Perceptual Form Organization
Week 4 - Chapter 4 Review
1. Your visual receptors have begun to receive, translate, and transmit the contours of the letters on this exam to your brain. You are therefore engaged in the process of _____.
a) selection
b) organization
c) reading
d) sensation x
2. The key functions of sensation and perception are respectively: _____.
a) stimulation and transduction
b) transmission and coding
c) detection and interpretation
d) interpretation and transmission
3. When you first put your clothes on this morning you felt them on your skin, but within minutes you no longer noticed them. This is an example of _____.
a) sensory accommodation
b) sensory adaptation x
c) habituation
d) the fabric of your life
4. Pain perception is controlled by _____.
a) the status of the “gatekeeper” in the spinal cord
b) impulses descending from the brain
c) large diameter neuronal activity
d) all of these options x
5. People tend to select stimuli that are ____________ .
a) novel
b) repetitious
c) contrasting
d) all of the above x
6. Children who sing the alphabet song and mistake the letters L, M, N, O, P for the word "elamenopee" are displaying what principle of perceptual form organization?
a) continuity
b) closure
c) proximity
d) similarity x
7. The final stage of perception is called _____.
a) interpretation x
b) conclusions
c) dissemination
d) closure
8. Jake told Mary that he would call her before lunch. At 11:30 a.m. the phone rang and she responded to the male voice by saying "Hi, honey." It turned out to be her boss calling, rather than her husband. Mary 's error illustrates the effect of ____.
a) perceptual adaptation
b) extrasensory perception
c) perceptual set
d) subliminal perception x
9. The picture of the woman that switches between a young woman looking over her shoulder and an old woman consists of stable ____ but discrepant ____.
a) perceptual data; interpretations
b) perceptions; sensations
c) sensory
1. Your visual receptors have begun to receive, translate, and transmit the contours of the letters on this exam to your brain. You are therefore engaged in the process of _____.
a) selection
b) organization
c) reading
d) sensation x
2. The key functions of sensation and perception are respectively: _____.
a) stimulation and transduction
b) transmission and coding
c) detection and interpretation
d) interpretation and transmission
3. When you first put your clothes on this morning you felt them on your skin, but within minutes you no longer noticed them. This is an example of _____.
a) sensory accommodation
b) sensory adaptation x
c) habituation
d) the fabric of your life
4. Pain perception is controlled by _____.
a) the status of the “gatekeeper” in the spinal cord
b) impulses descending from the brain
c) large diameter neuronal activity
d) all of these options x
5. People tend to select stimuli that are ____________ .
a) novel
b) repetitious
c) contrasting
d) all of the above x
6. Children who sing the alphabet song and mistake the letters L, M, N, O, P for the word "elamenopee" are displaying what principle of perceptual form organization?
a) continuity
b) closure
c) proximity
d) similarity x
7. The final stage of perception is called _____.
a) interpretation x
b) conclusions
c) dissemination
d) closure
8. Jake told Mary that he would call her before lunch. At 11:30 a.m. the phone rang and she responded to the male voice by saying "Hi, honey." It turned out to be her boss calling, rather than her husband. Mary 's error illustrates the effect of ____.
a) perceptual adaptation
b) extrasensory perception
c) perceptual set
d) subliminal perception x
9. The picture of the woman that switches between a young woman looking over her shoulder and an old woman consists of stable ____ but discrepant ____.
a) perceptual data; interpretations
b) perceptions; sensations
c) sensory