Title: Chapter 06
Course: Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith Test Bank

Q: Explain how the example of spilling milk (from the Moes and Tellinghuisen chapter on perception) can show that making meaning of one’s surroundings involves both bottom-up and top-down processing.

Q: Give and explain an example of a situation in which a person would have no agency in how attention functions. In addition, give and explain an example of a situation in which a person would have at least some agency in how attention would function. Provide a summary statement of how limited agency impacts what people attend to.

Q: Explain what Moes and Tellinghuisen wrote about the impact of where a person lives (or works) and the role of church involvement in what people do or do not pay attention to.

Q: Moes and Tellinghuisen stress that Jesus’s miracles of healing sensory processes resulted in those healed
- reconnecting with creation and society.
- having superior perceptual abilities than average people.
- experiencing life in a way that agency was no longer limited.
- not experiencing differences between sensation and perception.
A: reconnecting with creation and society.

Q: According to Moes and Tellinghuisen’s chapter “Sensation, Perception and Attention,” long-term changes in attention can be made by
- introspection alone.
- changing habits.
- activating the orienting attention system.
- prayer accompanied by self-denial.
A: changing habits.

Q: Regarding perception, Moes and Tellinghuisen state that the Bible emphasizes that people
- do not usually need sensation to perceive the world around them.
- have the possibility of spiritual perception that goes beyond physical sensation.
- only experience spiritual perceptions that will not impact humans physically.
- usually perceive as God perceives.
A: have the possibility of spiritual perception that goes beyond physical sensation.

Q: The fact that we do not perceive blackness most of the time when we blink indicates an instance in which perceptual processes make meaning of our surroundings
- without conscious awareness of the processes involved.
- only when we consciously supervise those processes.
- when sensations are uninterrupted.
- when perceptions are equivalent to sensations.
A: without conscious awareness of the processes involved.

Q: Agency and intentionality are more apparent during
- bottom-up processing than top-down processing.
- top-down processing than bottom-up processing.
- early sensory processes than later sensory stages.
- responding to strong sensations than to subtle ones.
A: top-down processing than bottom-up processing.

Q: People are predisposed to respond more to
- constancy than to alteration.
- randomness than to patterns.
- change than to sameness.
- sound than to light.
A: change than to sameness.

Q: The Stroop Effect depends on
- misunderstanding language.
- perception being overridden by sensation.
- difficulty sensing color.
- past experience with words.
A: past experience with words.

Q: The “balancing act” that Moes and Tellinghuisen state must be performed by attention is to
- equate bottom-up and top-down processes.
- continue to process what is currently being attended while being able to respond to new, important events.
- perform the Stroop Effect by always getting the color correct.
- weigh personal responsibility with corporate responsibility.
A: continue to process what is currently being attended while being able to respond to new, important events.

Q: When attention is described as “restless” in the Moes and Tellinghuisen chapter on that topic, the authors mean that
- it is difficult to maintain attention toward any one thing.
- people will always pay attention to something.
- attention gets “tired” so we often pay attention to nothing.
- attention is not easily measured.
A: people will always pay attention to something.

Q: Moes and Tellinghuisen, in the chapter on attention, emphasize the importance of where people live, work, and shop for
- how attention can have an impact on relationships.
- why it is difficult for some people to maintain attention.
- whether attention is less impacted by limited agency.
- why meaning-seeking limits attention.
A: how attention can have an impact on relationships.