Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

When you are on a small bluff, the ocean sand looks smooth and uniform, but when you sit down on the sand you can see all the bumps and colors.This difference is an example of which depth cue?

The illusion of the Ames room works because

The attentional focus mechanism suggested by gate control theory relies on the notion of what kind of processing?

After leaving the thalamus, axons projecting from tactile sensory neurons project to the in the lobe.

Cognitive factors, including , can close the neural gate in the spinal cord that allows the signals of pain to be sent to the brain.

Amadi is listening to John play the guitar.When John plays a note, the vibrations of the air are picked up by auditory receptors in his ear and sent to his brain.In Amadi's brain, the information from the receptors is analyzed to produce the experience of a musical note.The pickup of information by receptors in the ear is ; the processing to produce the experience of a musical note is .

A gray square is placed first on a white sheet of paper and then on a black sheet of paper.The square will be on the black as on the white background.

You are standing at the intersection of two perpendicular roads.You see one road running north-south and another road running east-west.You do not see one road running north and then turning east and another road running east then turning north.Which Gestalt principle accounts for what you do and do not see?

Which part of the auditory system is most commonly damaged in people who receive cochlear implants?

Colleen and LaVonne are playing darts.Colleen throws her dart into the center of the target, and LaVonne throws his dart into the outer ring.In an analogy to vision, Colleen would have been likely to hit a , and LaVonne would have been likely to hit a .

Alex is at a rock concert.When his ears send a signal to his brain that he has heard a sound, this process is most accurately called .When he recognizes that the sound is his favorite song, this process is most accurately called .

Olfactory receptors are embedded in the

Trichromatic theory best explains , while opponent-process theory best explains .

People with synesthesia who see colors while processing numbers, might have this experience because color and number brain regions are

Days after breaking his nose in a football game, Ben still perceives a dull pain in his nose.The dull ache travels along pain fibers, which are .

David's favorite condiment is soy sauce.Which part of David's gustatory system is responsible for transducing the taste of soy sauce?

Which of the following statements best describes the path of optic nerve impulses in the brain?

In visual processing, ventral is the stream and dorsal is the stream.

There is a loaf of bread behind a container of milk on the table in front of you.You see the bread as a single loaf rather than two half loaves, one on either side of the milk container.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Leonardo da Vinci identified many monocular depth cues, including , in which a nearby object blocks an object that is farther away.