Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

About ________ percent of the primary visual cortex is dedicated exclusively to analyzing input from the fovea, which is a very small but extremely important part of the retina.

Which of the following physical properties of light contribute to your experiences of hue or colour?

After working for several hours at a computer terminal and using the word processor to prepare a term paper, the fact that you no longer hear the hum of the computer's electrical system is a result of

________, or what you expect to perceive, determines to a large extent what you actually see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.

Neural impulses are carried from the retina to the thalamus by the ________ and then relayed to their final destination, the ________.

The receptors that detect movement and provide information about orientation in space are located in

The retina is about the size of

What are the lens and the retina?

Which of the following colours has the shortest wavelength (i.e., is lowest in nanometres)?

The receptor cells for taste

The two-point threshold varies for different parts of the body.

In order to create the perception of depth, painters sometimes use all of the following, except

Which of the following is not true of sensory receptors?

Hue is to ________ of light as brightness is to ________ of light.

The tough, transparent, protective layer covering the front of the eye is called the

How does the olfactory sense work and how is it unique from other senses?

The tendency to perceive figures or objects as belonging together if they appear to form a pattern is called

What are some major causes of hearing loss?

The ophthalmologist is examining a part of your eye in which you have mostly rods. She is looking at which portion of the retina?

The Gestalt principle of closure refers to our tendency to complete figures with gaps in them.