Sensation and Perception: Understanding the World Around You

1. Preassement to Sensation and Perception Number 1 to

2. Question 1 • You can see color in your peripheral vision

3. Question 2 • Receptor cells allow you interpret what is going on your world

4. Question 3 • Sensation refers to the process of getting information from the world to our brain.

5. Question 4 • If you stay in a hot tub it will seem as hot as it did when you first got in it. Sensory adaptation refers to the decline in sensitivity to a constant stimuli.

6. Question 5 • Our interpretations of the world are due to our personal sensations.

7. Question 6 • The colored part of the eye, which is actually a ring of muscles that controls the size of the pupil, is called the iris

8. Question 7 • The eardrum is interprets sound waves for the brain so that we can hear.

9. Question 8 • Soap operas are so popular because people can relate to the people in the stories.

10. Question 9 • The ability to see depth can only be accomplished with two eyes.

11. Question 10 • People judge people based on what groups they belong

12. Question 11 • On a clear, dark night we can see a candle flame 30 miles away.

13. Question 12 • Advertisers are able to shape our buying habits through subliminal messages

14. Question 13 • If we stare at a green square for a while and then look at a white sheet of paper, we can see red

15. Question 14 • If we close our eyes and hold our nose, we cannot taste the difference between an apple and a raw potato.

16. Question 15 • If required to look through a pair of glasses that turns the world upside down, we soon adapt and coordinate our movements without difficulty.

17. Question 16 • If people are told that an infant is “David”, they are likely to see “him” as bigger and stronger that if the same infant is called “Diana.”

18. Question 17 • Laboratory evidence clearly indicates that some people do have ESP

19. Answers to the preassessment

20. Question 1 - False • You can see color in your peripheral vision False – we can only see in black and white in our peripheral vision

21. Question 2 - TRUE • Receptor cells allow you interpret what is going on your world – the translate for the brain

22. Question 3 - True • Sensation refers to the process of detecting a physical stimulus, such as sound, light, heat, or pressure

23. Question 4 - False • Sensory adaptation refers to the decline in sensitivity to a constant stimuli. – So the hot tub will no longer be as hot

24. Question 5 - False • Our interpretations of the world are due to our personal Perceptions. • The process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensations is called Perceptions.

25. Question 6 - True • The colored part of the eye, which is actually a ring of muscles that controls the size of the pupil, is called the iris

26. Question 7 - False • The cochlea (with the hair cells) interprets sound waves for the brain so that we can hear. • The eardrum amplifies the sound

27. Question 8 - False • Soap operas are so popular because people can relate to the people in the stories. • It is because people want closure – generally people dislike things that are not finished

28. Question 9 - False • The ability to see depth can only be accomplished with two eyes. • We can see depth with one or both of our eyes

29. Question 10 - TRUE • People judge people based on what groups they belong

30. Question 11 - True • On a clear, dark night we can see a candle flame 30 miles away.

31. Question 12 - False • Advertisers are able to shape our buying habits through subliminal messages • It would be through direct marketing of products

32. Question 13 - True • If we stare at a green square for a while and then look at a white sheet of paper, we can see red

33. Question 14 • If we close our eyes and hold our nose, we cannot taste the difference between an apple and a raw potato.

34. Question 15 - True • If required to look through a pair of glasses that turns the world upside down, we soon adapt and coordinate our movements without difficulty.

35. Question 16 - True • If people are told that an infant is “David”, they are likely to see “him” as bigger and stronger that if the same infant is called “Diana.”

36. Question 17 - False • Laboratory evidence clearly indicates that some people do have ESP • Laboratories have not been able to prove this