Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The process of mixing different colored pigments together to create a new pigment color is called subtractive color mixing.

The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue is known as the ________ theory.

On their trip to the temporal lobes, auditory messages pass through at least ________ lower brain centers.

Which of the following is not one of the five primary taste qualities that humans perceive?

Outside the fovea, visual acuity drops by as much as ________ percent.

The place where the nerve fibers from the eye to the brain cross over from right to left and vice versa is called the optic chiasm.

The ability of rods and cones to change their sensitivity to the amount of available light is called visual acuity.

Discuss the reasons for and effects of hearing disorders such as deafness and tinnitus.

Research indicates that normally there are ________ kinds of cones for color vision.

According to McBurney and Collings, the average threshold for human vision is a candle flame seen from ________ mile(s) on a dark, clear night.

The senses that monitor our equilibrium and awareness of body position in space are the ________ senses.

The term "just noticeable difference" is synonymous with ________ threshold.

Light energy is converted into neural impulses at the optic chiasm.

Hering's explanation for color vision is known as ________.

The process of mixing lights of different wavelengths to create new hues is called ________.

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision are ________.

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.

A person who is blind in one eye can use each of the visual distance and depth cues except ________.

Accompanying sound waves that are different multiples of the basic tone's frequency are called ________.

The neural pathways that connect the eye to the brain appear to process color information according to the ________ theory.