Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Everyone is asleep but you. You turn down the television set's volume until you can just barely hear it. What method of measuring a sensory threshold are you using?

"Single-eye vision is to _______ as double-eye vision is to _______."

Perrone's result, using a rigid box moving away from the observer, suggests that the contraction of the retinal image causes the observer to perceive that the box was moving away and getting smaller. The perception of the box getting smaller SEEMS to violate which of the following?

The shape of the lens adjusts in order to _______.

If a subject in a perception study were listening to sounds and asked to assign one of a provided set of numbers to match to each sound's intensity, the method being used to measure the psychophysical function is _________.

What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

Suppose you look at a given figure and decide that, depending on how you look at it, it can be perceived as either an old woman or a young lady. Such a figure would be said to be ________.

The middle ear includes the ______.

When people are nearsighted, this most likely means that their eye:

An illusion ________________.

Put the bones of the middle ear in the

Decibels are used to measure _______.

The place theory of pitch was suggested by ________.

The fovea is made up of ______.

Which of the following is NOT a monocular cue?

You detect the strong smell of cedar when you enter a furniture store. However, after a short while in the store, you no longer can detect the smell. This process is known as

Describe how sound waves become nerve impulses as they enter the ear. How are the important characteristics of sound coded?

There are seven primary tastes: hot, sour, spicy, sweet, brothy, acid, and bitter.

The outermost part of the ear is called the ________.

Which type of information helps with depth perception?