Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

What two complementary processes occur in attention? What are their adaptive benefits?

A rock band recently covered (i.e., remade) a classic country song. Though the band uses different kinds of instruments and a different tempo, Colby still recognizes it due to

Bob is a participant in a signal detection study. On the last clinical trial, Bob said that he saw a stimulus and in fact there was no stimulus present. Bob's answer would be classified as a

Recognizing familiar stimuli under varying conditions and in different contexts is called ___________.

Which of the following statements regarding menstrual synchrony is true?

Joey has no trouble seeing when he's reading books and working on his computer, but he has a fair amount of difficulty seeing things in the distance. Joey most likely suffers from

According to the Gestalt principle of ___________, we have a tendency to perceive objects that are near one another as belonging together.

The Gestalt law that holds that people link individual elements together in such a way that they forman uninterrupted line or pattern that makes sense is called the Gestalt law of ___________.

Scientists created a visual cliff by placing a thick sheet of clear glass over a drop-off. They found that by the time children are old enough to crawl, they will not venture over the "edge" of the "cliff." What skill have the children developed that makes them wary?

In general, men's voice should contain sound waves with ___________ frequency as/than women's voice.

In the human eye, light is focused on the back of the retina by the ________________.

Juan can see black and white plus some colour. Juan is

The senses of gustation and olfaction are somewhat unique in that their receptors are sensitive to chemical molecules rather than to ________.

Differentiate between bottom-up and top-down processing of sensory information.

Owls are nocturnal animals and have exceptional night vision. Because they are generally not active during the day, they have not developed an ability to see colours-they see only black and white. Given this information, we can conclude that owls have

The normal stimulus for our sense of vision is _______________.

A measurement in cycles per second and that is translated into the auditory quality of pitch is called _____________.

Describe how the middle and inner ear structures are involved in the auditory transduction process.

Once a light stimulus has been detected by the rods or cones, it is passed first to ____________ cells.

The Gestalt law that asserts that objects near one another are more likely to be perceived as belonging together is the Gestalt law of __________.