Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Many people think that they can multitask, but research on _______ suggests that we can only fully attend to one thing at a time.

Rita controls herself from slipping on black ice because of information on bodily balance from her _______________.

What is dark adaptation? What does the process of dark adaptation tell us about how the visual system works?

If a very large football player is standing on the other side of a football field, he will only be projected onto a small area of your retina. Indeed, it will be much smaller than the area projected by the elementary school-aged child standing next to you. Yet you perceive the football player to be taller than the child because of _______________.

Imagine you are a researcher who is measuring the response of individual neurons. One neuron you're measuring only responds to a certain type of lego block that is oriented one way. A second neuron only responds to that type of lego block oriented a different way (e.g. rotated 90 degree). These would likely be found in _____ and are known as _____.

Michelle turns off all her downstairs lights and starts up the steps, only to trip over her cat, which she cannot see in the dark. The cat wonders why Michelle steps on her at night but not during the day-after all, the cat can see just fine. Michelle and her cat have different ___________________ for light.

Some towns are changing the colour of their fire engines from red to yellow-green. This is because this colour increases the dim-lighting visibility of the trucks to

Kathy is a monochromat. You would expect her to be able to see

A person with a deficiency in only one of the colour systems, such as red-green, would be considered a ___________, whereas someone who is colour-blind in both of the colour systems is labelled a _____________.

In a study discussed in the text, participants were presented with pictures of groups of people. In some of the pictures, people had the same emotion (either all angry or all happy) while in others there was one discrepant face in the group (either one angry face in a happy group or one happy face in an angry group). When participants were asked to determine whether there was a discrepant face in any of the photos, the researchers found that

Entering a dark theatre from the bright outdoors, Pam stumbles as she cannot see anything. Gradually she is able to see everything in the theatre's dim light. Her improvement in brightness sensitivity is known as _______________.

If you were born without cochlear nerves, we still might be able to restore some of your hearing. Which of the following procedures would we have to examine?

Visual illusions are of particular interest to researchers studying perception because they

Which of the following is TRUE about subliminal stimuli, they can?

The place theory of pitch perception states that pitch is determined by

The Gestalt law of proximity states that elements that are near one another are likely to be perceived as part of the same configuration.

While conducting research in Africa, a scientist discovers a new species that is only active at night. We would expect this animal's light receptors to consist mostly of _______________.

The fact that a door appears to have the same shape whether we look at it from the side or front-on is an example of what is called a perceptual constancy.

The tactile information regarding pressure, pain, and warmth are sent to and processed in the _______________.

Someone who suffers from hyperopia