Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Which of the following is a visual illusion?

Imagine you are a tutor in psychology. Define each of the Gestalt principles of organization to your pupil, and provide an example of each one that is present in this classroom.

What range of light is visible to humans?

When Delilah sees a group of people together in the hotel lobby all wearing similar t-shirts, she naturally assumes that they are all related. The visual cue that helps her categorize these people into a related group demonstrates the gestalt principle of ________.

"Turning down the volume" on repetitive information helps the sensory receptors cope with an overwhelming amount of sensory stimuli and allows time to pay attention to change, a phenomenon called ________.

Experiments on subliminal perception commonly use an instrument to flash images too quickly for conscious recognition but slowly enough to be registered by the brain. This instrument is called a(n) ________.

Which monocular cue leads us to perceive the more detailed flowers in a painting as being closer than the flowers with less detail?

A monocular cue that relies on the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye and sends neural impulses to the brain is called ________.

Light and sound both move in ________.

The vestibular sense is controlled by what part of the body?

Where are skin receptors least concentrated on the body?

When you look feel something soft on your skin you are engaging in the process of ________; when you interpret the information and realize it is a feather, you are engaging in the process of ________.

Explain what is meant by the following statement: "The two primary theories of color vision - the trichromatic theory and the opponent-process theory - are not competing models of how we see color. In fact, these two models are complementary explanations of color perception." Why is this statement accurate?

The sense of gustation is important from an evolutionary standpoint because ________.

High-amplitude light waves produce ________ colors, whereas high-amplitude sound waves produce ________ sounds.

Prosopagnosia is a condition that can involve the inability to recognize ________.

Most people can perceive three different colors and would be classified as ________.

Yuor ablity to raed thsi sntenece desipte its mnay mssipllengis is deu to ________.

For each different higher-pitched sound we hear, hair cells bend the most at different locations on the basilar membrane in the cochlea. This statement describes the ________.

Most olfactory information is processed in which structure before being sent to other parts of the brain?