Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Based on your text's discussion of cultural influences on taste,which of the following statements is most accurate?

A gray square is placed first on a white sheet of paper and then on a black sheet of paper.The square will be _____ on the black as on the white background.

Yuming becomes nauseous while driving down a curvy mountain road.Her uncomfortable feeling is due to:

Which of the following statements best describes the path of optic nerve impulses in the brain?

Jodi is looking out the window of a train.She first looks at the people standing by the track watching the train go by.Her gaze then shifts to the houses at a distance from the tracks.As a result of _____,the people seem to move by _____ than the houses.

The first psychologists to emphasize the organizing processes underlying perception were the _____ psychologists.

Of the types of haptic receptors described in your text,those that respond to _____ are found throughout the body,not just in the skin.

Red,green,and blue are the _____ primary colors; when combined,they make _____.

We cannot see a shade of bluish yellow because:

For which of the following pairs would it be easiest to discern a difference in weight?

If you close one eye,you will still be able to use _____ as a depth cue,but you will not be able to use _____ as a depth cue.

Sameer is mixing paint.He starts with a very deep green paint and then gradually adds white paint.Sameer is _____ of the green paint.

Melody is looking up a phone number in a phone book with tiny print.She will most likely be able to read the number if she looks at the phone book with her _____ because it has the largest number of _____.

Subjects participating in an MRI study are shown pictures of several kinds of faces.To which of these types of faces will the fusiform gyrus show the greatest activation?

The primary auditory cortex is located in which brain lobe?

Ouch! A paper cut! The sharp sting travels along _____ pain fibers,which are _____.

Red,yellow,and blue are the _____ primary colors; when they are combined they make _____.

According to this information processing model,the recognition of patterns occurs because the data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the brain.

This principle states that rather than perceiving "a car" as a group of distinct entities,such as "metal,tires,glass,door handles,hubcaps,and fenders," we perceive the car as a whole unit.

Kwamie has broken his wrist.His friend,Sam,has taken him to the ER.While they are waiting,Sam starts an argument with Kwamie about the presidential election.While they are arguing,Kwamie is feeling very little pain.This result has most likely occurred because: