Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Bottom-up processing:

The fact that most people perceive individual elements that are close to each other as being part of a single group is consistent with the Gestalt law of ____________________.

In the eye, transduction of the electromagnetic energy into neural impulses occurs:

The area of the retina that will trigger the firing of a specific ganglion cell makes up that cell's:

Which theory states that impulses generated by pain receptors can be blocked in the spinal cord by signals originating in the brain?

Hubel and Wiesel discovered cells in the visual cortex of cats that responded only to a specific length of line moving in a specific direction.They called these cells:

The cells in the eye that convert electromagnetic energy into neural signals are called:

The key idea behind the opponent-process theory of color vision is that:

The fact that most people perceive individual elements that are moving in the same direction as being part of a single group is consistent with the Gestalt law of ____________________.

The Gestalt law of good continuation suggests that when lines cross each other, people tend to still perceive continuously flowing, smooth lines.

The intensity level at which people can successfully detect the presence of a stimulus 50% of the times it is present is called the:

When one tilts the head, receptor cells in the ____________________ quickly transmit the appropriate orientation information to the brain.

The ____________________ membrane is another term for the eardrum.

The monocular depth cue in which shadows cast by objects on others assist in depth perception is:

Humans are capable of detecting sounds that range between:

Research into auditory perception has shown that high frequency sounds cause the basilar membrane to become:

When a person has damage to his or her brain that produces prosopagnosia, the individual loses the ability to:

Explain how the body records and processes temperature.

The technique used to determine the ability of someone to detect the presence of a stimulus is:

The collection of processes used to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of an experience is called: