Exam 3: Extension: Sensation and Perception

The loudness of a sound seems to depend on ________.

When you stop at a railroad crossing at night, instead of correctly perceiving two red lights that flash alternately you may perceive a single red light that moves back and forth from left to right. This is an example of ________.

Which of the following people is most likely to have the sharpest sense of smell?

Because of the way in which your eyes are connected to the brain, visual information from the ________.

A technique by which messages can supposedly be sent to consumers, prompting them to buy a product without their ever being aware of receiving such messages is ________.

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon best supports the ________ theory of color vision.

Which of the following events would be most likely to produce a temporary upset of the vestibular senses?

Rods and cones are connected to ________.

________ is often considered the "dispensable" sense, the one we could most easily live without if necessary.

An object's reflection of a percentage of light relative to that of all the surrounding objects is always the same. This fact best explains ________.