Exam 7: Sensation and Perception Part 1

Blake was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Blake's perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of

According to ____, the ability to detect a stimulus depends not only on the intensity of the stimulus but also on other variables such as the level of noise in the system and your expectations.

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 Bill Clinton will also fire in response to

Sensory adaptation can explain all of the following EXCEPT

The retina is to the eye as the

Perception of color is associated with the

The structure that controls the size of the pupil is the

The lights around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession. However, Jerome did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jerome's perception illustrates

Imagine that biologists have discovered an animal that has eyes very similar to human eyes, but that the only receptor cells in the retina are rods; there are no cones. Based on what is known about human vision you might expect that this animal would

According to the signal-detection theory performance will also depend on all of the following EXCEPT

The tendency to experience a stable perception of an object even though the sensory input we receive is continually changing is

Sound waves, the stimulus for hearing, are

Our perception of the brightness of a color is affected mainly by

As the large butterfly flew toward Richard, he could tell it was getting closer because he could feel his eyes turning inward toward his nose as he watched it. In this instance, Richard was able to judge how far away the butterfly was using the depth cue of

Complex cells in the visual cortex respond to

Light first enters the eye through a transparent structure on the surface of the eye called

The fact that your criterion for "hearing" mysterious noises at night may change after a rash of burglaries in your neighborhood can best be explained by

Lateral antagonism occurs when the neural activity in a cell

The registration of sensory input without conscious awareness refers to

Researchers investigating feature detectors have found individual neurons that are activated by images of specific individuals. These neurons are located in the