Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Perceptual abilities that we think of as psychic that go beyond the known senses is called ________.

The iris is the muscular part of the eye that controls the opening of the ________.

After a month of having stuck a post-it note by your door to remind you of an appointment, you forgot the appointment. This is an example of ________.

Describe the difference between sensation and perception, using fireworks on the Fourth of July as an example. Include the sensory stimuli involved, as well as bottom-up and top-down processing.

Research suggests that humans can distinguish among ________.

Taste buds are located within which of the following structures, on the surface of the tongue?

According to your text, humans can detect more than how many types of distinct smells?

Hyperopia (or farsightedness) results from images focused ________.

Because Lena has vision in only one eye, she can no longer use which of these as a cue for perceiving the distance from her car in the parking lot to the entrance of the mall?

Presbyopia is caused by ________.

Whether we detect a sound as being soft or loud depends on its ________.

As he is running his first 10k (ten kilometer) race, Apollo finds that he is starting to hurt and wear out at the third mile. He pushes through, and suddenly experiences a brief period where the pain goes away and he can run faster than he had been running. This "runners high" is facilitated by the release of ________.

If three people standing next to each other witnessed a robbery and each person described the thief differently, then these different interpretations of the sensory input would most likely illustrate differences in ________.

Some city parks in Philadelphia have installed sonic devices designed to prevent children and teens loitering, while older adults cannot even hear it. This is because ________.

Even though you have not placed every piece of a jigsaw puzzle in its correct location, you recognize the puzzle's overall scene based on the portion already completed. This is an example of ________.

In the gate control theory of pain, ________ open(s) the gate and ________ close(s) the gate.

A more recently discovered taste sensation, called ________, actually means "delicious" or "savory" in Japanese.

Which area of the body has the highest concentration of skin receptors?

Which theory of pitch perception "solves" the problem of frequency theory's inability to account for high pitched sound perception?

The color aftereffects phenomenon predicts that, after staring at a bright red rectangle for a period of time, you will see a ________.