Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Feature detection cannot explain how you can ____.

When you look at a picture,information about the right visual field is sent to the left hemisphere of the brain and information about the left visual field is sent to the right hemisphere of the brain.This crossover occurs in the ____.

While randomly searching through Wikipedia,you read an article on the cutaneous senses.You now understand that the cutaneous senses consist of all of the following except____.

Russel is having difficulty creating a sense of depth to his painting.His instructor,Olivier,suggests that he use a little blue in his color mixture for the deep background features.This will create the depth cue of ____.

Haley is very upset about her hearing loss,but she is thrilled when the doctor tells her that they can treat her deafness by breaking apart the bones in her middle ear.Haley is experiencing ____ deafness.

Artists are able to create rich 3D environments on a 2D canvas by utilizing various techniques that essentially trick our ____.

Which statement about the taste buds is correct?

When Jason is watching the Thanksgiving Parade,he perceives more distant objects as farther away because the lenses in his eyes change shape to focus on those objects.This cue for depth perception is called ____.

Culture and social class can affect perception through their influence on ____.

In his art class,Justin's teacher is lecturing on depth perception cues in two-dimensional art.The instructor explains that people tend to perceive objects at the top of an image as being ____.

After placing a sheet of white paper in a dimly lit corner of the room,it appears to be darker.You know when you place it back in the light,it will maintain its original appearance due to the perceptual principle of ____.

It would be impossible for most students to listen to a physics lecture,read a literature book,and count backward from 500 to 1 simultaneously.This is primarily because attentional resources are ____.

While looking at his professor,Brian finds himself thinking about his date on Friday,rather than about what his professor is saying.Brian's attention on his date is an example of ____.

Claire works all night on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle but misplaces 10 of the puzzle's pieces.She shows the puzzle to her friend Karen.Even though the puzzle is missing ten pieces,Karen can still perceive a complete picture by using the perceptual process of

You are walking across campus and you notice an odor that is coming from livestock in the area.Due to neural pathways,the smell is most likely to evoke a(n)____.

When he watches the movie Halloween,Julio gets creeped out by the music.When you laugh at him,he says,"Those repetitive high notes on the piano scare me out of my mind! Even if I can barely hear the music,it still freaks me out." Julio is referring to the ____ of the music.

Karlie is always told that she has beautiful eyes.To which part of her eye are people most likely to be referring when they tell her this?

Edwin is able to see normally in low-light conditions and demonstrates a normal ability to detect movements in his periphery.However,he has great difficulty recognizing different colors.He sees the world mostly in shades of gray.Which structure is either impaired or not present in Edwin's eyes?

When Monet paints haystacks,he depicts the haystacks that are closer to him with a lot of detail but the ones farther away with less detail.Monet is using the depth cue of ____.

When little Rosario quickly flipped the pages of her new "flip" book,Sniffy the rat appeared to run around,eat cheese,and scratch himself.Rosario's perception of Sniffy's movements is due to ____.