Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

The terms sensation and perception have the same meaning and are interchangeable.

Which psychological school first identified that visual perception occurs in terms of whole objects rather than individual component parts?

Experiencing MEANINGFUL patterns in the jumble of sensory information received by the brain is _______.

Some people claim to be unable to perceive faces, yet scientists think that they may be able to do so unconsciously. What is the evidence for this?

The visual information from each eye is split at the __________________, with half of the nerve fibers from each eye projecting to each half of the brain.

The process by which rods and cones become more sensitive to light in response to lowered levels of illumination is called _______.

Clearness and linear perspective are examples of _______ cues for depth perception.

The adage "Birds of a feather flock together" pertains most directly to the _______ factor in liking.

How blurry-looking an object appears and linear perspective are cues associated with _______ depth perception.

Neurons cannot fire fast enough to keep up with high-pitched sound waves. Therefore, they alternate firing according to the ______.

What structure is primarily responsible for focusing light onto the back of the eye?

There are two levels of processing involved in color vision. The first occurs in the retina and the second in the nerves cells that relay and process color information. Identify and explain the theory associated with each level. Module: 4.2

As Shane stands between the railroad tracks, the rails appear to converge in the distance. This cue to inferring depth and distance is called _______________.

Special devices called _________________ consist of a microphone, speech processor, and electrodes, which can restore some hearing by artificially stimulating intact nerve endings in the ear.

The process whereby we receive information from the environment through our receptors is _______.

The components in the sense organs that respond to energy are called _______.

The name given to the sense of our body position is _____________.

Visible light with a long wavelength and a low amplitude would be perceived as ______________.

As we listen to music on the radio or on our iPods we often are more aware of the arrangement of tones into melodies rather than just focusing on the individual notes. This auditory perception is compatible with the principles established by _____________.

Elements that share common features such as size, shape, or color are viewed as a set. This defines which Gestalt law of organization?