Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Shaun cannot recognize shades of green. Shaun is most likely __________

When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone. What happens?

Boring's "Old Woman/Young Woman" picture is an example of __________

The idea that extrasensory perception (ESP) exists has been completely rejected by the use of the Ganzfeld procedure.

__________ are the raw data of experience, based on the activation of certain receptors located in the various sensory organs.

The fovea is made up of __________

While walking at night, Sharon can easily see objects around her. The cells of her eye that she is relying on are called __________

Men are more likely to be color blind than are women.

Sensation and perception are essentially the same process.

Which is the best description of the skin senses?

__________ is the process of selecting some sensations for further processing.

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision are __________

If you are like most people, which sense do you regard as the most valuable?

There are seven primary tastes: hot, sour, spicy, sweet, brothy, acid, and bitter.

Analyzing smaller features and building up to a complete perception is called __________

__________ furnishes the raw material of sensory experience, whereas __________ provides an interpretation of that material.

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

The lowest intensity of a particular stimulus that enables the average person to detect that stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the __________

Perception is the __________

Extrasensory knowledge of someone else's thoughts and feelings is called __________