Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

When John drives his car at night, he finds that he can barely see traffic and street signs if he looks directly at them. He can increase his visual sensitivity by looking at the signs:

Which of the following is responsible for your perception that a pencil that is waved up and down is actually flexing and bending even though it is made of solid wood?

Similarity is the tendency to perceive _________________.

A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio. He says that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate unneeded and undesired wavelengths. What term describes the characteristic of sound waves that the sound mixer is now able to alter?

The reason that there are three semicircular canals is so that we ______________.

Continuity is the tendency to ________.

Psychological aspects of pain perception can influence the release of the neurotransmitters called ________, the body's natural version of morphine.

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensations at all in a person is the ____________.

Contiguity is the tendency to perceive ________.

Which of the following is NOT a perceptual constancy?

Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called ________.

The place in the retina where the axons of all the ganglion cells come together to leave the eye is called the ________.

The outer ear is also known as the _______.

Which of the following organizations use the figure-ground effect as part of their clothing?

The opponent-process theory of color vision contends that color vision is a result of:

The components in the sense organs that respond to energy are called _______.

If a child suffers from congenital analgesia, why must he or she be careful when outside playing?

Our tendency to see objects as relatively stable and unchanging despite changing sensory information is called perceptual __________.

Light is focused on the retina by the _______.

The depth cue in which faraway objects appear to be hazy and have a blurred outline is called ________.