Receptors for the kinesthetic sense are found in the:
A. cochlea
B. basilar membrane
C. ligaments and tendons
D. joints and muscles
Sensation And Perception Psychology MCQs
The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known as;
A. closure
B. continuation
C. similarity
D. nearness
Attention is aroused by:
A. subtle differences is stimuli
B. bright stimuli
C. contrast or change in stimulation
D. subliminal stimuli
The text’s illustration of the police officer’s faulty “eyewitness” identification is an example of:
A. The fact that perceptions are often reconstructions of events
B. The low degree of accuracy of human psi phenomena
C. Perceptual closure operating in a real life situation
D. An “innocence of vision” in stressful situations
The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:
A. Sensory completion
B. Closure
C. Figure-ground
D. Continuation
Waqas was having his hearing tested and a number of the tones that were presented were so faint he was not able to detect them. These faint sounds would:
A. Inhibit action potentials from reaching the terminal buttons
B. Cause action potentials that were took weak to reach the terminal buttons
C. Fall below William’s absolute threshold for sound
D. Cause more inhibitory than excitatory synapses
The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
A. Transduction
B. Sensory adaptation
C. Parallel processing
D. Accommodation
Which cells for visual processing are located closest to the back of the retina?
A. Subliminal cells
B. Ganglion cells
C. Rods and cones
D. Bipolar cells
While finger painting, Iqbal mixed yellow paint and blue paint and ended up with green, an example of:
A. Subtractive color mixing
B. Divisive color mixing
C. Trichromatic theory
D. Multiplicative color mixing
Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:
A. Sensory interaction; feature detection
B. Sensation; perception
C. Absolute threshold; difference threshold
D. The just noticeable difference; accommodation
