Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Jennifer plays her music very loud while she studies. Upset by how loud the music is, her mother insists Jennifer turn the music down. After 10 minutes, Jennifer's mom asks her daughter once again to please turn down the volume of the music. Jennifer insists she already turned it down although her mother swears it is as loud as it always was. The fact that Jennifer hears the music as softer and her mother experiences the volume as unchanged indicates that, clearly, Jennifer and her mother have different ______.

While driving home one evening, Owen is so involved in his cell phone conversation that he doesn't notice an empty car at the side of the road and hits it. Owen is all right, but since it wasn't yet dark, the police say Owen should have had no problems seeing the car. When they learn he was talking on his phone, they say that because he was distracted, other stimuli didn't register in his consciousness. This phenomenon is referred to as

Pain has ______________ components.

The trichromatic theory of colour vision seems reasonable, but it has trouble explaining _____, which be best explained by ______.

An Iranian airliner was shoot down by the Iranian military in January of 2020. Rather than an deliberate act, this may have been the result of

One hertz (Hz) is equivalent to ________ cycle(s) per second.

If your lens in the eye did not thicken enough, such that a focused image falls behind your retina and you see a blurry image, you are said to have _____________.

Amanda's teenage son Brad plays his music very loud. Amanda now asks him to wear earphones but she can still hear the music when he has the earphones on. Brad should be concerned because

A person with normal colour vision is referred to as a

The visual receptors in the eyes function best in dim lighting and are primarily black-and-white brightness receptors. These are called ________________.

Which of the following is the first structure in the auditory system that is hit by sound waves?

All of these are found in the retina EXCEPT

You are in an arena watching a hockey game. Despite the fast pace of the game and constant movement of the players, you find it relatively easy to keep track of who is on which team. What is one factor that can help explain how you are able to group the players into their respective teams?

Weber's law states that the difference threshold is directly proportional to the ____________ of the stimulus with which a comparison is being made.

Dr. Richards is trying to explain why we are able to see colour afterimages. She should probably explain this by referring to

It has been argued that each of our perceptions is similar to a hypothesis that is tested by comparing incoming stimuli to a pre-existing _____________.

The cochlear duct in the inner ear is also termed?

Sean and Sue were standing outside one night, looking at the stars and enjoying the beautiful evening. Sean notices that the moon is full and comments on the perfect circular shape to Sue. Sue, however, knows the full moon is not for two more nights and, when she looks closely, can see that a small sliver of the circle is missing. Sean continues to swear the moon is full because of the

Which of the following is NOT considered a monocular cue for depth?

Research using the shadowing technique to study attention has led psychologists to conclude that