Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Your ability to associate odors with memories peaks at the age of 40.

Fred found it impossible to read the scrawled prescription on his physician's prescription pad. Fred was relying on which type of processing?

Bundles of axons from ganglion cells make up the __________

The __________ is a measure of the smallest increase or decrease in a physical stimulus that is required to produce the just noticeable difference.

__________ are false perceptions or misperceptions of an actual stimulus in the environment.

What color would you report seeing if a researcher projects the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum onto a screen?

__________ is the way in which information from two different sensory modalities is combined.

Continuity is the tendency __________

The likelihood of an infant being born in the United States with a moderate or severe hearing loss is __________

__________ is the mental process of making sense of sensory information.

A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called __________

What does culture have to do with the Müller-Lyer illusion?

Most research on subliminal perception suggests that it has __________

Your earlobe is formally called the __________

Sound waves are simply __________

Which of the following is true of rods?

The ability to see 3-D movies is an instance of using motion parallax.

This visual phenomenon was first discussed by Max Wertheimer.

Even though the typical retinal image is elliptical, we perceive pennies as round because of __________

Put the bones of the middle ear in the correct order from the eardrum to the oval window.