Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

What are the two physical characteristics of sound waves, and which auditory qualities do these characteristics produce?

Describe the sensory principles that are applied to create sensory prosthetics for visually and hearing-impaired people.

What is a perceptual set? What factors can create such sets? How did the Vincennes incident illustrate this concept? How is it involved in perceiving people?

The theory that proposes that the experience of pain results from the opening and closing of mechanisms in the nervous system is called __________ theory.

The two physical characteristics of sound waves are

While engaged in a battle during the war in the Persian Gulf, crewmen operating the radar systems on the Vincennes mistakenly interpreted a commercial airliner as a threatening military aircraft and shot it down, tragically killing all the passengers aboard. This incident was discussed as an example of

Which of these is measured in cycles per second and translates into the auditory quality of pitch?

All of the following are cone sensitivity colour pairs predicted by the opponent-process theory of colour EXCEPT

The most accurate order of the stages in sensory processing and perception of information is from

A researcher is designing a signal detection experiment. She decides to tell a participant that she will lose a dollar for every miss she has, but she will not receive any reward for hits. In this instance, the researcher's manipulation of situational factors, such as the cost for a miss, will likely have an impact on the participant's _________.

Absolute threshold is to difference threshold as _______________.

You and a friend are looking at clouds. Your friend thinks that one cloud looks exactly like a dog. You look at it and agree. Your perception is due to _______, which works by _______.

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

A participant in a signal detection study has the tendency to be bold in her decisions regarding the presence of a target stimulus. As a result, she has more hits, but she also has more false alarms. This example demonstrates how _______________.

Bloodhounds are very good at tracking a person by smell. The Weber fractions (for smell) for five types of dogs are: Targus: 1/20 Bloomer: 1/10 Fugi: 1/15 Cambridge: ½ Otis: 1/8 Which of these dogs has the worst sense of smell?

Like 7 percent of the male population, Lionel is red-green colour blind. Red-green colour blindness is caused by

Janet likes to play her stereo very loud on Saturday nights. Her upstairs neighbour keeps complaining that the rock music is causing his apartment walls to shake. This complaint is valid, as the amplitude of the sound waves _______.

What accounts for sensory adaptation? Of what survival value is adaptation?

What stimulus and personal characteristics influence attention?

If you wanted to achieve maximum visual acuity for a given target, you should