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Describe how sensation and perception work together.

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Explain the difference between bottom-up and top-down processing

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The ability to independently perceive a creature as a “dog” would depend on one’s prior knowledge or experience involving dogs.

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Of the following statements, which does not represent variations in one’s perception?

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What matters to one person may not matter to another.
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What is offensive to one person may be inoffensive to another.
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What is exciting for one person may be frightening to another.
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What is meaningful to one person is meaningful to another.
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Which of the following statements is not correct concerning the relationship between attention and perception?

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Focusing one’s attention on something in the environment is necessary in order to perceive it.
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Individuals have the ability to focus attention on a specific stimulus in the midst of surrounding activity.
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Whether or not people perceive information as meaningful influences their attention to it.
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Individuals can easily detect changes in the environment when they are absorbed in a task.
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Whether or not incoming information is perceived as meaningful influences one's attention to it.

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Choice blindness is an example of what can occur when an individual selectively focuses one's attention on a specific event or object.

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Which of the following statements concerning bottom-up and top-down processing is correct?

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Due to the complexity of the surrounding environment, individuals often use both top-down and bottom-up processing when perceiving.
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Top-down processing is utilized most when individuals encounter environmental stimuli that they are unfamiliar with.
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Bottom-up processing is utilized most when individuals are drawing on prior knowledge to interpret environmental stimuli.
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Bottom-up and top-down processing often cause an individual to experience inattentional blindness.
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Inattentional blindness occurs when individuals do not observe certain objects or events because they are focused on something else.

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When one individual perceives the events of a car crash to be different than another person, which of the following will most likely be occurring?

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One individual is present in a different context or situation than the other person, causing them to have different perceptions.
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One individual is experiencing an alternate reality, which results in a distorted perception.
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Individual perceptions could be influenced by differences in prior knowledge or experience.
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The perception of one individual is distorted because one in five individuals has problems with perceptual accuracy.

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