Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

According to psychologist Richard Nisbett and his colleagues, people from different cultures do perceive the world differently. Describe the different ways in which European Americans and Asians perceive the world differently and include the results of research studies conducted on this subject.

The cochlea is made up of the

You look through an old photographic slide-viewer toy, which creates the impression of seeing a three-dimensional scene by one photograph of the scene being displayed to one eye and a slightly different view of this scene being presented to the other eye. When these two images are fused into one overall image, which of the following occurs?

Describe the "seat-of-the-pants phenomenon," "the cocktail party effect," and inattentional blindness, and explain how they are all related to the "bottleneck" of selective attention.

Regarding the retina, which of the following statements is FALSE?

In tests of facial recognition, people

The sensory organs for balance are the

The visual receptors for color and bright light are the rods, while the cones are the visual receptors for dim light and produce only black and white sensations.

If your eyeball is too long, you will have a condition called hyperopia.

Within the organ of Corti, there are "bristles" atop each hair cell that brush against the tectorial membrane and trigger nerve impulses that flow to the brain. These "bristles" are called

Figure and ground can be switched in

The key to dishabituation is

Dark adaptation can be completely wiped out by

Black and white vision with the greatest sensitivity under lower levels of illumination describes the function of the

We are able to sense gravity, acceleration, and movement through space when the tug of gravity or rapid head movement causes the soft, gelatin-like mass within which of the following structures to shift and stimulate the hair-like receptor cells?

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

Which receptor cells produce color sensations and fine details, work best in bright light, and lie mainly at the center of the retina?

The basic elements of a stimulus, such as lines, shapes, edges, or colors, are referred to as __________ features.

Although you smelled the distinct odors of a pot of cabbage cooking on the stove when you first entered the kitchen, you now no longer smell these odors after being in the kitchen for thirty minutes due to the process of sensory gating.

A visual defect known as astigmatism is the result of