Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Older people who are partially blind but not mentally disturbed may "see" people, animals, building, plants, and other objects appear and disappear in front of their eyes. This rare condition is known as

The idea that there are specific receptors for different odors is based on observations of people who suffer from

The somesthetic senses include

Regarding eyewitness testimony, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following illusions involves a horizontal line with arrowheads at each end that appears to be shorter than a horizontal line with open V's at each end of the line?

When the transfer of vibrations from the outer ear to the inner ear weakens, a person has which type of hearing loss?

Dr. Agarwal presents a blindfolded subject with a sweet liquid and then adds a drop of sweetener to the liquid and has the subject taste it. This process continues until the subject tells the researcher that the liquid tastes "sweeter." Regarding the sense of taste, Dr. Agarwal is seeking the __________ threshold.

Which of the following contribute(s)to our feeling of motion sickness?

A linebacker in football may be able to tell if the next play will be a run or a pass by watching one or two key players, rather than the entire opposing team. This illustrates

Recent experiments on eyewitness testimony have shown that the relationship between a person's confidence in his or her testimony and its accuracy

Five-year-old Jay drew a picture of an Easter bunny hiding eggs. He drew a small bunny at the top of the page as if the bunny is hopping away from the large multicolored egg at the bottom of the page. Jay has used which two pictorial cues?

When you put a picture puzzle together that you have seen many times, you will be mainly using __________ processing.

Waves of compression and rarefaction of air molecules provide the stimulus for the psychological experience of

Weightlessness and space flight tend to cause severe motion sickness because these situations affect the __________ system.

The brain separates images into "either-or" messages of red-green, blue-yellow, or black-white according to which theory of color vision?

Muscles attached to which of part of the eye alter its shape and change the eye's focal point?

The fact that roses have a distinctive and similar fragrance regardless of where they are found is explained by the fact that

Fourteen-year-old Yasmin can see distance objects very clearly, but the words in the textbook she is reading appear blurry. She most likely has which visual problem?

If you cross your eyes, hold your head very still, and stare at a single point across the room, your surroundings will

According to Maslow, people who perceive their world more accurately than others tend to be characterized by immersion in the present and a lack of self-consciousness.