Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

While shopping for new wallpaper for your child's bathroom,you are attracted to a very "busy" pattern of cartoon characters that are dancing all over the wall.Because there are multiple features to attend to in this stimulus,which type of feature detectors are being stimulated in your eyes?

The Gestalt principle called the law of pragnanz suggests which of the following about our perceptual tendencies?

Color __________ is the tendency to perceive familiar objects as retaining their color despite changes in sensory information.

The amplitude of a sound wave is related to the volume of the sound experience.

While shopping for new wallpaper for your bathroom,you are attracted to a very pretty pattern of vertical stripes with horizontal rows of flowers.Because there are two visual details in this pattern,which type of feature detectors are being stimulated in your eyes?

When you insert your house key into the lock on your front door,very specific grooves in that key trigger tumblers to open the lock.In the very same way __________ detectors are specialized brain cells that only respond to particular elements in the visual field.

Which of the following sensory systems can be involved in a case of synesthesia?

A process by which a person adjusts to changes in the environment by adjusting sensory input is known as sensory __________.

A person who 'tastes sounds' suffers from a disorder called synesthesia.

The _________ effect is a phenomenon in which selective attention allows a person to concentrate on one voice and ignore many others.

Mrs.Petraglia is the teacher of a 3rd grade class,and the kids are working on learning how to write sentences and paragraphs.Even though all of the students have very different handwriting - some neat,some sloppy,some nearly unintelligible - Mrs.Petraglia is able to read the words of all of her different students because she expects to see certain letters and certain words on the papers.Which theory of perception explains why Mrs.Petraglia can read her students' various handwriting?

Some studies suggest that there is a critical period shortly after birth during which normal sensory and perceptual development takes place.

The smallest amount of energy needed for a person to detect a stimulus 50% of the time is called the absolute threshold.

While shopping at a department store,an ambitious young saleswoman walks up to you."Would you like to try our newest perfume? It's called Allure,and it is guaranteed to get the attention of that special someone because it is formulated with real human pheromones!" Because you've recently had an interest in a new "special someone," what would be your best option in this situation?

Which of the following terms is the best synonym for the word "acuity"?

Your brain's ability to multitask is referred to as ___________ processing.

In the visual cortex,__________ cells respond to single features in the visual field,while _________ cells respond to two features of a visual stimulus.

If you are handed a coffee cup and instantly see it as a combination of a circle (the base),a cylinder (the sides),and a crescent (the handle),then you are demonstrating the __________ theory of perception.

Human beings have the ability to selectively filter out certain sensations so that we don't experience them.

The Rubin Vase is an example of which perceptual phenomenon?