Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Juan and Joseph are opera singers.Juan is a baritone.Joseph is a tenor: his voice is higher-pitched.With respect to their physical properties,the sound waves corresponding to Juan's voice are lower in _____ than those corresponding to Joseph's voice; that is,they are lower in _____.

The attitude of a large segment of the deaf community to cochlear implants is that children should:

Sharita looks at her professor and then shifts her gaze to the screen behind her professor.As she does this,her lens is becoming _____ through the process of _____.

The _____ does most of the focusing of the light onto the retina,and the _____ allows for more accuracy of focusing.

Our perception of _____ is unusual in that it does not involve the thalamus.

The primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe?

During baseball practice,the third-base coach yells to the pitcher to try a fastball.The pitcher knows that it is the third-base coach,not the first-base coach,who is talking to him because the sound of the coach's voice reaches his left ear _____ than his right ear and is _____ in his left ear than his right ear.

The major problem to be explained in depth perception is that:

During transduction,most sensory information is transmitted first to the _____ before it is sent to the _____,where it is interpreted as sight,sound,smell,touch,or taste.

Ayelet is trying to draw a picture of two people on opposite sides of a river.No matter how carefully she tries to draw the two people the same size,the person who is supposed to be on the distant side seems to be much taller than the person who is supposed to be on the closer side.You could explain that the depth cue of _____ means that she will need to draw _____ of the person who is to be seen as farther away.

Someone who wears a hearing aid is most likely to have a problem with his _____.Someone who has a cochlear implant is most likely to have a problem with her _____.

As Pippa threads a needle,her eyes rotate inward.She knows the needle is close enough to perform the task by virtue of the depth cue termed:

Annabeth is almost an hour late to meet Keir for dinner.At the entrance to the restaurant,she scans the room to see where he is sitting.Her _____ enables her to recognize Keir,and her _____ registers his mood and makes her cautious in approaching him.

Taj wants to create a robot that has sensation but not perception.The robot should:

_____ has the most direct route to the brain because it is the only sense that bypasses the _____.

This motion cue for depth perception specifies that near objects seem to pass more quickly than objects that are farther away.

Cameron has an inner ear infection.In addition to the pain in his ear,Cameron is most likely to:

From an adaptive standpoint,the disproportionate area of the cortex devoted to vision suggests that our visual system _____ than our other senses.

Jasmine wants to get Uchenna's attention in the library.She whispers to avoid disturbing other students.However,she speaks so softly that Uchenna cannot hear her and keeps reading.Jasmine's voice is:

Imagine you are participating in a friend's psychology experiment.She asks you to close your eyes and hold out your finger.She tells you that she will prick your finger with a needle in the same place several times and then will start to prick other places.Your task is to tell her when you first feel the pin prick in a different place.She then repeats the same process,but starts on your back.You might predict that the distance at which you could first detect a pin prick in a new location would be: