Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

What are rods and cones, and what are their functions in the eye?

Which depth cue accounts for why parallel lines appear to grow closer together the farther away they are?

________ cues are ones that depend on the combination of the images in the left and right eyes.

When something warm touches your skin, you feel warmth. When something cold touches your skin, you feel coldness. If things both warm and cold touch your skin, stimulating adjacent thermoreceptors for warmth and cold, you will feel

To read this question, you must look at it. After the light passes into your eyes, the incoming light waves are recorded by receptor cells located in the

The ________ sense gives you information about balance and movement.

The main function of rods and cones is to

You are studying in your dorm room. You gently request that your neighbor turn the volume of his television down until you cannot hear it. You are asking your neighbor to find your

You try to note the incredibly fine details of a computer microchip through a magnifying glass. On which area of the retina are you focusing this image?

Subliminally presented stimuli

You attend a music concert. When you hear the pitch of a voice or instrument, this is your perception of frequency, and when you hear the loudness of the music, this is your perception of its amplitude.

When light comes into your eye, it first passes through the lens of your eye.

You cannot feel the waistband of your underwear, even though you know it is there. This is the result of

The smallest intensity of a stimulus that you can detect 50 percent of the time is the ________ threshold.

The minimal change in stimulation that is required to detect a difference between two stimuli is a "just noticeable difference."

Herman has the most common form of color blindness. The colors that he will have trouble distinguishing are

The ________ theory of perception proposes that detection of stimuli depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, physical intensity of the stimulus, fatigue of the observer, and expectancy.

As Rena gets out of the shower, she thinks, but is not certain that she hears a car outside. What perceptual process is she experiencing?

Your mother's and sister's voices have the same pitch and loudness, but you can tell them apart on the telephone. This is due to the perceptual quality or ________ of their voices.

The tendency to mentally complete forms and figures that are actually incomplete is known as