Unit 7: perception and sensation

1. A BRANCH OF PSYCHOLOGY THAT STUDIES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SENSORY EXPERIENCES AND THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF STIMULI:
a) psychology
b) psychophysics
c) psycholinguistics
d) psychometri

2. THE PROCESS THAT THE BRAIN USES TO INTERPRET AND ORGANIZE INFORMATION FROM THE SENSES:
a) sensation
b) shift
c) process
d) perception

3. A PROCESS PERFORMED BY SENSORY ORGANS IN WHICH ONE TYYPE OF ENERGY BECOMES ANOTHER:
a) sensation
b) phoneme
c) transduction
d) perception

4. THE DETECTION OR THE EXPERIENCE OF SOMETHING IN THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT RESULTING FROM STIMULATION OF SENSORY ORGAN:
a) sensations
b) habituation
c) neuron
d) sense

5. AN ABILITY BY WHICH THE BODY PERCEIVES SOMETHING AROUND IT:
a) disposition
b) encoding
c) sensation
d) sense

6. THE REDUCTION IN RESPONSE TO A SENSORY PERCEPTION THAT OCCURS WHEN A STIMULUS IS REPETITIVE OR UNCHANGING:
a) sensory memory
b) sensory information
c) sensory deprivation
d) sensory adaptation

7. THE LACK OF NORMAL AMOUNTS OF SENOSRY PERCEPTION:
a) sensory nerve
b) sensory deprivation
c) sensory information
d) sensory adaptation

8. THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF STIMULATION THAT AN OBSERVER CAN DETECT:
a) absolute thresholds
b) difference th thresholds
c) sympathetic division
d) visuo-spatial sketchpad

9. THE SMALLEST DIFFERENCE IN STIMULATION THAT AN OBSERVER CAN DETECT WHILE COMPARING TWO STIULI:
a) physical state
b) sleep stage
c) difference thresholds
d) absolute thresholds

10. THE PROCESS OSF FOCUSING ON A SMALL PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT WHILE BLOCKING OUT THE REST OF THE ENVIRONMENT:
a) selective attention
b) acoustic code
c) associative learning
d) body-kinesthetic