Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

Tory eats a low-salt potato chip and spits it out and says, "That's so salty!" She also cannot eat Brussels sprouts, pickles, or anything with a lot of saccharin in it because it tastes "too bitter." It is likely that Tory is a(n):

Which of the following is a true statement?

In a signal detection task, the participant reports a signal when no signal was present. This is called a _______________.

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

Research on rods and cones has revealed that:

Although the human senses are very sensitive:

Signal-detection theory assumes that:

Describe in detail four psychological factors that can influence what we perceive and how we perceive it.

What did Johannes Müller propose in his doctrine of specific energies?

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

Research conducted with two-month-old babies and the visual cliff shows that the babies:

The snail-shaped, fluid-filled organ in the inner ear is called the _______________.

Research on taste shows that:

Jamal has a condition that makes his skin very itchy; the itch cannot be relieved with antihistamines. He is wondering how his nervous system detects the "itch" sensation and through a bit of research discovers that itch is mostly closely associated with the skin sense of:

_______________ is a set of mental operations that organize sensory impulses into meaningful patterns.

The dimension of auditory experience related to the frequency of the sound wave and, to some extent, its intensity is called _______________.

_______________ is a sensory crossover condition where stimulation of one sense consistently evokes a sensation in another.

Sarah says that certain colours make her experience different smells. For example, she says that the colour purple smells like a rose to her. Sarah is displaying the symptoms of:

The auditory receptors are located in the _______________.

Much of the evidence for ESP comes from _______________.