Sensation and Perception Quiz

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#1

Which sense is primarily responsible for detecting taste?

Vision
Audition
Olfaction
Gustation
1 answered
#2

Which sensory receptor cells are responsible for detecting light and color?

Mechanoreceptors
Chemoreceptors
Photoreceptors
Thermoreceptors
1 answered
#3

Which theory of color vision proposes that there are three types of color receptors in the retina that are sensitive to different wavelengths of light?

Trichromatic theory
Opponent-process theory
Feature integration theory
Place theory
1 answered
#4

Which term describes the process by which we selectively attend to specific sensory information while ignoring others?

Sensory adaptation
Sensory integration
Selective attention
Sensory discrimination
1 answered
#5

Which sense is primarily responsible for detecting sound?

Vision
Olfaction
Audition
Gustation
1 answered
#6

What is the process by which physical energy is converted into neural signals, allowing us to experience sensations?

Perception
Transduction
Sensation
Cognition
1 answered
#7

Which part of the brain is primarily associated with processing visual information?

Occipital lobe
Temporal lobe
Parietal lobe
Frontal lobe
1 answered
#8

The ability to perceive the relative distance of objects in three-dimensional space is known as:

Visual acuity
Binocular disparity
Depth perception
Visual accommodation
1 answered
#9

What term refers to the minimum amount of stimulus energy required to be detected by a sensory system?

Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
Signal detection
Sensory adaptation
1 answered
#10

What term describes the tendency to perceive an incomplete stimulus as a complete whole?

Closure
Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
1 answered
#11

The perception of pain is influenced by psychological factors such as attention, expectations, and past experiences. This phenomenon is known as:

Gate-control theory
Pain adaptation theory
Phantom limb syndrome
Pain modulation theory
#12

What is the phenomenon where we tend to perceive a series of still images as continuous motion, commonly experienced in watching movies or animations?

Depth perception
Figure-ground perception
Stroboscopic motion
Perceptual constancy
#13

The phenomenon where we perceive an object as maintaining its shape, size, and color despite changes in the sensory information we receive is called:

Sensory adaptation
Perceptual constancy
Visual accommodation
Binocular disparity
#14

What is the term for the process by which we organize and interpret sensory information to give it meaning?

Sensory adaptation
Sensory integration
Perceptual organization
Selective attention
#15

What term refers to the diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus over time?

Sensory adaptation
Sensory accommodation
Sensory habituation
Sensory augmentation

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