Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Diane is experimenting with the lighting she will use at a rock concert.When she lights the stage blue,she is flooding it with _____ wavelengths of light.If she wants to change the stage to look red,she will need to shift the light to include _____ wavelengths.To change from red to green,she will need to move to _____ wavelengths.

Reversible figures occur because:

Supertasters are those who experience especially intense taste sensations.This trait is determined largely by:

Mick is getting a tattoo on his back.The tattoo artist creates tiny points adjacent to each other on the skin to tattoo a line.The information from the needle pricks will be represented in the primary somatosensory cortex:

When Petra jumps into a cold lake,she feels as though she is freezing.After a few minutes,she no longer notices the cold and feels comfortable in the water.This change is an example of:

Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are,she is assessing _____ differences.When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend's Mexican beer,she is assessing a _____ difference.

When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater,her _____ causes her _____ to enlarge.

The size of an object's retinal image is _____ correlated with _____.

Anna is reading her psychology text.The activation of receptors in her retina is called _____; her interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is termed _____.

Scotty makes dinner by looking at his ingredients and then combining them into a meal.Nora makes dinner by deciding on the meal and then selecting the ingredients.Scotty is cooking in a _____ manner,and Nora is cooking in a _____ manner.

Consider the pattern: XXY XXY XXY.People perceive this pattern as consisting of three groups of three letters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Susan is wearing a bright red skirt.She is trying to decide whether she wants to wear a pink top or a brown top with it.If she decides on the pink top,then the top and the skirt will vary in _____.If she decides on the brown top,then the top and the skirt will vary in _____.

Avi broke his ankle skiing.At first,he felt a sharp and intense pain.The next day,the sharp pain was gone,but his ankle throbbed almost all the time.The sharp immediate pain was due to _____; the later throbbing pain was due to _____.

In the Ponzo illusion,cues to size and to distance conflict.The fact that an illusion of size is created suggests that:

Red and green appear to be opposite colors because of the activity of ganglion cells that are:

A(n)_____ is the minimum intensity of sensory stimulation required before the sensation is detected 50 percent of the time.

Each eye sees more of the world on its own side of the visual field.A combination of the views from the two eyes provides humans with an adaptive advantage by creating a broader panorama of the scene.It also creates the depth cue of:

As Devin runs to catch the quarterback's throw,he automatically checks the position of his arms and hands and adjusts them to the path of the ball.Which sense allows him to position his hands and arms so well?

When Maggie comes home,she is surprised to see that her roommate has painted their living room red.The room looks so dazzlingly red because the paint has absorbed the _____ wavelengths of light and is reflecting the _____ wavelengths to Maggie's eyes.

An odor is most likely encoded by a(n):