Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

What monocular depth cue can best explain why railroad tracks appear to come together in the distance?

The smallest amount of a particular stimulus required to produce any sensation at all in the person to whom the stimulus is presented is the __________ threshold.

How many somesthetic sense systems are there?

Studies show that taste preference can typically begin __________.

The fovea is made up of __________.

What sensations are detected by the skin?

The Gestalt principle of proximity is the tendency to __________.

What color would you report seeing if a researcher projected the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum onto a screen?

In daylight, the shortest wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum will look red.

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision and fine acuity are __________.

The cochlea and basilar membrane are part of the __________.

The process by which outside stimuli, in their various forms of energy, are converted into neural signals is called __________.

Olfactory receptors project directly to the __________ and are unique in that signals do not first connect to the thalamus.

Suppose your town is located in a valley. Obviously, you'll realize that the size of your town doesn't change regardless of whether you look at it up close or from a hilltop. This is primarily due to __________.

What is the approximate life expectancy of individual taste receptor cells?

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are the __________.

When opening a door, the actual image on your retina changes drastically, but you still perceive the door as a rectangle. This is an example of __________ constancy.

The tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping is known as __________.

Which of the following properties of sound is the most similar to the brightness of light?

__________ is the process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves.