Exam 7: Sensation and Perception Part 1

Which of the following statements is not consistent with feature analysis?

The phenomenon of size constancy implies that

Natalie sat on her porch looking out at the field of soybeans. The fact that Natalie perceived the soybean plants as being grouped into a series of separate rows is consistent with the Gestalt principle of

A microelectrode is recording the activity from a single cell in the visual cortex of a cat. The cell begins to fire rapidly when a line is presented at a 45-degree angle directly in front of the cat, but stops firing when the line is shifted to a position that is off to the left. In this case, the microelectrode is MOST likely monitoring activity from

Shelby created an animated scene using her computer. She drew a frog as he started to jump, and then drew the frog landing. The computer created 24 pictures between these two points, which adjusted the frog's position very slightly. When the entire sequence of 26 pictures is displayed in rapid succession, the frog appears to hop smoothly. This perception of smooth action is one example of

Quiroga et al. (2005) found individual neurons that would respond to images of famous people. Based on Quiroga's findings, you would predict that a neuron which fires in response to an image of Halle Berry will NOT fire in response to

An inference about which distal stimuli could be responsible for the proximal stimuli sensed is a

Which of the following is the MOST general of the Gestalt principles describing how individual elements are grouped into higher-order figures?

In order to keep focusing on an object as it moves closer to your face, you must

Jacob has been working at his computer for the past 2 hours, and the hum that he found so annoying when he started no longer bothers him. The change in Jacob's sensitivity to the noise from the computer illustrates the process known as

Which of the following statements is MOST accurate?

Sonja put on a new watch this morning and found it uncomfortable because it was so much heavier than her old watch. However, at noon, when a friend asks her if she knows what time it is, Sonja finds she has forgotten she is even wearing the watch. The change in Sonja's sensitivity to the pressure of the watch illustrates the process known as

Joan was sitting talking with some friends when she suddenly left the room to check on her baby. She was sure she heard little Emily cry out, but when she checked, Emily was sleeping peacefully. Based on signal detection theory, the fact that Joan thought she detected a baby's cry would be considered

The function of the middle ear is to

Studies that examine the ability of individuals from various cultures to take advantage of pictorial depth cues present in two-dimensional drawings indicate that the application of pictorial depth cues

The process in which the lens adjusts its shape depending on the distance between the eye and the object viewed in order to project a clear image onto the retina is

The question regarding whether sensory stimuli that fall beneath the threshold of awareness still influence behavior is associated with the concept of

The fact that the corner of a building thrust toward the viewer looks shorter than an inside corner thrust away from the viewer can be accounted for by the

The Gestalt principle of proximity refers to the idea that

The explanation of the Müller-Lyer illusion that relates the lines to inside- and outside-corners accounts for the observation that people from non-Western cultures