Introduction to Psychology 1/IPSY102/Sensation perception/Quiz

Review questions

Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:

• Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.
  • vision, olfaction
    • Incorrect.
  • conscious, unconscious
    • Incorrect.
  • awareness, interpretation
    • Incorrect.
  • taste, vision
    • Incorrect.
• People are more likely to notice a $0.50 increase in the price of a candy bar than they are to notice a $0.50 increase in the price of an iPad. This illustrates:
  • the absolute threshold.
    • Incorrect.
  • Weber’s law.
    • Correct.
  • the difference threshold.
    • Incorrect.
  • psychophysics.
    • Incorrect.
• Top-down processing is to _____ as bottom-up processing is to _____.
  • hearing a bark; hearing a tone
    • Correct.
  • seeing color; seeing shapes
    • Incorrect.
  • hearing a tone; seeing color
    • Incorrect.
  • seeing a emoji; hearing a bark
    • Incorrect.
• The Perceptual Process starts with:
  • sensation.
    • Incorrect.
  • Perception.
    • Incorrect.
  • neural processing.
    • Incorrect.
  • the stimulus.
    • Correct.