Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The fact that your eyes rotate in their sockets, either getting closer or farther from each other, as an object changes its distance from you is a binocular distance cue called __________.

The term photon refers to __________.

A student takes a drug that distorts perception. He holds up his hand right in front of his face. Horrified, he yells, "I have a giant hand!" Most likely the drug interfered with __________ constancy.

A dichromat __________.

Which of the following is a characteristic of both light waves and sound waves?

One of your mother's siblings puts together awful-looking colors when getting dressed. Who is this person more likely to be?

The fact that, when we look at an object, each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of the object is known as __________.

You are seated at a small table talking to a friend opposite you who is drinking coffee. As she lifts the cup off the saucer and raises it to her mouth, the image made on your retina by the bottom of the cup actually changes shape, but you still "see" it as round due to __________.

Light enters the eye through the __________.

In the process known as __________, sensory receptors become less sensitive to repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

The distance cue in which objects at greater distances appear to be smoother is __________.

When Scarlett went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Scarlett through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The doctor asked Scarlett to raise her hand whenever she started to hear a sound. The doctor was testing Scarlett's __________.

Figure-ground relationships concern the tendency to __________.

Suppose you're driving on a two-lane road on a very snowy night where the divider cannot be seen. However, in your mind, you're able to reconstruct where the divider should be. This example illustrates __________.

Which of the following is the newest of the five basic tastes to be discovered?

The ability to see 3-D movies is an instance of using motion parallax.

A person with red-green color blindness will see the world in __________.

The kinesthetic senses are concerned with __________.

Allison opened her new jigsaw puzzle but soon realized that she had the same puzzle when she was a child. With her past experience to rely upon, Allison will probably use __________ to help her reassemble the puzzle.

Where are the taste receptors located?