Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Cliff enjoys eating at his favourite restaurant that seasons dishes with monosodium glutamate giving food a _______________ taste sensation.

The term 'phantom limb' refers to a situation in which someone.

What is size constancy (give an example)? In what sense can certain visual illusions be explained as instances of the misapplication of size constancy?

In general, which of the following is most likely to receive your selective attention? Your instructor ________________.

Define and give examples of the four Gestalt laws of perceptual organization.

Today's best understanding of how colour vision works is based on which theory?

The iris ________________.

A researcher has just found support for the trichromatic theory of colour vision in a new species of cats. What might you expect to find in this cat's visual system?

When Lindsay spins in circles, the fluid in her ear's semicircular canals moves, stimulating the hair cells and sending messages about the movement to her brain. If she spins long enough and stops abruptly enough, the fluid will continue to move, creating the confusing sensation of dizziness. This is probably particularly disconcerting for Lindsay, because her sense of _________________ says that her body is still, but her ________________ sense says she is still moving.

If your eyeball was too short (front to back), such that a focused image falls behind your retina and you see a blurry image, you are said to have _____________.

Kittens raised in environments where they were only exposed to vertical stimuli (i.e., vertical stripes) had visual receptor cells that would only fire in response to vertical stimuli. Stimuli with other orientations evoked no response. This research was discussed as a demonstration of the importance of

The Weber Fraction for loudness is 1/20. So let's say I get you to listen to some music played at 100 decibels. In order for you to tell that a second piece of music was louder, I would need to play it at

If a researcher records a particular stimulus as having a decibel (db) level of 50, what can we predict about this sound?

Describe the stimuli and the receptors involved in gustation and olfaction. Why do researchers sometimes refer to a "common chemical sense"?

In what sense is perception a kind of hypothesis testing? What is the role of perceptual schemas in this process?

Research has suggested that endorphins play a significant role in the phenomenon of menstrual synchrony.

You are in an arena watching a hockey game. Because your seat is closer to one end of the rink than the other, the goalie at the far end forms a much smaller image on your retina than the goalie at the other end. Despite this, you perceive both goalies as being more or less similar in size. What mechanism is responsible for this?

Consider the following image: +. Using ______ processing, we are likely to see this as a horizontal and vertical line intersecting. But using _____ processing, we are likely to perceive this as the mathematical symbol for addition.

As you drive down the highway you notice the highway signs move by relatively fast compared to the mountains. Therefore you know that the signs are closer than the mountains as a result of _______________.

Which of the following demonstrates the phenomenon of brightness constancy?