Exam 4: C: Sensation and Perception

Labeling people as "gang members" or "mental patients" tends to

Parapsychologists believe the "decline effect" shows

The problem with giving so much weight to eyewitness testimony in court is that

The illusion that railroad tracks come together in the distance involves the depth cue of

The purported ability to perceive events or gain information in ways that appear unaffected by distance or normal physical barriers is called

In your textbook is an illusion that consists of two white lines placed across railroad tracks that converge in the distance.Although the two white lines are equal in length,the upper line will look longer because it appears to be farther away than the lower line.This illusion called the Ponzo illusion can be used to explain the

In general,learning tends to create

The pictorial depth cue regarding objects placed closer to the horizon line being perceived as more distant is referred to as

Five-year-old Jay drew a picture of an Easter bunny hiding eggs.He drew a small bunny at the top of the page as if the bunny is hopping away from the large multicolored egg at the bottom of the page.Jay has used which two pictorial cues?

When you are traveling in a wide open space with clean air,very distant mountains often appear to be closer than they really are.This occurrence is due to a decrease in

Research conducted by Chua,Boland,and Nisbett found that American participants tended to focus on the figure within a scene,while the Chinese participants focused on the background.They concluded that the Chinese tend to have a

Attention is focused by

The perception of space and depth caused chiefly by the fact that the eyes receive different images is known as

By looking out a window and moving your head from side to side,one can demonstrate relative motion with which type of objects appearing to move a sizable distnace as your head moves?

In Edgar Mitchell's telepathy experiment in space,the below-average trials of his receivers were

A perceptual hypothesis that we are likely to apply to a stimulus,even if applying it is inappropriate is called

If you were asked to look at an advertisement of various shops on a city street,and you saw an octopus sitting on a bench near the curb in front of one of the shops,you would most likely

One of the tools director James Cameron developed especially for his 3-D film Avatar was a stereoscopic camera that creates a sensation of depth by simulating

You are low on gas and you see a sign saying "FUEL AHEAD." However,as you draw closer to the sign,you realize it actually says "FOOD AHEAD." This is an example of a

Recent experiments on eyewitness testimony have shown that the relationship between a person's confidence in his or her testimony and its accuracy