Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

According to the text, which of the following is the most likely reason that humans have a general dislike for bitter foods?

Vibration of the bones in the middle ear hit which structure, causing it to vibrate?

Which of these terms is a synonym for umami, one of the five tastes?

Which of the following is a major criticism of research on extrasensory perception?

Which type of deafness involves damage to the mechanical system that regulates sound waves to the cochlea?

Based on the available scientific evidence, does extrasensory perception exist? Give a discussion of the information presented that addresses this topic. Include a critical discussion of people's belief in ESP.

Conduction hearing loss is caused by damage to the ________.

What happens to phantom limb pain when an amputee undergoes mirror visual therapy?

Children who group individuals together who live in the same neighborhood would be using the Gestalt principle of ________.

Your friend Max is working on a jigsaw puzzle and does not recognize the picture in the puzzle until the last piece of the puzzle is in its place. This is an example of ________.

Briefly describe and explain the processes and function of olfaction and gustation.

Explain how transduction, coding, and sensory reduction turn raw sensory data into signals the brain can understand.

Why do so many people believe in extrasensory perception (ESP), despite evidence to the contrary?

The fact that we can detect a candle flame at 30 miles away on a clear dark night demonstrates which attribute of vision?

When Marlisa sits in her bed at night, she can barely make out the light that is coming under her door from her parents' room down the hall. When she looks away from the door, however, that line of light appears to get brighter. The visual receptors in her eyes that are most active in such a low-light environment are called ________.

Light enters the eye through which structure, that helps protect the eye and focus the incoming light?

Which is an example of a monocular cue for depth perception?

According to your text, humans possess how many types of olfactory receptors?

You get a phone call around lunchtime and, expecting the caller to be your husband, you answer "Hi, honey"-but instead it is your boss calling. The strange thing is that even though it wasn't your husband, for a brief moment you thought it was because you expected it to be! This is an example of ________.

Which of the following help(s) athletes play through painful injuries?