Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

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.

The visual cliff is an apparatus designed to study _____ in young children and animals.

Reading is a process of:

Coming home at night, Edward sees a dark car parked in his neighbor's driveway and knows it is red. However, he is uncertain about the color of the dark car parked in the street. Color constancy explains the difference in Edward's perception of color based on _____.

Feature detectors are specialized cells in the brain that _____.

_____ refers to a binocular cue that comes from the separation of the eyes, which causes different images to fall on each retina.

George Stratton's experiment using special goggles that distort the world is considered a classic today because it demonstrated _____.

The only current treatment for nerve deafness is:

A phenomenon in which the perceived intensity of a repeated stimulus decreases over time is called _____.

The noise level at the rock concert you went to last night registered 120 decibels. This level of sound _____.

Your companion on a train ride through Illinois notices that telephone poles near the tracks are passing by very quickly, while telephone poles in the distance are passing by much more slowly. This is an example of _____.

"Picky" eating is related to _____.

Children who sing the alphabet song and mistake the letters L, M, N, O, P for the word "elamenopee" are displaying what principle of perceptual form organization?

Describe the importance of the three body senses in relationship to achieving excellent performance in a gymnastics competition.

The tendency for the environment to be perceived as remaining the same even with changes in sensory input is called _____.

When the brain is sorting out and attending only to the most important messages from the senses, it is engaged in the process of _____.

The fluid-filled structure that contains receptors for hearing is the _____.

Cone receptor cells in the retina _____.

A whistling or ringing sensation in the ears is called ______.

The theory of color vision that is based on three systems of color opposites is called the _____ theory.