1. My wife will tell you that she sometimes experiences saying something to me, and then finding that I am asking her to repeat what she said because I had been distracted by something else (she is a very patient woman). I didn't hear her the first time because of:
a. in-attentional blindness.
b. insensitivity.
c. signal detection.
d. sensory deprivation.
2. If you look at an object first through your right eye (with the left eye closed) and then with your left eye (with the right eye closed), the object looks slightly differently each time. When the images from right and left eyes are integrated in the brain, it contributes to your seeing the object in three dimensions. This is called:
a. retinal disparity.
b. convergence.
c. interposition.
d. motion parallax.
3. Athletes, dancers, and performance artists each have a strong sense of their body and its movements in space. They are strong, in other words, in:
a. vestibular sense.
b. sensory adaptation.
c. kinesthesis.
d. motion parallax.
4. What is the difference between sensation and perception?
a. Sensation is the interpretation of sensory information and perception is the detection of sensory stimuli.
b. Nothing. They are the same thing.
c. Perception refers to what goes on in the sensory organs and sensation is what happens in the brain.
d. Sensation is the detection of sensory stimuli and perception is the interpretation of sensory information.
5. In addition to a person's sensory capacity, signal detection theory takes into account:
a. the person's decision process and response bias.
b. the tendency for the person's performance to worsen over time.
c. the amount of practice a person has had.
d. the tendency for the person's performance to improve over time.
6. _______________ is a measure of the smallest amount of energy a person can reliably detect.
a. Sensory sensitivity
b. Absolute threshold
c. Difference threshold
d. Sensory adaptations.