Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

When an ophthalmologist surgically corrects a patient’s vision through LASIK or PRK, the doctor is making adjustments to the patient’s

Jamie walks from a bright room into a dark room. It will take about ________ minutes for her rods to fully adjust to the dark.

Fluid located in the cochlea is set in motion and causes vibration in the _________.

Hue, saturation, and brightness are three separate aspects of our experience of:

Detecting "environmental stimulation" is one way to define ______.

The tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related is known as _________.

The minimal stimulus necessary for detection is called the _____________, while the smallest noticeable change in a stimulus is referred to as __________________.

When we look at objects fairly close to us, our eyes tend to turn slightly inward toward each other. This process is called _______.

How is the way the sense of taste works similar to the way the sense of smell works?

Jane jumps out of bed to the sound of the alarm clock. As she reaches her feet, she feels very dizzy for a few seconds. As her system readjusts to her standing, she begins to regain her sense of balance. The source of Jane's dizziness is probably in the:

Frequency theory proposes that:

The autokinetic effect is:

Allison opened her new jigsaw puzzle but soon realized that she had the same puzzle when she was a child. With her past experience to rely upon, Allison will probably use __________ to help her reassemble the puzzle.

Suppose you're driving on a two-lane road on a very snowy night where the divider cannot be seen. However, in your mind, you're able to reconstruct where the divider should be. This example illustrates ________.

If a researcher wanted to know how loudly a person must speak in order to be heard above the noise of two other simultaneous conversations, the researcher would likely measure the ________ .

When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor struck several tuning forks, each of which was a distinct pitch, and asked her to choose two tones that sounded almost the same in pitch. The doctor was testing Ann's _______.

Our eyes don't adapt completely to a repeated visual stimulus because ________.

What color would you report seeing if a researcher projected the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum onto a screen?

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

Light receptors which see best at night are the _______.