Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Yuming becomes nauseous while driving down a curvy mountain road.Her uncomfortable feeling is due to

Cordelia is massaging her shoulders to rid herself of a tension headache.According to gate control theory, the massage should

In research on signal detection theory, incorrectly "detecting" a stimulus that was not presented in a trial is called a

Melody is looking up a phone number in a phone book with tiny print.She will most likely be able to read the number if she looks at the phone book with her because it has the largest number of .

The pain gate can theoretically reduce the sensation of pain sent by

You wake up feeling disoriented after a long sleep and when you open your eyes, a scene emerges before you.You cannot tell if you are looking at a scene of toy cars driving around a miniature city or if you are on top of a building looking down at real cars driving around an actual city.This illusion occurs because of a lack of constancy.

is the body's detection of external or internal sensory stimuli, whereas is its further processing, organizing, and interpreting of those stimuli.

Avalon spends a minute staring directly at a light that activates her L cones.According to opponent-process theory, what color should she see at the center of her vision when she turns away from the light and looks at a blank white wall?

Approximately what proportion of the cerebral cortex has been estimated to be involved in vision in some way?

The point at which the optic nerves meet and then split is termed the optic

A ganglion cell receives excitatory input from cones that transduce blue light.According to opponent-process theory, what will happen to this same ganglion cell when L cones are activated?

Li-Ting is painting a picture.She paints a vase of flowers and then, right next to it, half of a book.When Bijal looks at the painting, she sees the book as being the vase because of .

According to trichromatic theory, damage to your S cones would most likely result in which of the following types of color blindness?

The primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe?

Dr.Breiland examines the relationship between the physical properties of light, such as its amplitude and wavelength, and humans' perception of color.Which of the following terms most accurately describes Dr.Breiland's field of study?

Which of the following taste sensations was most recently discovered?

Someone who needs reading glasses to see at a close distance has problems the lens.Someone who needs glasses to see objects at a distance has problems the lens.

states that the more intense the original stimulus, the greater the change in intensity required to produce a just noticeable difference.

Object agnosia provides support for the idea that there are two separate streams of analysis of visual information because it shows that

Juan and Joseph are opera singers.Juan is a baritone; Joseph has a higher-pitched tenor voice.The sound waves from Juan's voice are lower in than those from Joseph's voice, and they are lower in .