Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

As your eyes focus on an object that is close to you, your eyes turn inward producing muscular feedback. This feedback produces the binocular depth cue called _______________.

Let's say that you are in a signal detection experiment. If I wanted you to have the lowest possible detection threshold, I should

As Jocelyn drives down the highway, in front of her she sees that the two sides of the highway appear to angle toward each other, giving a perception of depth. Which depth cue is being used?

Tactile information regarding sensations such as pressure, pain, and warmth are sent to and processed in the

While walking down the street, you think you see someone who from a distance looks like one of your best friends. You get ready to greet her but when she gets closer, you realize that she isn't the person you thought she was. In this example, your initial perceptual impression was most similar to

One night on a family camping trip, Samantha was lying awake in her tent when all of a sudden, she saw a bright flash of light, so bright in fact, that it light up the entire inside of the tent. Then there was a loud rumble that seemed to shake the ground she was sleeping on. The light and the rumble are sensed by Samantha, and she __________ the phenomena as a thunderstorm.

Damage to which of the following structures would be most likely to cause difficulty with the sense of smell?

A promptness to perceive stimuli in a specific way is called

Damage to the hair cells in the inner ear results in conduction deafness.

The cochlear implant device overcomes nerve deafness by

If you know that two objects have the exact same physical dimensions and you notice that one of them appears to be smaller, you perceive the smaller one as being ___________ and you are using the monocular depth cue of _________ to make this decision.

Of the following, which one is NOT found in the human auditory system?

The ability of our nervous system to localize the source of various sounds is primarily determined by

As you are reading this question, feature detectors in your visual system are analyzing the various stimulus components and recombining them into your perception of letters and words. This is an example of ___________ processing.

Jaspar received a ViewMaster for his birthday. When he looks through the lenses, the image inside the ViewMaster appears to be three-dimensional. This is because each of Jaspar's eyes is seeing a slightly different image of the picture. This is called

All of the following are examples of monocular cues for depth perception EXCEPT

In order for perceptual abilities to develop, critical periods are times when ___________________.

The opponent-process theory of colour combines the dual-process and trichromatic theories of colour.

Research on the impact of cultural factors on perception has found that

When attempting to locate a constellation in the night sky, Sally notices that she can see the stars better if she doesn't look directly at them. In doing this, the light from the star she wishes to see falls away from the fovea to the part of the retina that has a higher concentration of _________, which are better adapted to seeing at night.