Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with:

When an artist creates the illusion of depth in a painting,she does so by using:

There is a loaf of bread behind a container of milk on the table in front of you.You see the bread as a single loaf rather than two half loaves,one on either side of the milk container.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Someone who needs reading glasses to see at a close distance has problems _____ her lens.Someone who needs glasses to see objects at a distance has problems _____ his lens.

Encharta is sitting outside,looking at her beautiful garden.As the sun goes down,the colors become less bright and finally all become shades of gray.This change happens because the:

Some animals have ears that they can rotate in different directions.These animals have superior perception of:

Object agnosia provides support for the idea that there are two separate streams of analysis of visual information because it shows that:

According to this information processing model,pattern recognition occurs because the data at higher levels of mental processing influence the lower levels in the processing hierarchy.

Damian frequently runs into Carmen while he is walking his dog.He is puzzled because Carmen always greets his dog,but never greets him until he has spoken to her.He becomes even more perplexed when Carmen says,"Oh look,there is Ryan's car," even though Ryan is standing right next to the car.You could enlighten Damian by telling him that Carmen quite likely suffers from:

Temperature,pain,and pressure are components of the _____ sense.

Which of the following taste sensations was most recently discovered?

Dr.Breiland examines the relationship between the physical properties of light,such as its amplitude and wavelength,and humans' perception of color.Which of the following terms most accurately describes Dr.Breiland's field of study?

The optic nerve is composed of axons of:

Colleen and LaVonne are playing darts.Colleen throws her dart into the center of the target,and LaVonne throws his dart into the outer ring.In an analogy to vision,Colleen would have been likely to hit a _____,and LaVonne would have been likely to hit a _____.

Daniel is standing on the outside platform of the train station.He is looking down the tracks hoping to see his train.As the tracks get farther from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to _____,providing the depth cue of _____.

Haptic experiences are the result of:

The axons from _____ cells form the _____,which exits the eye at the back of the retina.

Callie is pregnant.She has never liked vegetables and rarely eats them.However,she does not want her baby to have the same bad eating habits.If Callie wants her baby to grow up to enjoy the taste of vegetables,the most effective thing she can do is:

_____ is the body's detection of external or internal sensory stimuli,whereas _____ is its further processing,organizing,and interpreting of those stimuli.

When the moon is high in the sky it will appear _____ when it is close to the horizon.