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Goldstein & Brockmole: Sensation andPerception Ed 10 Chapter 1 with
Question And Answer A+ guide
Absolute threshold - correct answer ✅✅The smallest
stimulus level that can just be detected.
Action - correct answer ✅✅The behavioral response
which involves motor activity. Step 7 of the perceptual
process.
Bottom-up processing - correct answer ✅✅Processing
that is based on the information on the receptors. Also
called data-based processing.
Categorize - correct answer ✅✅Placing objects into
categories, such as "tree," "bird," "car."
Cerebral cortex - correct answer ✅✅The 2-mm-thick
layer that covers the surface of the brain and contains
the machinery for creating perception, as well as for other
functions, such as language, memory, and thinking.
Classical psychophysical methods - correct answer
✅✅The method of limits, adjustment, and constant
stimuli, described byn Fechner, that are used for
measuring thresholds.
, Goldstein & Brockmole: Sensation and
Perception Ed 10 Chapter 1 with
Question And Answer A+ guide
Cognitive influences on perception - correct answer
✅✅How the knowledge, memories, and expectations
that a person brings to a situation influence his or her
perception.
Difference threshold - correct answer ✅✅The
minimum difference that must exist between two stimuli
before we can tell the difference between them.
Distal stimulus - correct answer ✅✅The stimulus "out
there", in the external environment.
Electromagnetic spectrum - correct answer
✅✅Continuum of electromagnetic energy that extends
from very-short-wavelength gamma rays to long-
wavelength radio waves. Visible light is a narrow band
within this spectrum.
Frontal lobe - correct answer ✅✅Receiving signals
from all of the senses, it plays an important role in
perceptions that involve the coordination of information
received through two or more senses. It also serves
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