Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Brad hurt his left eye in football practice and was given an eyepatch to wear. Brad discovered that his depth perception was not as good as usual, especially when driving on unlit roads at night. This is because he could make use of only

If Kiobe, an African pygmy who grew up and lived all his life in a thick forest, told an anthropologist that the distant buffalo on the open plain were insects, one might conclude that he

Smell and taste are considered chemical senses.

If Kimberly tells you that she was surprised the shredded picture that she pieced together turned out to be an image of herself, you may assume that she had used mostly __________ processing.

Our ability to perceive color depends on the eye's transmission of different messages to the brain when lights with different___________ stimulate the ______ in the retina.

__________ respond to a person's environmental context, such as edges, contours, motion, and depth of objects.

Which of the following are classified as chemical senses?

When looking at a wall-mount telephone straight on, a rectangular image forms on Kirby's retinas; looking at the same phone at an angle from the side, a trapezoidal shape forms in each eye. Yet the phone retains the same appearance despite the changing images. This is best explained by

The coiled bony structure that makes up the inner ear is called the

Fantasy, hypnosis, biofeedback, and relaxation training are methods to help patients cope with

The middle ear functions as a(n)

The four qualities of taste are

The ability of a person to spot a traffic light while driving on a noisy, tree-lined street is a topic of people who study

The perceptual tendency to separate objects from the surroundings is called

__________ are the persistent sensations of color followed by the perception of the complementary color when the first color is removed.

When light enters the eye, it first must pass through the

If a man of normal color vision looks at a green paper for about 30 seconds and then shifts his gaze to a sheet of white paper, that paper will appear

Which of the following colors is longest in wavelength?

Thomas Young projected three different colored lights onto a screen so they partially overlapped. He found that he could produce ______________________ of the lights.

What are feature detectors?