Question

1.While walking barefoot on the beach, the physical pain one experiences when stepping on a jellyfish most accurately exemplifies?

A.sensation.

B. perception.

C. incubation.

D. photoreception

2. As you walk barefoot in the park, your nose conveys to your brain the smell of the freshly cut

grass; your skin sends information about the feel of the gentle breeze, and your ears transmit the

sound of children laughing on the playground to your auditory cortex. This process of detecting

stimuli in the environment is called?

A.sensation

B. selective attention.

C. sensory adaptation.

D. cognition.

3. Which of the following examples best illustrates extrasensory perception (ESP)?

A. George performs a magic trick.

B. Tony runs faster than the others in a race.

C. Jeff reads another person’s mind.

D. Richard levitates in front of an audience

Answer 1

Question 1

Right answer- A) Sensation

Explanation- Sensation refers to a process by which our brain and body experience the presence of a stimulus. Here the feeling of pain is sensed by the process of Sensation. Perception is when we infer a sensation but here only the feeling of pain is sensed without any forms of interpretation. so we can say here the right answer would be option A) Sensation.

Question 2

Right answer –A) Sensation

Explanation-Sensation is basically a process that we experience from the interaction between our sense organs and external stimulus. Here the examples such as gentle breeze, sound of children’s laugh are the external stimuli which are interacting with our sense organs like nose or skin. So we can say here the right answer would be A) sensation.

Question 3

Right answer- C) Jeff reads another person’s mind.

Explanation-Extrasensory perception is basically what we call the Sixth Sense. It involves the capacity of perceiving something without using the five sense organs. Here Jeff’s ability to read people’s mind is excluded from five basic senses. So we can say here the right answer is option C.