Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Rods and cones are connected to ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

The wavelength of the light to reach your eyes determines what __________ you see.

The ______________ carries sensory information from the retina to the brain areas where visual perception will occur.

The eyes detect different colors by using the _______.

Uri is walking home alone on a dark night. He hears a stick breaking and immediately turns to his right to see what made the noise. What cue could Uri have used to tell which direction the sound came from?

_______ studies the relationship between physical energies and psychological experiences.

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensation at all in a person is the _______.

The head can block some of the sound reaching one ear, which makes the sound more intense in one ear than the other. The brain can use this phenomenon-known as a sound shadow-to determine which of the following?

Once sound waves have been converted into neural activity, the ___________ carries them to the brain for auditory perception.

When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones. The tones varied only along the loud-soft dimensions (from very loud to very soft). The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she heard a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's _____________.

Although she is normally not aware of its existence, Ingrid discovers that she has a blind spot in her vision by closing one eye and focusing on a fixed point. What explains why Ingrid has this blind spot in her vision?

Hue, saturation, and brightness are three separate aspects of our experience of:

"Sensation is to _______ as perception is to _______."

There are no effective treatments for phantom limb pain.

A blind spot is a part of the visual field we can't see, where the _____________ connects to the_____________.

Shadowing is a cue to _______.

An illusion due to misleading cues in stimuli which cause us to create perceptions that are inaccurate or impossible is called a(n) _______ illusion.

Keegan notices that his favorite 55-cent candy bar seems lighter than usual and so he checks the label to find that it is lighter by ½ ounce. He decides to buy a larger candy bar instead and doesn't notice that the 99-cent candy bar is also ½ ounce lighter. Keegan's behavior illustrates the fact that:

A student gently touches a staple to her fingertip and to the back of her arm near her elbow. How are these sensations likely to differ? Or would they feel similar?