Exam 4: B: Sensation and Perception

At the national cheerleading contest,all the contestants are seated in one area within the stadium.Although 1,000 students are seated in this area,your eyes discern about 100 groups due to each group of cheerleaders having different color outfits.The way you grouped these students is most likely due to the perceptual principle of

The fact that objects that are close in space to each other tend to be grouped together is known as

You are sitting in the pit area at the Indianapolis 500.You closely watch one of the cars whiz around on the track in front of the seething mass of humanity crammed into the stands.You have organized this visual scene such that the race car is considered the

When you put a picture puzzle together that you have seen many times,you will be using __________ processing.

An imaginary perception,such as seeing,hearing,or smelling something that does not exist in the external world is called a(n)

Perceptual construction proceeds in two major ways,which involves __________ processing.

Dysosmia can be caused by all of the following EXCEPT

According to Ronald Melzack,phantom limb sensations can best be explained by

Before sending messages down the spinal cord and closing the pain gate,messages from the small,slow fibers must first pass through the pain gate and on to the __________ system.

Jack lost the lower part of his right leg during a roadside bomb attack in Iraq.He often feels like "his right foot" is in an awkward position and has burning pain sensations.Jack is experiencing