sensation perception learning curve 6a

The smallest stimulus intensity that is detected half the time, on average, is called the _____ threshold.

absolute threshold

Cruz realizes just how loud the building's heating system is when it abruptly shuts off one afternoon in the early spring. That Cruz had failed to notice the system's noise all winter BEST illustrates the concept of sensory:

adaptation

Katrina is driving her 15-year-old car. She notices a sound coming from the engine, which involves _____ perception. Katrina immediately starts thinking that the sound is similar to the sound the car made the last time she had it repaired, which involves _____ perception.

bottom-up; top-down

Sensory adaptation helps people:

concentrate on more important things.

In an experiment described in the textbook, preschool children preferred the taste of french fries served in a McDonald's bag to the taste of identical fries served in a plain white bag. Taste preference is a(n) _____ variable in this study.

dependent

When subjects look at a picture of the Moon's surface, some of them report seeing a human face. This is due to:

schemas

Experiencing sudden pain is to _____ as recognizing that one is suffering a heart attack is to _

sensation; perception

After listening to her high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, Marcy fails to realize that the music is too loud. This BEST illustrates:

sensory adaptation

The minute Beth walks into her mother-in-law's house to visit, she is struck by the strong smell of her mother-in-law's perfume. However, after about 10 minutes Beth no longer notices the smell. This is probably the result of: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. Answer choices

sensory adaptation.

Adlartok's face is completely blank when their usual package delivery driver greets them out of uniform in a café one weekend afternoon. Adlartok's failure to recognize the driver out of their customary context is BEST seen as a failure of _____ processing.

top-down

The local fire department sounds an alarm. The conversion of the siren's sound waves into neural impulses exemplifies the process of:

transduction.