What Determines How Readily One Can Identify a Person as Belonging

question 90

Multiple Choice

What determines how readily one can identify a person as belonging to some category?

• A) extent to which person resembles prototype
• B) nature of stereotype about that category
• C) extent to which perceiver allows for variation from the prototype
• D) both a and b
• E) both a and c

Understand concepts related to sensory thresholds, including absolute and difference thresholds.

Describe sensory adaptation and its impact on perception.

Recognize the difference between sensation and perception and their interacting mechanisms, including top-down and bottom-up processing.

Comprehend and differentiate among various vision theories such as trichromatic and opponent-process theories.