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.

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.

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.