Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Callie is pregnant.She has never liked vegetables and rarely eats them.However, she does not want her baby to have the same bad eating habits.If Callie wants her baby to grow up to enjoy the taste of vegetables, the most effective thing she can do is

When Margot was a child, her mother baked bread on Fridays.As an adult, whenever Margot smells bread baking she remembers her mother and feels happy.The mood and memories result from the processing of smell information in the

Trichromatic theory is based upon

Avi broke his ankle skiing.At first, he felt a sharp and intense pain.The next day, the sharp pain was gone, but his ankle ached almost all the time.The sharp immediate pain was due to ; the later aching pain was due to .

Salted caramel is popular because the flavor activates which two taste receptors?

The physical properties of a stimulus are translated into neural impulses in a process called

Ayelet is trying to draw a picture of two people on opposite sides of a river.No matter how carefully she tries to draw the two people the same size, the person who is supposed to be on the distant side seems to be much taller than the person who is supposed to be on the closer side.You could explain that the depth cue of means that she will need to draw of the person who is to be seen as farther away.

Sameer is mixing paint.He starts with a very deep green paint and then gradually adds white paint.Sameer is of the green paint.

Sadafa loves Indian food but is careful about what he eats because it hurts his tongue when he eats bitter food.Sadafa most likely is

How are taste buds distributed throughout the tongue and mouth?

Taste receptor cells are to the gustatory system as

The does most of the focusing of the light onto the retina, and the allows for more accuracy of focusing.

When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater, her causes her to enlarge.

Wavelengths of light are to constancy as differences in light reflected off various objects are to constancy.

As part of an experiment, Amanda is seated in front of a blank computer screen.On each trial, a line appears on the screen and then an object appears above the line.The task is to name the object as rapidly as possible.The object is either presented alone or within a scene.For example, a chicken may be presented alone or in a barnyard.People are significantly faster at naming the object when it is presented in the scene.This result is evidence for

were the first psychologists to emphasize the perceptual processes of organizing into wholes.

When the moon is high in the sky it will appear when it is close to the horizon.

M.P.has brain damage in a region that is critical for motion perception.As a result, M.P.perceives moving objects as

Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are, she is assessing differences.When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend's Mexican beer, she is assessing a difference.

Amanda plays the violin professionally and can easily distinguish between a high C note and a high B note.What kind of process is responsible for Amanda's ability to make this distinction and where does it take place?