Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

When Bethany steps on her digital scale, a mechanism in it measures the physical pressure pushing down on the scale and converts it into an electrical signal that can be read by the scale. The converting of the physical pressure on the scale caused by Bethany's weight into an electrical signal is similar to the process of ____________.

Which of the following is true of the fovea?

What structure in your eye is most like the film in a camera?

The purity, richness, or vividness of a hue is known as its __________.

A familiar person walks into the room. Which of the following choices places the structures in the appropriate sequence required to recognize the individual?

Kevin watches as his wife Denise walks toward the house. Even though Denise fills more and more of Kevin's visual field as she approaches, she does not appear to be growing larger as she moves closer to Kevin. This illustrates ______________.

__________ involves the detection of energy by sense organs, whereas __________ involves interpreting sensory inputs.

Perceptions differ from sensations in that:

Why are we normally unaware of the blind spot in our vision?

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called __________.

The physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called __________ waves.

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called _________________.

Which of the following is NOT a perceptual constancy?

Cones are predominantly gathered in a central part of the retina known as the _____.

___________ hearing loss results from damage to the cochlear hair cells and the neurons making up the auditory nerve.

The pupil is the:

The processing of sensory information that occurs below the level of conscious awareness is called ____________.

The pupil is the __________.

According to the gate-control theory of pain, which of the following would be an effective way to decrease the pain of banging your elbow?

The colored part of the eye which contains muscles to contract or expand the pupil is the __________.