Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

The artist Vincent van Gogh is known for cutting off his outer ear. What is the precise name of the part he cut off?

When you see two lanes of the highway coming together at the horizon and make a judgment about how far away the horizon is, you are using _____.

Lizzie is yelling more and more loudly at her younger brother. This means that the _____ of the sound waves is(are) getting _____.

The theory that explains how we hear higher-pitched sounds is the:

The faintest sound you can detect is one decibel, and normal conversation measures _____ decibels.

_____ is the perceptual organization principle that says people tend to perceive a complete unit even if it contains gaps.

You are reading the newspaper in the student lounge when your best friend comes up behind you, casting a shadow over the paper. The principle of brightness constancy says that you will _____.

Your friend is thinking of using several subliminal tapes to improve his memory and self-esteem. He asks you what psychologists think about these tapes. What would be the MOST correct response you could make?

How many hues does your author state humans can discriminate?

A false impression of the environment is called _____.

Vision and hearing are a result of our perception of __________________.

The receptor cells for the nose are located in the _____.

The vestibular sacs contain hair cells that are sensitive to _____.

When the lens of the eye becomes less flexible around middle age, people are diagnosed with ____.

Blue-eyed Tracy came out of the movie theater after a matinee. What kept Tracy from being blinded by too much sudden sunlight?

Which visual receptors adapt faster when confronted with a sudden change in light intensity?

Rods are most sensitive _____, and less sensitive _____.

Feature detection _____.

Car alarms that change from a siren to a honking horn and back again are attempting to prevent _____.

Eighteen-month-old Danielle thinks that her daddy is getting smaller and smaller as he walks away from her. This child has not yet developed the principle of _____.