Chapter 4-Sensation & Perception

Name: _______________________________ Date: _________________ Period: _______________

Instructions: Select the correct answer and circle it
1. _________________: The process of transforming stimulus energy to electrochemical energy.
Accomodation/Sensory adaptation/Transduction
2. The ___________________________ are the guidelines used since the 1920s by many theorists
who recognize the importance of figure-fround in perception and organize perception principles by
wholes rather than combinations of features.
Shape constancy/Perceived Motion/Gestalt Principles.
3. The illusion in which 2 lines of equal length appear to be different because of the diagonal lines
attached at the ends is known as the _________________________.
Ambiguous figure/ Law of Pragnanz/Muller-Lyer Illusion.
4. Illusions where the perspective of a picture or the shape may suddenly change in the mind of the
observer is known as ___________________________.
Ambiguous Figures/ Cocktail Party Phenomenon/Perceived motion
5. _________________ states the minimum threshold varies with fatigue, attention etc. and from one
person to another. Difference Threshold/Webers Law/Signal Detection Theory
6. __________________ are photoreceptors in the eye which detect color.
Cones/ Ganglion cells/Rods
7. The ______________________ theory of vision states that there are three different types of cones
in the retina. Opponent Processing/Parallel Processing/Trichromatic
8. Information processing is guided by your preexisting knowledge or expectations is known as
______________________ processing. Bottom Up/Top Down

Turn sheet over for the matching section!!!!

Matching Instructions: Match the definition with the term. WRITE the letter in the blank provided.

1. _____ Acuity
2. _____ Audition

A. Ability to focus attention on a single

auditory source within a jumble of noises
B. Bends incoming light rays

3. _____ Cocktail Party Phenomenon

4. _____ Cornea
5. _____ Fovea

C. Chemicals emitted by an organism to

influence other organisms of the same
species
D. Measurement of the wavelengths that

6. _____ Frequency
7. _____ Gustation
8. _____ Law of Pragnanz

pass a point and determines hue of a light

E. Opening in the iris that gets smaller in
bright light and larger in darkness
F. Sensory system involved in balance.

9. _____ Olfaction
10. _____ Pheromones
11. _____ Phosphenes

G. The sharpness of vision

H. The center of the retina where vision is
the sharpest
I. The highness or lowness of a sound

12. _____ Pitch

13. _____ Pupil
14. _____ Somatosensation

J. The image produced when your eyes are

closed and you put pressure on the
eyeball
K. The sense of hearing

15. _____ Vestibular Sense

L. The sense of smell

M. The sense of taste
N. The simplest organization requiring the
least effort will emerge as the figure.
O. The skin sensations

Answers: Chapter 4, Sensation &

Perception
Vocabulary Test
1. Transduction
2. Gestalt Principles
3. Muller-Lyer
4. Ambiguous Figures
5. Signal Detection
6. Cones
7. Trichromatic
8. Top-Down
Matching:
1. G
2. K
3. A
4. B
5. H
6. D
7. M
8. N
9. L
10. C
11. J
12. I
13. E
14. O
15. F