Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The process by which sensory receptors convert sensory stimulation-light, sound, odours, etc.-into neural impulses is called

Place theory and frequency theory are two explanations of

What kind(s) of hearing loss can sometimes be helped by a hearing aid that bypasses the middle ear and uses bone conduction to reach the cochlea?

While the trichromatic theory of colour perception was first formulated in the 1800s, research in the 1960s suggested that there were ________ kinds of cones and that each was sensitive to either ________.

Visual information is carried to the brain by the

Compare and contrast the processes of sensation and perception as they apply to vision or hearing.

If your lens is flattened, you are probably looking at an object

Describe the role of endorphins?

Which part of the ear contains the anvil, hammer, and stirrup?

One building partly blocking another is an example of

Weber's Law suggests that the just-noticeable difference is a proportion of change rather than a fixed amount of change in a stimulus.

Describe the Gestalt principles of perceptual organization.

In which of these body locations would you expect to find the least dense concentration of touch receptors?

Visual and auditory information is transduced while other senses are processed directly in the brain.

Looking out over the ploughed Alberta wheat fields, you see that the rows near to you have many pieces of dark soil but rows far from you look more uniform in colour and consistency. This is an example of the depth cue of

Tina was walking through the woods, and she saw something moving. When she came closer to it, she realized the movement was a deer. Being able to identify the animal was a product of

The dimensions of colour that we experience are

Pitch is measured in hertz; loudness in decibels.

As we view people and objects from different angles and distances and under different lighting conditions, we tend to see them as maintaining the same size, shape, brightness, and colour. We call this phenomenon Gestalt constancy.

The process by which sensory receptors convert sensory stimulation into neural impulses is called