Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Vision and hearing are a result of our perception of __________.

The theory that explains how we hear higher-pitched sounds is the ________ theory.

Carlotta is an Olympic diver.This suggests that she trained her _____ to recognize how various successful postures and movements should feel during her dives.

The _____ theory of pain helps explain why it sometimes helps to rub or massage an injured thumb.

The taste that animals are hard-wired to avoid and improves chances of survival by avoiding toxicity is _____.

When you enter a darkened environment, visual processing shifts from cones to rods.This is called _____.

Which of the following neurotransmitters act(s)like morphine to inhibit pain perception?

Exposure to previously stored information that predisposes us to respond in a specific way to related stimuli is called ________.

Sensory detection happens when our_______ detect and process sensory information from the environment.

You are reading the newspaper in the student lounge when your best friend comes up behind you, casting a shadow over the paper.The principle of brightness constancy says that you will _____.

Consider the experiment in which you stared at a green, black, and yellow flag for 60 seconds, then looked at a blank sheet of paper and saw the image of the red, white, and blue U.S.flag.How does the author explain this phenomenon?

Candice is riding with her friends on the twisting and winding roads through the Alps.Candice is likely to experience motion sickness because _____.

Which of the following is a major flaw in the trichromatic theory of color vision?

Brittany received a package in the mail that contained wood pieces she thought must be the new cabinet she ordered, but there were no directions.In order to assemble this cabinet, Brittany must use ________.

_____ is the perceptual organization principle that says that an object that continues a pattern, even when interrupted by another object, will be perceived as a whole pattern or object.

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are also called the_____.

The three full body senses are _____.

When you look up at the sky and simply notice the clouds, you are engaging in the process of _____; when you try to organize the clouds into recognizable shapes or objects, you are engaging in the process of _____.

A thirsty man in the desert looks to the horizon and sees an oasis, but when he arrives at the spot and finds no water he realizes that the oasis was _____.

With respect to sound waves, frequency determines _____.