Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Conduction hearing impairment refers to hearing problems that originate in the ________.

In the figure above, seeing rows of 0s and rows of Xs illustrates the Gestalt law of ______.

The eyes detect different colors by using the _______.

Suppose Maria is painting while the sun is setting; once she notices that the room is getting darker, she decides to call it quits for the day. This example illustrates the role of ________.

Rods and cones are connected to ________.

Which of the following are the auditory receptors where sound waves finally become neural impulses?

________ occur when special receptors in the sense organs - the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and taste buds - are activated, allowing various forms of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain.

Figure-ground relationships concern the tendency to ________.

The vestibular sacs control that body's sense of:

Whether you are standing right next to it or a mile away from it, you know a tree is the same size because of________.

The wavelength of the light to reach your eyes determines what __________ you see.

What is the approximate life expectancy of individual taste receptor cells?

Taste buds are contained in the tongue's _______.

Where are the taste receptors located?

The vestibular sense governs our awareness of _______.

Laverne looks at the tongue of her friend and sees all kinds of bumps on her tongue. "Girl," she says, "you sure have a lot of ________."

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

Research on the sense of touch has found that if two objects touch the skin very close to each other, they will be perceived as only one object. The smallest distance between the two objects which can still be felt as two distinct objects is the ______________________.

Perceiving incomplete objects as complete define:

The four primary taste sensations are sweet, bitter, sour, and _______.