Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

The trichromatic theory states that:

Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detector cells in the visual cortex that respond selectively to:

Melissa likes to put her headphones on and listen to her MP3 player at very high volume. This habit will likely lead to her damaging the __________ in her ears, which can result in permanent hearing loss.

Like human infants, kittens are born with the ability to detect horizontal lines and vertical lines. In one famous study, kittens were exposed to either vertical or horizontal black and white stripes. Special collars kept them from seeing anything else, even their own bodies. In what way did the results of this study contribute to an understanding of critical periods in development? What evidence do we have of critical periods for sensory development in human beings?

Neural tissue lining the back of the eyeball's interior is called the _______________.

Bud has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day since he started smoking in 2004. If he quits smoking in 2014, in which year can he expect his sense of smell to return to normal?

Our sense of vision produces a two-dimensional image on the back of the eye, but we interpret the world in three dimensions due to the process of _______________.

The Gestalt psychologists were especially interested in research about _______________.

The intensity of light is related to our perception of _______________.

Normally, kinesthesis and equilibrium work together to give us a sense of our own physical reality. But when they do not, the consequences are profound. What happens to patients whose kinesthetic nerve fibres are damaged irreversibly?

_______________ is what makes a note played on a flute, which produces relatively pure tones, sound different from the same note played on an oboe, which produces very complex sounds.

_______________ can cause the perception of an odour that is constant and unchanging to disappear.

Which of the following physical characteristics of light is related to brightness?

Describe the course of hearing from the time a sound wave passes into the outer ear until the time that a signal is passed along to the auditory nerve.

Chapter 1 pointed out the difference between basic psychology and applied psychology. Distinguish between these two terms. Chapter 6 notes that consumer products are sometimes designed with little thought for visual principles such as those formulated by the Gestalt psychologists. Describe some ways in which knowledge of Gestalt principles could be applied to the design of consumer products.

What are the four basic tastes? What is the fifth taste that has been proposed? What do the textbook authors mean when they say that people live in "different taste worlds"?

The dimension of auditory experience related to the complexity of a sound wave, that is, to the relative breadth of the range of frequencies, is called _______________.

In addition to salty, sour, bitter, and sweet, which of the following has been proposed as the fifth basic taste?

Contrast the reactions of adults who were born deaf and then received cochlear implants to the reactions of adults who became deaf later in life and then received the implants.

In addition to a subject's sensory capacity, signal detection theory takes into account: