Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The depressed spot in the retina that occupies the center of the visual field in which images are focused most sharply is called the ________.

Trichromatic theory best explains color afterimages.

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are the ________.

Hearing begins when sound waves stimulate the ________.

Our ________ senses provide specific information about muscle movement, changes in posture, and strain on muscles and joints.

The vestibular senses govern our awareness of ________.

The place where sound waves finally reach the receptor cells in the inner ear is the auditory nerve.

Light enters the eye through the cornea.

The process of mixing lights of different wavelengths is called additive color mixing.

The hammer is the closest of the three bones in the middle ear to the cochlea.

The sense of hearing is ________.

The optic nerve is made up of the dendrites of ganglion cells.

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

The phenomenon in which we perceive movement in objects that are actually standing still is known as ________.

Susceptibility to motion sickness appears to be related to ________.

After living all his life in a town that pumps its water from relatively pure underground wells, John moves to a city that gets its water from a local river and must add chlorine to purify it. He totally dislikes the taste of the city water. His friends, who are long-time city residents, cannot understand his problem because they have experienced ________.

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision and the perception of brightness are ________.

The timbre of sound is determined by ________.

The volley principle was developed to overcome problems with ________ theory.

The process of mixing different colored pigments together to create a new pigment color is called subtractive color mixing.