Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

You are told you are going to be shown some words related to food. The experimenter then shows you the word "piazo" and you perceive the word as "pizza." This shows that your perceptions are affected by your ________.

When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones. The tones varied only along the loud-soft dimension (from very loud to very soft). The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she heard a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's ________.

Rods are found ________ the fovea.

Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become ________.

Frequency theory appears to account for the ear's responses to frequencies up to ________ Hz.

The existence of afterimages in complementary colors best supports the ________ theory of color vision.

Which of the following choices is not a monocular cue that painters can incorporate into their work to convey information about the relative distances of objects?

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 ________.

The receptor cells for hearing in the inner ear are the ________.

Susceptibility to motion sickness appears to be related to ________.

Describe the route a sound wave must take to go from the outer ear to be registered in the brain. Be sure to name the structures of the ear that are relevant to this journey and what effect each of these structures has on the sound wave.

Combining red, green, and blue lights in equal intensities produces ________.

Compare and contrast sensation and perception. Also, describe the sequence of events that produces a sensation.

Information from the skin's nerve receptors goes primarily to the ________ lobes of the brain.

Flavor is ________.

Motion sickness arises in the ________.

For humans, the ability to ________ is probably the most important sense.

Our skin is our largest sense organ.

Certain animals can change their colors to match their surroundings and thereby escape predators. This camouflage is effective because it ________.

The inner lining on the back of the eyeball containing receptor cells that are sensitive to light is called the ________.