Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Prosopagnosia refers to a deficit in:

In classical psychophysics,the concept of an absolute threshold rests on the assumption that a subject's response is:

Consider the two following patterns: >>>>><<<<< ; +++++*****.The ten characters in the first pattern are perceived as a single figure,whereas the ten characters in the second pattern are perceived as two groups of five characters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

The auditory neurons extending from the _____ reach out with their axons to the primary auditory cortex (A1)in the _____.

Yellow is considered one of the primary colors,but there is no cone specialized to respond to yellow light.When we see yellow,it is because the light is stimulating the:

Electronic signs create an illusion of movement by illuminating small adjacent lights in rapid succession.This phenomenon is an example of:

As you watch the rectangle of a paper flag being turned around its pole,you always see the shape of the flag as being rectangular.Yet the image of the flag changes shape at the retina as it rotates.Why do you not see the shape as changing?

Sensory qualities are coded by only a few different types of receptors,each of which responds to a broad range of stimuli.This is an example of a phenomenon called:

In visual processing,ventral is to dorsal as:

After transduction,most of the sensory neural information passes through which structure?

Ultimately,changes in air pressure underlie the sense of:

In this pictorial depth cue,objects below the horizon that appear higher in the visual field are perceived as being farther away,and objects above the horizon that appear lower in the visual field are perceived as being farther away.

In a single person,gustation involves _____ taste buds,all located on the _____.

Kendra loves spicy curry,but her husband prefers a milder curry.Starting with a bland curry,Kendra increases the spiciness every time she cooks.One day her husband complains that the curry is too spicy.After that,Kendra always makes the curry as spicy as the last time before her husband complained.Kendra is assessing her husband's:

How do the light waves reflected by a blue object differ from those reflected by a red object?

Li-Ting is painting a picture.She paints a vase of flowers and then,right next to it,half of a book.When Bijal looks at the painting,she sees the book as being _____ because of _____.

If the ventral stream of your visual cortex was not working temporarily,you would be unable to understand _____ an object is; but if your dorsal stream was still functioning,you could understand _____ an object is.

Which subfield of psychology studies the relationship between physical stimuli and the psychological experiences they produce?

A region of this area in the right hemisphere of the brain appears to be specialized for perceiving faces.

Your friend suddenly looks shocked and says,"What is that over there?" Your brain would need to use your _____to locate the object,and your _____ to decide what it is.