Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Differentiate between hue, brightness, and saturation. Also, compare and contrast additive and subtractive color mixing.

The conversion of sensory information into coded neural signals is called ________.

Our skin senses are influenced by our expectations.

People who tend to perceive the elements of their environment as separate and distinct from one another are called ________.

If you place a stick in the water, the part of the stick that is under the water appears bent. This is an example of ________.

Decibels are used to measure ________.

Texture gradients, shadowing, and motion parallax are all types of monaural cues.

The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue is known as the ________ theory.

Size constancy explains why ________.

Any stimulation below the absolute threshold will not be experienced.

Frequency theory proposes that ________.

A technique by which messages can supposedly be sent to consumers, prompting them to buy a product without their ever being aware of receiving such messages is ________.

The autokinetic illusion is exemplified by ________.

The process of creating meaningful patterns from raw sensory information is ________.

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

The brightness of a color depends on the ________.

The sense of hearing is truly unilateral.

The skin senses are the only ones that do not undergo sensory adaptation.

The apparent motion created by a rapid series of images of stationary objects is called the autokinetic illusion.

Sound is a physical event caused by vibration.