Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Based on your knowledge of opponent-process theory, if you stared for a while at a grid of blue and yellow stripes drawn on a page of paper, what would you see when you looked next at a plain white page?

All five sensory systems send information to the brain through the cranial nerves, but one sensory system sends information to the brain through the spinal nerves as well.Which of our sensory systems can also send information to the brain through the spinal nerves?

Prolonged exposure to movement in one direction the motion detectors responsive to that direction.When the movement stops, the baseline firing rate of detectors for the opposite direction of motion will be than the firing rate for the detectors that responded to the prolonged movement, leading to motion aftereffects.

Women are better at identifying odors than men because they have

Studies have shown that women who smell T-shirts worn by different men will express a preference for shirts worn by men who have a complementary immune system to their own.This ability has been taken as evidence of

Encharta is sitting outside, looking at her beautiful garden.As the sun goes down, the colors become less bright and finally all become shades of gray.This change happens because the

Prashanth is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is asked to gradually shrink the image of a square on his computer screen until he can see that it is smaller than a second square on the screen.Prashanth is trying to create a difference in order to allow measurement of an) threshold.

Temperature, pain, and pressure are components of the sense.

Which structure is independent from the pheromone processing system?

Consider the two following patterns: >>>>><<<<< and +++++*****.The 10 characters in the first pattern are perceived as a single figure, whereas the 10 characters in the second pattern are perceived as two groups of five characters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

According to this information-processing model, the recognition of patterns occurs because the data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the brain.

People see the figure ) as an oval rather than two separate curving lines.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Prosopagnosia refers to a deficit in

The minimum amount of change required for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli is referred to as the

Damian frequently runs into Carmen while he is walking his dog.He is puzzled because Carmen always greets his dog but never greets him until he has spoken to her.He becomes even more perplexed when Carmen says, "Oh look, there is Ryan's car," even though Ryan is standing right next to the car.You could enlighten Damian by telling him that Carmen quite likely suffers from

When an artist creates the illusion of depth in a painting, she does so by using

An odor is most likely encoded by an)

The axons from cells form the , which exits the eye at the back of the retina.