Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The Young-Helmholtz theory of color vision assumes that:

The vividness or richness of a hue is known as its:

Sensation is _______.

Where are the taste receptors located?

We can see a candle flame at 30 miles on a clear, dark night, and we can hear the tick of a watch 20 feet away in a quiet room. These two facts are examples of ________.

A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called _________.

An oscilloscope is used to _______.

The pupil is the:

Because the eyes are separated by several centimeters, each eye's view of an object is different from the other's. This is called _______ disparity.

As an object gets closer, its visual angle becomes _______, and its retinal image gets ________.

Stimuli that fall below the threshold of conscious awareness are called ________ stimuli.

Which type of hearing problem can be reduced with ordinary hearing aids?

The structures in the inner ear that are particularly sensitive to body rotation are the __________.

Why do perceptual illusions occur? Give an example of a perceptual illusion and explain it according to your answer to the first part of this question.

If a subject in a perception study were listening to sounds and asked to assign a number that is proportional to each sound's intensity, the method being used to measure the psychophysical function is ________.

What's the difference between a monocular and binocular depth cue?

The trichromatic and opponent?process theories of color vision are not in conflict because each corresponds to ________.

Larry has been told by his doctor that he is experiencing ________ due to hair cells that were destroyed as a result of loud sounds.

"Sensation is to _______ as perception is to _______."

Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become _______.