Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Size constancy explains why ________.

The phenomenon in which we perceive movement in objects that are actually standing still is known as ________.

The autokinetic illusion is exemplified by ________.

When something occurs below our level of awareness, it is said to occur ________.

It is difficult to distinguish between colors at night because ________.

Light enters the eye through the cornea.

Gregory has to paint a room green. He has no green paint but he does have yellow and blue paint. He mixes the blue and yellow paint together to get green paint so he can paint the room. He is using ________ color mixing.

According to Helmholtz's trichromatic theory, which of the following colors does not correspond to a color receptor in the retina?

Peter goes from bright sunlight into a dimly lit theater. At first, he can see little or nothing as he looks for a seat. Over a ten-minute period he is gradually able to see things directly in front of him more clearly. His ability to see things off to the side steadily improves for another twenty minutes. This process is called ________.

The minimum stimulus intensity required for detection is the ________ whereas the smallest detectable difference between two stimuli that can be detected is the ________.

Hering's theory of color vision is called trichromatic theory.

The loudness of a sound seems to depend on ________.

Ashley is doing the lighting for a stage show. One scene requires yellow lighting. She has no yellow lights but decides to make a yellow lighting effect by combining a red light with a green light on the stage. This is known as ________ color mixing.

The physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called ________ waves.

The belief that pitch is determined by the location on the basilar membrane where the message is the strongest is called ________ theory.

In Michigan, an outdoor temperature of 45 degrees feels cold in July but warm in January. This is an example of ________.

When light from a small object is focused directly on the blind spot, the object will ________.

Which of the following is not true of the fovea?

Even though a motion picture actually consists of a series of still frames, we perceive it conveying continuous movement. This is an example of ________.

Nerve fibers from the right half of each eye travel to the right hemisphere of the brain; fibers from the left half of each eye travel to the left hemisphere of the brain. The place where the fibers cross over is the ________.