Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

When light enters the eye, it first passes through what structure?

Whether you are standing right next to it or a mile away from it, you know a tree is the same size because of _______.

The flexible membrane inside the cochlea is called the:

The complex flavors we experience when we bite into a great sandwich are due to:

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are the _______.

What sensations are detected by the skin?

The trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision are not in conflict because each corresponds to:

The relation between the amount of physical energy in a stimulus and the sensory experience of that stimulus is studied by:

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

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon best supports the:

Light waves from a blue shirt stimulate different photoreceptors than light waves coming from a red shirt. The fact that we see these shirts as two different colors can be explained by _____.

The role of the photoreceptors in the eye is to convert the physical stimulus of light into a nerve impulse that can be relayed to the brain. This process is known as _________________.

Tom spent the morning taking pictures in the small coves of a local lake. What monocular cue is providing depth perception when the near objects in his photographs appear much larger than those on the opposite shore of the cove?

Which type of receptor cell is associated with seeing colors?

Gestalt theorists propose that much of what we see is divided into:

When focusing on a close object that is directly in front of you, eye muscles contract to turn your eyes inward towards the nose. This is called _______________.

_______ theory was developed to isolate separate measures of sensory sensitivity and decision criteria used.

Rods and cones are found in the _______.

Railroad tracks converging in the distance best illustrate which monocular cue?

If a researcher wanted to know how loudly a person must speak in order to be heard above the noise of two other simultaneous conversations, the researcher would likely measure the ________.