Ch. 5

Question 1

Process by which we take in stimulus from environment

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

to get messages that are presented below the threshold for conscious awareness

Answer 2

Subliminal messages

Question 3

refers to the way sensory
information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced

Answer 3

Perception

Question 4

refers to sensory information from a stimulus in the
environment driving a process

Answer 4

Bottom up processing

Question 5

refers to knowledge and expectancy driving a
process,

Answer 5

Top Down processing

Question 6

the failure to notice something that is completely visible because the person was actively
attending to something else and did not pay attention to other things

Answer 6

Inattentional blindness

Question 7

The ability to identify a stimulus when it is embedded in a
distracting background is called

Answer 7

Signal detection theory

Question 8

refers to the length of a wave from one peak to the next

Answer 8

Wavelength

Question 9

Small hair-like extensions
from these receptors serve as the sites for odor molecules dissolved in the mucus to interact with chemical
receptors located on these extensions

Answer 9

Olfactory receptor

Question 10

According to this principle,
things that are alike tend to be grouped together

Answer 10

Similarity

Question 11

becoming less sensitive to stimuli that doesn’t change over time

Answer 11

sensory adaptation

Question 12

Concept of senses working together and influence each other

Answer 12

Sensory interaction