Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Failure to perceive a stimulus that is in plain view but not the focus of attention is known as

Hue refers to the

A general conclusion that one might draw from the relationship between San bushmen's experiences and their perception of the Müller-Lyer illusion is that

Convergence and retinal disparity are similar in that both are monocular cues.

Individuals who have Charles Bonnet syndrome are mentally disturbed and lack the ability to engage in reality testing.

At the political convention, the people are crowded together on the convention floor. Although the large group is a mixture of different gender, ages, and races with many different outfits, you easily group these people together based on the sign being held up in the middle of each group that bears their state's name. Your grouping was the result of which perceptual principle?

The ability to selectively attend to incoming sensory information is believed to result from

You have a craving for ice cream. In the lunch room, you see a large bowl of pistachio ice cream. Excitedly, you run up to the bowl, only to find that it smells like tuna and is, in fact, a large bowl of tuna fish. You have just experienced

When you are in a group of people, surrounded by voices, you can choose to focus on the voice of the person you are facing or even choose to eavesdrop on conversations around the room. This is known as

In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features, Blakemore and Cooper found that the kittens raised in the horizontally-striped rooms

A football player must rely on both his\her somesthetic senses as well as his\her ____  senses to catch a pass.

When you estimate a distance under 50 feet, such as when you play catch or shoot trash can hoops with the first draft of your essay, you are using

You are about to undergo a painful medical procedure.Which of the following would NOT be likely to reduce your pain?

The rhythmic movement of air molecules produces

Most of the focusing is done at the front of the eye by a clear membrane that bends light inward. This membrane is called the

One's perceptual accuracy can be enhanced through the creation of perceptional sets.

Physical properties of an object, such as length, position, motion, curvature, or direction, are consistently misjudged in

Individuals who have Charles Bonnet syndrome

When the two different images, one from each eye, are fused into one overall image, three-dimensional sight occurs, which is referred to as __________ vision.

The primary function of the senses is to act as devices that convert one kind of energy into another, which are referred to as