Worksheet for Sensation and Perception #2 Name______ Per ___
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Worksheet for Sensation and Perception #2 Name______Per ___
Read pages 157-177 and 183-201 in the text and answer the following questions.
1. Define sensation.
2. Top- down interpretation relies on two things – name them.
3. Absolute threshold is important to sensation because it is______
______
4. The fact that you can have the TV or music on while you do homework is an example of the
brain’s successful use of______.
5. The brain receives information from the environment through our ______.
Name all 5 of them below
6. Why are receptor cells important to sensation?
7. What are the functions of the cones and rods of the eye?
8. What is another name for our sense of smell?
9. List the 4 taste receptors.
10. Define perception.
11. What did Gestalt psychologists emphasize?
12. Gestalt psychologists believe that we don’t focus on individual stimuli in our environment, but
instead we______.
13. What technique does our brain use to make sense of objects and their surroundings?
14. List 4 grouping techniques our brain uses to organize incoming stimuli. 15. ______protects us from falls. Name the experiment that proves
it’s not an inborn skill.
16. What cues do people with only one eye use to create depth perception?
17. List the 3 examples of Perceptual constancy in your text.
18. When we have a mental disposition to perceive something one way or another, we call this
______.
19. Subliminal messages are usually caused by ______.
20. Perceptual set is usually guided by ______, ______or mental
frameworks that help us organize the world.
21. What is context?
22. Why do psychologists study illusions?
23. What is ESP?
24. List the 3 specific areas of ESP and their definition.
A.
B.
C.