Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

With the exception of chronic pain, pain

Weber's law best fits sensory stimuli that are

Supertasters have the same number of taste buds as medium and non-tasters.

The technical name for the sensation of smell is called gustation.

Which of the following theories best explains the phenomena of afterimages and the perception of the colour yellow?

According to the text, supertasters have ________ people with a reduced ability to taste.

Each of the following statements about all colour-blind people is true, except

The textbook calls illusions a form of hallucination

Nearsightedness (hyperopia) occurs when the lens focuses images of distant objects in front of, rather than on, the retina.

Which of the following is not true of cones?

Each skin receptor responds only to touch, pressure, warmth or cold.

Why do we naturally rub an area of the body that we have hit or stimulated in such a way that we expect pain?

As we view people and objects from different angles and distances and under different lighting conditions, we tend to see them as maintaining the same size, shape, brightness, and colour. We call this phenomenon Gestalt constancy.

As we grow older, our lens loses some elasticity-that is, it loses the ability to change its shape to accommodate for near vision, a condition called

The higher the frequency of a sound wave, the

Hue is to ________ of light as brightness is to ________ of light.

Size constancy is defined as the ability of the perceptual system to be influenced more by the actual size of objects than by

Monocular depth cues include all of the following except

Compare and contrast monocular with binocular depth cues.

what you expect to perceive-determines, to a large extent, what you actually see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.