Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

Aiko is a Japanese national living in America. She invites her American friends to her home and the raw oysters, raw smoked salmon, and raw herring that she serves are well received. But when Aiko's guests notice the raw sea urchin and the raw octopus, they get squeamish, even after she explains that they taste good! Explain the differences in taste preferences between Aiko and her American friends.

One difference between rods and cones is that:

Dark adaptation is the process by which visual receptors become maximally sensitive to dim light.

In signal detection tasks, naysayers will have more correct rejections than yea-sayers.

The smallest amount of energy that a person can detect reliably is known as the absolute threshold.

The information from rods and cones is communicated to ganglion cells by:

The tendency to perceive what you expect is called _______________.

Which of the following statements is true about white light?

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

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding audition?

What is the difference between sensation and perception?

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

The four basic skin sensations are:

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.

The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye is called _______________.

It has been found that humans:

Air serves as the only transmitting substance for sound waves.

The capacity for _______________ protects us in daily life from being overwhelmed by all the sensory signals impinging on our receptors.

The tendency to perceive what you expect is called _______________.

A leading theory of phantom limb pain explains that the experience is due to: