Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

When you doubt your perceptions of another person's feelings, you should

Your best friend is trying to sneak up on you, but you note some movement coming up behind you on your left side. You spin around and scare her instead. Your ability to detect this movement is due to the large number of rods that lie 20 degrees from the center of the retina and demonstrates your excellent __________ vision.

Which of the following is considered one of the skin senses?

In one study on perceptual expectancies, participants were given a taste of a "$90 wine" and a "$10 wine," and they reported that the more expensive one tasted better, even though the same wine was served both times.

You are able to perceive your own body because your brain creates an internal model of the body, which is referred to as the __________.

Deodorant, soaps, toothpaste, and countless other products are pushed in ads that play on our desires to be attractive, to have "sex appeal," or to avoid embarrassment, which illustrates how

Research conducted by Chua, Boland, and Nisbett found that American participants tended to focus on the figure within a scene, while the Chinese participants focused on the background. They concluded that Americans tend to have a

Some research indicates that, compared to witnesses of crimes, victims of crimes are

In the young woman\old woman illustration in your textbook, the effect of seeing either the picture of the "old woman" or the picture of the "young woman" first will lead a person to respond in a particular way to the third picture in which both an "old" and a "young" woman can be seen. Seeing the first picture of either the "old" or the "young" woman created which of the following?

The depth cue that occurs when one object partially blocks another object is known as

If you have 20\20 visual acuity, then you have

Name the five basic taste sensations, tell how sensitive humans are to each taste and how this difference in sensitivity may have prevented poisonings, and explain why there are so many different flavors if only four (or five)tastes exist.

Areas outside the fovea that receive light and are made up mainly of rods create for us a large region of __________ vision.

According to Maslow, people who perceive their world more accurately than others tend to be characterized by

The Müller-Lyer illusion is best explained by

Ambiguous stimuli allow us to hold more than one

Maria tries to listen to others with full concentration, making eye contact and watching their facial expressions. She is enhancing her perceptual accuracy by

The part of the eye where the optic nerve leaves the eye is called the

The text suggests that enhanced perceptual accuracy is LESS likely if we

Grandma told the grandkids that their "PaPa" was right about the "little hammer and other things" being in their heads. She then added that their inner ears look like snails. This fluid-filled structure that looks like a snail is the