Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Afterimages are caused by ________.

Saturation and brightness combine with hue to give us about ________ different colors.

An illusion due to misleading cues in stimuli which cause us to create perceptions that are inaccurate or impossible is called a(n) ________ illusion.

To rewrite Gertrude Stein's famous line a bit, a "rose looks like a rose looks like a rose." And it does whether you look at it from above or below, from the left or the right. This rather amazing phenomenon generally goes by the name of ________.

The process by which rods and cones become less sensitive to light is called ________.

How is perception affected by perceptual constancies? Describe the effects of size, shape, brightness, and color constancy on perception. What role does memory play in such constancies?

Helmholtz's theory of color vision is known as trichromatic theory.

Interposition, linear perspective, and elevation are all types of binocular cues.

Research indicates that ________ influence(s) perception.

The monocular distance cue in which objects closer than the point of visual focus seem to move in the direction opposite to the viewer's moving head, and objects beyond the viewing point move in the same direction as the viewer's head is ________.

There are two major theories of pitch discrimination - ________.