Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

According to the opponent-process theory of colour, if you stare steadily at a black stimulus, when you close your eyes the afterimage will be

Sensation is to stimulus detection as perception is to sense-making.

If your eye were too long front to back, such that a focused image falls in front of your retina and you see a blurry image, you are said to have _____________.

There is a short in the light in Holden's office, so it makes a soft but constant high-pitched sound. Maintenance workers have not been able to fix the problem. When Travis walks into Holden's office, he says, "How can you stand that awful noise?" Holden spends a moment listening and then says, "I don't even hear it anymore." Holden has been exposed to the sound so long that he has experienced

Sammy is a little boy who was born and raised in a large city. When his parents sent him to summer camp at the age of five, Sammy had never been in the country before or seen animals other than on TV. While driving through the countryside on the way to camp, Sammy saw an animal off in the distance. He noticed the four legs, the long tail, and long mane and decided it must be a horse. Sammy was primarily using _______.

The reason why we perceive different groupings of vegetables in the grocery store (e.g., tomatoes and carrots), even though some of them are close together can be explained by the Gestalt law of _____________________.

The sense that provides feedback about muscle/joint position and movement is the ________ sense.

Describe what happens to a light stimulus from the time it is focused on the retina until it arrives at the visual cortex in the brain. Be sure to mention the key cells/structures and their functions.

If you were recording the electrical activity from cells in the visual cortex, you would most likely be monitoring

If you were to look at a very faint light source, it would be best to use the ______ so that the light falls on the _________.

The process of sensory adaptation implies that the human nervous system is most sensitive to ____________ stimuli.

If you had deafness due to damage to your cochlea, you would have which kind of deafness?

Rodney perceives two similar lines as dissimilar because of the context in which they are presented. Rodney is experiencing a(n) _______________.

People with normal colour vision are referred to as

With ageing, the eyeball typically becomes longer over time, contributing to the development of hyperopia.

If the visual image falls too far in front of the retina

Buffy and Faith went to see different movies tonight. Buffy saw a horror movie and Faith saw a comedy. They are in the living room of their apartment when they hear a sound outside. Buffy is convinced that a monster like the one in the movie is on the front porch, while Faith is not concerned. Assuming that Buffy and Faith have comparable hearing and that they did hear something, we can say that they probably are using different

If you were an artist who painted pictures on a canvas, you would probably consider using all of these to create the illusion of depth EXCEPT

The Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory states that we can see colour because the human eye has ____ different types of light detecting cells that _________________.

Quinn has spent the afternoon setting up hundreds of dominoes. When his brother gets home, he comments that Quinn has created an interesting clover-leaf pattern. Though Quinn wasn't aware he was doing this, he is able to see the pattern when his brother points it out. Which Gestalt principle are both boys using?