Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Bryan reads the newspaper to his grandmother because the muscles in her eyes can no longer change the shape of her inflexible lenses.This problem with ____ keeps her from focusing small print on her retina.

Sascha is in a marching band.Because the band members move together identically,the audience perceives waves of motion.Sascha's band director has used the Gestalt principle of ____ to cause the audience to perceive the waves of motion.

Dr.Laboy's research on human hearing shows that if a person listens to a tone of 1,000 cycles per second (hertz),the acoustic nerve produces 1,000 action potentials per second.Dr.Laboy's results support the idea of ____.

As you listen to your brilliant psychology instructor in class,the sound will travel through which of the following paths?

Ophelia has two types of cones: those sensitive to red light and those sensitive to green light.Ophelia has ____.

Visible light is electromagnetic radiation with a light wavelength range of about ____ nanometers

At the Museum of Science and Industry,Joan finds an exhibit with three colored spotlights.By adjusting the intensity of the red,green,and blue lights and overlapping them,Joan is able to create any color she likes.Which theory of color vision does this support?

The Acme Corporation has created a pair of specialty goggles that allow the wearer to change the overall intensity of the wavelengths of light coming through the goggles.This action will alter the wearer's sensation of light by changing its ____.

Oscar is in a fight and he sees the image of a fist that expands so that it fills his retina.He realizes that the fist is coming at him,rather than growing in size,because of ____.

Fabio has been driving for over twelve hours.He is hungry and tired,so he begins looking for a place to spend the night.He reads a sign that he thinks says "Red Roof Inn," but when he pulls into the parking lot,he realizes that the sign reads "Reed Roofing,Inc." Fabio's perception that the sign is for the national hotel chain and not a roofing company is most likely due to ____ processing.

Vision is considered a sense because it ____.

While watching a Food Network marathon,you learn from Rachel Ray that papillae are groups of ____ that play an important role in taste perception.

As electromagnetic radiation enters the eye,it is transformed by the accessory structures of the ____ before transduction occurs.

Molly,a freshman in college,cannot understand how her roommate,a senior,can actually read and sing along with the radio at the same time.Her roommate says that she always studies this way and makes good grades.In this example,the roommate's attention can be divided easily because of ____.

As a vampire runs at Buffy to attack her,Buffy perceives that the vampire is moving closer,not growing larger,even though her retinal image of the vampire is growing larger.This is due to ____.

Wes is helping his brother lay new flooring in his house.Even though there are four stacks of floor tiles next to each other,he perceives the one stack of gray granite separately from the three stacks of black marble because of the grouping principle of ____.

Boris is blindfolded and holding a pile of laundry.Natasha adds some dirty laundry to Boris's pile,then some more dirty laundry,then some more,and so on,just until Boris says,"Now the pile of laundry feels heavier." Boris's judgment is best described by ____ law.

While at the bookstore,you listen in on an author speaking to a crowd of fans about her research and experience working with color in the clothing industry.She talks about the biology behind color,including how our eyes have thousands of receptors that are each sensitive to a different range of light wavelengths.As she continues,you realize she is explaining the ____ theory of color vision.

Stella is walking near the railroad tracks and notices that the tracks recede to a point in the distance.She realizes that as the tracks get closer together,things appear farther away while objects located at spots where the tracks are far apart appear close.Stella has recognized the depth perception cue called ____.

The main question behind the study of depth and motion perception is ____.