Question: emotions are perceived exactly the same way by all people.

Answer: false.

Question: experiments testing the cocktail party effect, most participants were unable to do any of the following except ________.

Answer: a. detect when the speakers voice changed from male to female.

Question: one’s ability to focus on a specific stimulus among many in the environment is called_______.

Answer: b. selective attention.

Question: three types of inattentional blindness include all of the following except_______.

Answer: a. change blindness.

Question: during the process of perception, the brain interprets incoming stimuli before stimuli are detected by the senses.

Answer: false.

Question: One reason individuals often fail to see the grammatical mistake when reading “I love Paris in the springtime” is because of the influence of ____________ processing.

Answer: b. top-down.

Question: one’s perception depends on the way the brain interprets the stimuli.

Answer: true.

Question: all students perceive poor grades as disappointing.

Answer: false.

Question: people are sometimes able to detect their name being spoken in an alternative conversation even when they are presently engaged in a different conversation. This example demonstrates the ability to hear one’s voice among many when encountering meaningful information, which is known as___________.

Answer: b. The cocktail party effect.

Question: perception is the way we organize or make sense of our sensory impressions.

Answer: true.