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Question 1 1 / 1 pts _______ is the ability to detect a stimulus and, perhaps, to turn that detection into a private experience

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Question 1

1 / 1 pts

_______ is the ability to detect a stimulus and, perhaps, to turn that detection into a private experience.

  

Sensation

  

Discrimination

   

Learning

   

Cognition

 

Perception

 

 

Question 2 1 / 1 pts

The idea that all matter has consciousness is known as

  

empiricism.

   

mentalism.

  

psychophysics.

   

panpsychism.

   

nativism.

 

 

Question 3

1 / 1 pts

JND is the

  

true difference in detection time.

   

smallest detectable difference between two stimuli.

   

difference in detection time for two different stimuli.

   

time it takes to notice a stimulus.

   

judgment of no detection.

 

 

Question 5

1 / 1 pts

The method of _______ requires the observer to alter the strength of a stimulus until it matches some criterion.

  

adjustment

   

sensation and perception

   

limits

   

constant stimuli

   

matching

 

 

Question 6

1 / 1 pts

_______ is the principle describing the relationship between stimulus and resulting sensation that says the magnitude of subjective sensation is proportional to the stimulus magnitude raised to an exponent.

  

Fechner’s law

   

Stevens’ power law

   

Weber’s law

   

Signal detection theory

 

Fourier analysis

 

 

Question 7

0 / 1 pts

If a stimulus is present and the observer reports it as absent, this is called a

   

miss.

   

hit.

   

criterion.

   

false alarm.

 

 

Question 8

1 / 1 pts

The criminal justice system in United States is designed to be biased such that it would rather let a guilty person go free than convict an innocent person. In terms of signal detection theory, the courts would rather have a _______ than a _______.

  

correct rejection; miss

   

hit; miss

   

miss; correct rejection

   

false alarm; miss

   

miss; false alarm

 

 

Question 9

1 / 1 pts

The time or space required for one cycle of a repeating waveform is its

  

phase.

   

sign.

   

angle.

   

amplitude.

   

wavelength.

 

 

Question 10

1 / 1 pts

Helmholtz thought that all behavior could be explained only by

  

perception.

   

physical forces.

   

mental forces.

   

energy.

   

God.