To Help Us Make Sense Out of Sensations, Our Brain

question 192

Multiple Choice

To help us make sense out of sensations, our brain creates our perceptions by using preexisting knowledge, such as

• A) transduction and feature detectors.
• B) sensory coding and sensory localization.
• C) the principles of perceptual grouping and perceptual constancies.
• D) the principle of accommodation and psi phenomena.

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