Exam 4: Sensation and Perception.

The results of ESP experiments have been shown to be influenced by all of the following EXCEPT

Pinching your leg while you receive an injection will lessen the pain of the injection due to counterirritation.

Discuss the process of sensory analysis, and explain how it is both innate and influenced by early experiences by describing the studies conducted by Blakemore and Cooper.

Because our senses select, analyze, and filter information until only the most important information remains, our senses are referred to as __________ systems.

Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow believed that some people perceive themselves and others with unusual accuracy.He characterized these people as especially alive, open, aware, and mentally healthy and found that their perceptual styles were marked by a lack of self-consciousness; freedom from selecting, criticizing, or evaluating; a general "surrender" to experience; and an immersion in the __________.

One study of eyewitness cases found that the percentage of time that a wrong person was chosen from police lineups was __________ percent.

The artist Van Gogh cut off the external part of his ear.A psychologist would refer to the part that was cut off as the

A frog's eyes are highly sensitive to small, dark, moving spots.Since the frog's eyes are attuned to this specific stimuli, the frog's eyes act as

Individuals who have Charles Bonnet syndrome

The final step (within the inner ear)that is required to convert vibrations into sound sensations involves the movement of the

Twenty extremely accurate clocks are locked in two bank vaults (ten in each).A subject who claims to have paranormal powers concentrates on the clocks in one of the vaults, attempting to make them run faster.If she succeeds, she will have demonstrated

Which of the following is the perceptual principle involving the nearness in time and space and which is often responsible for the perception that one thing has caused another?

Chua, Boland, and Nisbett presented American and Chinese participants with pictures of a figure, such as a tiger, placed on a ground, such as a jungle, and monitored their eye-movement patterns.The Chinese tended to focus their eye movements

You are at a carnival and go into a fun house in which mirrors create distorted images of you and your friends, while flashing lights cause apparent "movements of objects" where there is no movement.These are examples of

Special effects for science fiction films create illusions of depth by quickly making the images of planets, starships, and monsters bigger or smaller.They are using the pictorial depth cue called

Reinterpretation in psi research, like Edgar Mitchell's experiment, involves

An eyewitness's confidence is a good predictor that the testimony will be accurate.

Chris lost the vision in his left eye in an accident.Regarding driving and depth perception, which of the following statements is FALSE?

The dramatic increase in retinal sensitivity to light that occurs after a person enters the dark is called __________.

Bottom-up processing is like putting together a picture puzzle you have seen many times.