Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Your friend claims to have ESP (extrasensory perception). Based on research from your text, if you were to think of an image and ask your friend to guess that image, what would you expect his success rate to be?

Place theory states that

The fan on your air filtering unit runs very quietly. From the next room, you cannot hear the sound. Checking whether it is running or not, you move toward it until you can hear it. The point at which the sound is loudest and clearest to you is the absolute threshold.

The crossover point where the right visual field information goes to the left hemisphere is called the

Figure is to ground as ________ is to ________.

Explain the main difference between an absolute threshold and a difference threshold.

If you were unable to explain to your friends what causes color afterimages by using the trichromatic color theory of vision, you could tell them about opponent-process theory, which should help to explain this phenomenon.

Give examples of each of the five gestalt principles that are found in everyday life.

As young children learn to read, they often have difficulty comprehending what the story is saying because they are working so hard to decode what the words are. This reflects an over-reliance on which type of processing?

Bill works in an office where a very noisy air conditioner is always on. Whenever people visit Bill's office, they comment on the noise and ask how Bill can work with such a distraction. Bill replies that he does not even notice the noise. How would you explain Bill's response using the framework of sensory adaptation?

When you are able to taste a quarter teaspoon of salt dissolved in a glass of water five times out of ten, you have attained your ________ threshold.

________ processing involves starting with a sense of what is happening and then applying that framework to information in the world.

You are outside enjoying a beautiful day. The sky is bright blue. When the sun sets, the sky turns a gorgeous salmon pink. After the sun has set, the sky pales to pink, then lavender; as it gets dark, the sky becomes a deeper purple, then midnight blue, and finally it looks black. The color changes you perceive in the sky are due to the ________ of light that it reflects.

Gestalt psychologists emphasize that

Toward the center of the retina, there is an area that contains only cones. This area is called the

The different pitches of the beeps you hear on a touch-tone telephone are due to differences in the ________ of the beeps.

The clear membrane just in front of the eye is the

Disparity plays a role in

Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the

The unit of measure for the amplitude of sound is