Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

_____ is the name of the colored part of the eye that consists of muscles that control the size of the pupil.

The taste that animals are hard-wired to avoid and improves chances of survival by avoiding toxicity is _____.

Describe how both the trichromatic and opponent-process theories are needed to explain how humans perceive color.

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the sense of taste?

Pretend 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 exists in this classroom.

The reason you are seeing this test, rather than smelling it, tasting it, or hearing it, is because your visual receptors are being stimulated and the information is being sent along the optic nerve to the occipital lobe in your brain. This process is called _____.

Jose twists his ankle quite badly in the last ten minutes of his school's championship soccer game. He continues to play and does not notice the pain in his ankle. This is probably because of an increase in his _____ levels.

When we organize patterns in order to perceive an entire stimulus, rather than just its parts, we are using _____ principle of perception.

Audition is _____.

The three key functions of sensation are, respectively, _____.

Charlie has been in his relationship for a year; recently he met someone new and he is contemplating breaking up and dating this new woman instead-he says the most wonderful things to him... Explain the situation using the principles of habituation and selective attention.

The theory of color vision that says color perception results from mixing three distinct color systems is called the _____.

Your balance, or the ability to know your body orientation and position with respect to gravity and three-dimensional space, is provided by the _____ sense.

The skin senses include _____.

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

Carlotta is an Olympic diver. This suggests that she trained her _____ to recognize how various successful postures and movements should feel during her dives.

If you can perceive depth or distance with only one eye, this means you are _____.

The Gestalt principle of contiguity has to do with _______.

Diagram the ear, including the major structures involved in audition and their respective functions.

Converting sensory inputs into different sensations is the process known as _________.