Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

The spread of electromagnetic energies to which the eyes respond is called the __________.

Work in sensory impressions is beginning to make it possible to artificially restore sight, hearing, or other 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.

Seeing "out of the corner of your eye" is important in sports activities and driving. This is known as

Advertisers would love it if they heard several people humming their products' jingles because it means that television viewers are falling prey to the attention-getting strategy called __________.

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.

A person with schizophrenia continually "hears" a voice shouting, "Buckets of blood!" when there is no one around and no radio or television is turned on. This person is experiencing a(n)

Red-green color blind individuals do not have a severe difficulty with traffic lights because

The small cup-shaped area in the middle of the retina that contains only cones is the

Although the senses reduce a mixture of sights, sounds, odors, tastes, and touch sensations to more manageable amounts, they are still too much for the brain to handle. That's why the brain further filters sensory information through

Pain messages are carried by small nerve fibers in the warning system and by large nerve fibers in the reminding system.

Gina finds a plain brown box in which there are many puzzle pieces. She begins putting these pieces together without knowing what this puzzle will "become." She is using __________ processing.

Creative people habituate

Many types of stimuli cannot be sensed directly by humans because we lack sensory receptors to transduce the energy of these types of stimuli.

Tony feels like he is wearing blinders because he has suffered a loss of peripheral vision known as myopia.

Your child drew a picture of his school playground on a large sheet of white paper. At the top of this page, he or she drew the school building, while the playground equipment, including seesaws and swings, were drawn toward the bottom of the picture. There is a tree near the entrance to the school. The trunk of this tree is blocking a portion of the windows by the main doorway to the school. There is a road beginning at the bottom of the page whose parallel lines grow closer together as the road passes the school. The children that your child drew near the bottom of the page appear larger than the children playing nearer the school. These "larger" children also are drawn with more detail, while the faces of the children playing closer to the school are blurry. Describe the pictorial cues that this "artist" used to achieve depth.

Carmen has blurred vision because her eyeball is too long. Carmen has the condition called

The primary function of each of your senses is to act as a device that converts one kind of energy into another, which is referred to as a biological __________.

The illustration depicts the use of which pictorial depth cue?

If you are led to perceive in a certain way due to past experience, motives, context, or suggestion, then you are experiencing which of the following?