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1

Human sensory capabilities go well beyond the five basic senses; we are sensitive not merely to touch, but to a considerably wider set of stimuli. Which of the following is not one of those senses?
A)pain
B)pressure
C)supraliminal audio
D)temperature
2

____________ is the study of the relationship between the physical aspects of stimuli (sensations) and our psychological experience of them.
A)Psychophysics
B)Gestalt psychology
C)Biofeedback
D)All of the above
3

When does a stimulus become strong enough to be detected by our sense organs?
A)when it reaches the just noticeable difference (jnd)
B)when it reaches the absolute threshold
C)when it reaches the difference threshold
D)when it reaches the noise level
4

Weber's law predicts
A)that it is easier to identify differences in visual stimuli than auditory stimuli.
B)that a just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the intensity of an initial stimulus.
C)that we are more likely to hear a telephone ringing than notice a flashing red light.
D)the Moon effect.





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