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Package Title: Testbank
Course Title: Real World Psychology
Chapter Number: Chapter 04

Question type: Multiple-Choice
1) Sensation is the process of raw sensory data from the internal and external world and
transmitting it to the brain.
a) detecting, converting, and transmitting
b) selecting and organizing
c) detecting and organizing
d) selecting, receiving, and organizing

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology


2) If three people standing next to each other witnessed a robbery and each person described the
robber differently, then these different interpretations most likely would illustrate differences in
.
a) sensation
b) perception
c) visual acuity
d) perception distortion

Answer: b

Difficulty: Hard
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology

1.3 Describe applications of psychology

Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

,2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving


3) When you look feel something soft on your skin you are engaging in the process of ;
when you interpret the information and realize it is a feather, you are engaging in the process of
.
a) noticing; daydreaming
b) sensation; perception
c) passive observation; active observation
d) perception; sensation

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology

1.3 Describe applications of psychology

Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving


4) Your visual receptors detect the contours of the letters on this exam to your brain. You are
therefore engaged in the process of .
a) perception
b) organization
c) reading
d) sensation

Ans: d

Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.


APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology

,1.3 Describe applications of psychology

Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving


5) is the mind‘s window to the outside world.
a) Perception
b) Sensation
c) Audition
d) Vision

Ans: b

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information. ‗

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology


6) The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory data into usable mental
representations of the world is called .
a) perceptual accuracy
b) illusory perception
c) perception
d) sensory perception

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology


7) Special sensory cells called receptors are .
a) body cells that take in and process sensory information from the environment
b) brain cells that detect and respond to stimulus energy
c) found in the body and the brain

, d) stimulated by perception

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology


8) Tiny cells on your retina are detecting the contours of an animal in your back yard and sending
that information to your brain. These are your for vision.
a) lenses
b) receptors
c) filters
d) transmitters

Ans: b

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology


9) The conversion of sensory stimuli such as light or sound waves into neural impulses is
called .
a) adduction
b) perception
c) transduction
d) subduction

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: Understanding Sensation
Learning Objective: LO 1: Describe how we process and adapt to sensory information.

APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology

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