. |
We
believe things are smaller when they are farther away and have to
reinterpret the object's size repeatedly as we approach it. |
8. |
Understanding
that a round dinner plate may look oval from a different angle refers to
shape constancy. |
9. |
We
use monocular cues to determine closeness and binocular cues to determine
farness. |
10. |
Retinal
disparity refers to the manner in which a person's eyes each send an image
to the brain and how these images are interpreted. |
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