Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The vestibular senses are concerned with ________.

The tendency to complete figures that are incomplete is known as ________.

The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called _________.

When a warm object is placed against a "cold spot" on our skin, we feel cold. This is known as _______.

When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone. What happens?

The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue is known as the _______ Theory.

When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she started to hear a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's ________.

Which of the following properties of sound is the most similar to the brightness of light?

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called ______.

Laverne goes to a movie theater to watch her favorite movie. About halfway through the movie, she becomes aware of an overpowering hunger for popcorn. What she doesn't realize is that throughout the first part of the movie, a message saying "Eat Popcorn!" was repeatedly flashed on the screen at a speed too fast for her to be consciously aware of it. If her desire for popcorn is due to that message, she is responding to ________.

The part of the ear that equalizes the pressure in the inner ear when the stirrup hits against the oval window is called the:

Briefly explain the concepts of the absolute threshold and the difference threshold.

If a person hears a tone of 300 Hz, three groups of neurons take turns sending the message to the brain-the first group for the first 100 Hz, the second group for the next 100 Hz, and a third for the next 100 Hz. This principle is known as the ________.

People with normal vision will perceive a pyramid whether they see the object from the side, top, or any other angle as long as the object is, in fact, a pyramid. This is the law of _______.

Which of the following is true about cones?

Our sense of taste works when food molecules are ________.

The idea that pain signals must pass through a type of "doorway" in the spinal cord is referred to as the ________.

The ability to discern fine details in visual patterns is termed:

A person who is blind in one eye can use all of the visual cues except _______.

The oval window, cochlea, and basilar membrane are all part of the: