Wolfe, Sensation Perception, Sixth Edition

Wolfe, Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition © Oxford University Press, 2020.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1._______ is the ability to detect a stimulus and, perhaps, to turn that detection into a private experience.Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

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a.Learning b.Discrimination *c. Sensation d.Perception e.Cognition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2._______ is the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation.Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

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a.Judgment b.Discrimination c.Learning *d. Perception e.Cognition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

• Chemicals wafting through the air that activate olfactory neurons in your nose is _______,

whereas interpreting the response of the olfactory neurons as smelling like apple pie is _______.Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

• perception; sensation

*b. sensation; perception

• detection; judgment
• judgment; detection
• registration; designation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4._______ is a term from philosophy that refers to one’s private conscious experiences of sensation or perception.Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

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Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

• If you wonder whether your private conscious experience of the color blue is the same as your

friend’s private conscious experience of blue, you are thinking about Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.1 Explain the difference between sensation and perception.

Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

• sensation.
• perception.
• detection.
• thresholds.

*e. qualia.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

• Which approach to studying sensation and perception would be concerned with determining

the dimmest light you could perceive or the loudest sound you could hear without pain?Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.2 Outline the different conceptual approaches to studying sensation and perception including thresholds, scaling, signal detection theory, sensory neuroscience, neuroimaging, and computational models.

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*a. Thresholds

• Scaling
• Signal detection theory
• Sensory neuroimaging
• Computational models

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

• Which approach to studying sensation and perception would be concerned with understanding

how people make extremely difficult perceptual Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.2 Outline the different conceptual approaches to studying sensation and perception including thresholds, scaling, signal detection theory, sensory neuroscience, neuroimaging, and computational models.

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• Thresholds
• Scaling

*c. Signal detection theory

• Sensory neuroimaging
• Computational models

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

• Which approach to studying sensation and perception would be concerned with creating a

computer program that simulates perceptual processes?Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.1 Sensation & Perception: Welcome to Our World Learning Objective: 1.1.2 Outline the different conceptual approaches to studying sensation and perception including thresholds, scaling, signal detection theory, sensory neuroscience, neuroimaging, and computational models.

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• Thresholds
• Scaling 2 / 4

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• Signal detection theory
• Sensory neuroimaging

*e. Computational models

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

• Dualism is the idea that

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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*a. the mind has an existence separate from the body.

• two sensations can co-occur simultaneously.
• one sensation often follows another.
• the body can be divided into two parts.
• All the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 10

• If one believes that human consciousness resides in a spirit, soul, or ghost that is separate

than the physical body, that is the philosophical position called Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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• materialism.

*b. dualism.

• panpsychism.
• psychophysics.
• qualia.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 11

• Materialism is the notion that

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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• all materials influence the mind.
• happiness results from acquisition of material possessions.
• materials are important to functioning.
• materials help the mind.

*e. physical matter is the only reality.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 12

• The idea that all matter has consciousness is known as

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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• psychophysics.
• empiricism.

*c. panpsychism.

• mentalism. 3 / 4

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• nativism.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 13

• _______ was the founder of psychophysics.

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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• Berkeley

*b. Fechner

• Weber
• Plato
• Wundt

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 14

• _______ is the science of defining quantitative relationships between physical and

psychological events.Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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• Materialism
• Dualism
• Fourier analysis
• Signal detection theory

*e. Psychophysics

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 15

• _______ is the smallest distance at which two stimuli are just perceptible as separate.

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• One millimeter
• One centimeter
• The qualia span

*d. The two-point touch threshold

• The Fechner threshold

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 16

• The smallest detectable difference between two stimuli is called the

Feedback: Textbook Reference: 1.2 Thresholds and the Dawn of Psychophysics Learning Objective: 1.2.1 Explain Weber’s law, Fechner’s law, and Steven’s power law at a conceptual level.

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*a. just noticeable difference.

• sensitivity.
• two-point touch threshold.
• amplitude.
• phase.
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