Sensation and Perception Concepts Quiz

Photoreceptors detect light stimuli.

Perception is the brain's process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

The iris regulates the amount of light entering the eye.

The occipital lobe processes visual information.

Perceptual constancy is perceiving stimuli consistently across varying conditions.

Ossicles transmit sound vibrations to the cochlea.

Difference threshold refers to the smallest detectable difference between two stimuli.

Trichromatic theory proposes that color vision is based on three types of cones sensitive to different wavelengths.

Perceptual organization is the process of making sense of sensory information.

Motion parallax uses relative motion to perceive depth.

Sensory transduction is the conversion of sensory stimuli into neural impulses.

Habituation is the decrease in sensitivity to a repeated stimulus.

Sensory adaptation is the decreasing response of sensory receptors to a constant stimulus.

Feature detection theory emphasizes bottom-up processing in perception.

Aerial perspective relies on objects appearing hazier with distance.

Perceptual constancy refers to perceiving objects as maintaining their attributes despite sensory changes.

Size constancy is perceiving objects as having a constant size despite changes in retinal image size.

Perceptual set is the phenomenon where expectations influence perceptions.

Donald Broadbent proposed the theory of selective attention.

Shape consistency is perceiving an object as maintaining its shape despite orientation changes.

Binocular disparity allows for depth perception using differences in images projected onto each retina.

Multisensory integration theory states perception results from integrating information from multiple senses.

Donald Broadbent developed the 'cocktail party effect' theory of selective attention.

Gustav Fechner proposed the theory of psychophysics.

Phi phenomenon is perceiving movement in stationary stimuli.