You Are Reading the Chapter on Sensation and Perception

Multiple Choice

You are reading the chapter on sensation and perception. You look away from this book, casting your gaze somewhere else in the room. Seemingly in an instant, your eyes come to rest upon some other aspect of your room, such as a lamp or your bed. Introspecting on this experience does not explain how your eyes did the sensing, how the messages streamed back to your brain, or how your brain constructed your percept. This illustrates that the two-step process of sensation and perception is a(n) __________ process.

A) learned
B) unconscious
C) conscious
D) conditioned