Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Describe the opponent-process theory. What evidence supports it?

With regard to specific meanings of the terms "sensation" and "perception," studies of subliminal stimuli have revealed that subliminal stimuli are _______________.

Sarah fell and banged her arm on the sidewalk. She rubbed the area that was hurt and to her surprise, found the pain actually decreased. How can we explain this?

If you wanted to see as much detail as possible, it would be best to use the ______ so that the light falls on the _________.

Once a light stimulus has been detected by the rods or cones, it is passed first to bipolar cells, and then onto _________, whose axons form the optic nerve.

Let's say that you can just distinguish between 100 grams of Swiss cheese (the initial test stimulus) and 105 grams. According to Weber's law, how much cheese would you need to notice a difference if we changed the test stimulus to 300 grams?

Let's say that you can just distinguish between 100 grams of Swiss cheese (the initial test stimulus) and 105 grams. According to Weber's law, how much cheese would you need to notice a difference if we changed the test stimulus to 300 grams?

The light sensitive layer in the eye, which has the same histology makeup of the optic nerve is called?

The term _______________ means quite literally, "mixing of the senses."

Within the primary visual cortex there are feature detectors for responding ONLY to _______________.

Todorov & Bargh (2002) demonstrated that subliminal presentations of aggressively toned words cause people to judge the ambiguous behaviours of others

The phantom limb phenomenon is caused by

Two complementary processes that take place in attention are

Underscoring the adaptive importance of gustation, nutrients are to ___________ as toxins are to _____________.

Which of the following statements regarding rods and cones is true?

The current theory on colour transduction explains the behaviour of the cones in colour vision as the _____________ theory.

The two complementary processes involved in attention are focusing on certain stimuli and filtering out other information.

Kendra has no trouble seeing the chalk board in class, but she requires reading glasses when reading her textbooks. Kendra most likely suffers from

Sound localization is made possible by how the nervous system processes the time and intensity differences of sounds arriving at the two ears.

Susan suffered from scarlet fever when she was three years old. The primary residual damage is lost hearing in her left ear. Susan has been able to compensate well, asking people to speak louder and always sitting in the front row in her school classrooms. Due to her impaired binaural system, she still has difficulty, however, with ________.