Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Amadi is listening to John play the guitar.When John plays a note,the vibrations of the air are picked up by auditory receptors in his ear and sent to his brain.In Amadi's brain,the information from the receptors is analyzed to produce the experience of a musical note.The pickup of information by receptors in the ear is _____; the processing to produce the experience of a musical note is _____.

Students participating in a psychology experiment are asked to identify the emotions expressed by a number of different kinds of faces.On which type of face would they recognize the emotion most quickly?

When driving on the freeway,you notice that the bushes at the side of the road appear to be passing very quickly.In the distance you can see a very tall tree,and you notice that it takes half an hour to drive past it.What depth cue is causing this speed discrepancy?

Due to the partial crossing of visual information at the _____,the _____ visual field(s)projects to the right hemisphere.

Dogs can hear higher-frequency sounds than people can.This fact suggests that there is an anatomical difference in the:

Hamdi wakes up in the middle of the night and tries to see the clock in the dim light.The numbers are very faint.He will more likely be able to read the time if he looks at the clock with his _____ because it has the largest number of _____.

Meg is rehearsing the solo for her dance performance.In order to perform her solo well,Meg has to be aware of the position of her arms and legs in space.To do this,Meg relies on her _____ sense.

When a ballerina pirouettes,images of the room move rapidly across her retina.She does not perceive the room as spinning wildly around her while she dances because:

Cordelia is massaging her shoulders to rid herself of a tension headache.According to gate control theory,the massage should:

In which of the following cases will the most accurate facial recognition occur?

The point at which the optic nerves meet and then split is termed the optic:

Sensitive areas,such as the face,have larger areas of the primary somatosensory cortex devoted to them.One reason that this might be the case is that greater sensitivity results from:

While you are on a boat,the captain exclaims,"Look,there's a dolphin!" What part of your processing stream allows you to locate the dolphin?

Our perception of the world is most like a:

Which of the following sequences accurately reflects the order in which light stimulates cells early in the visual processing of an image?

Days after breaking his nose in a football game,Ben still perceives a dull pain in his nose.The throbbing ache travels along _____ pain fibers,which are _____.

The optic nerve projects from the retina through a neural pathway that progresses to the _____,which is located in the _____ lobe.

Approximately what proportion of the cerebral cortex has been estimated to be involved in vision in some way?

According to signal detection theory,a person's perception is:

Pain medications work by: