Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

You fall very hard and sprain your ankle. Explain how the gate-control theory is related to pain, and how you might use this theory to minimize the amount of pain you are feeling.

________ refers to a form of memory activation that occurs when exposure, even unconscious exposure, to one stimulus influences a response to another stimulus.

"Impossible figures" are stimuli that appear to make sense but cannot exist in actual, real space. These figures ________.

What is psychophysics? Differentiate between absolute and difference thresholds and give an example of each.

What is the most likely reason that Jessica, who lives in the United States, thinks raw fish and chicken feet are "disgusting," but Akiko, a girl in Japan, eats these as a normal part of her diet?

Someone who can perceive only two colors would be classified as a ________.

Light waves are a form of ________.

Which of these have been described as providing the mind's window to the outside world?

You are at a party talking to a group of friends, and your attention is suddenly drawn to another group's conversation as your name is mentioned. This is an example of ________.

Entering a movie theater from outside on a bright sunny day will cause temporary blindness due to ________.

Normal conversation is usually how many decibels?

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding color confusion?

When we perceive the color of an object as being relatively constant even though the wavelength of light reaching the eye retina may vary due to lighting conditions, we are experiencing ________.

Bleaching of the pigment in rods is an important factor in temporary blindness associated with ________.

What has research found to be the human absolute threshold for taste?

When our perceptions don't agree with our sensations, a(n) ________.

When Bernie sees an advertisement for a headache pill that has been found to work "90 percent of the time," he is tempted to buy the medicine. If, however, that same commercial said instead that the same medicine " fails to work in only about 10 percent of cases," he might be less excited to try the product. This demonstrates the influence of which of these on perception?

Which term refers to naturally occurring body scents that affect, in particular, the sexual behaviors of others?

A binocular cue is one that requires ________.

The process in which neural impulses travel by different routes to different parts of the brain allows us to detect physical stimuli as distinct sensations. This is called ________.