Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

If your psychology teacher conducts research on specific neurons in the occipital lobe to determine when they fire in response to specific shapes of line orientations, he is most likely a(n) ____.

Pedro was having dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant when he took a sip of scalding hot wonton soup and burned his tongue. As a result of this injury, Pedro is most likely to experience ____.

Not being able to accurately detect the colors of objects seen in your peripheral vision is best explained by ____.

The lock-and-key theory proposes that ____ are stimulated by ____, much post-synaptic neurons and certain neurotransmitters.

Neural impulses from touch travel first to the ____.

Which statement is NOT true regarding the cones that line the inside layer of the retina?

Which progression represents the correct pathway for visual information?

The optic nerve is composed of ____.

The ability to sense the position of our body parts in space and in relation to one another is called ____.

Maria is on the viewing deck of a tall building and notices that objects in the distance appear hazy in comparison to objects that are close. Maria is using the depth cue of ____.

Where does sound get converted into neural impulses?

Our kinesthetic sense gathers its primary information from ____, whereas our vestibular sense gathers its primary information from ____.

Which statement regarding supertasters is TRUE?

The opponent-process theory states that ____.

After staring at a particular color for a long time and then looking at a white background, a negative afterimage occurs because the ____.

Five-year-old Tyra is drawing and she wants to show that the house is farther away than the tree in her picture. To do this, Tyra draws the house smaller than the tree. Tyra is using which depth cue(s) in her picture?

Which sequence is correct for taste sensations traveling from the tongue to the brain?

Identify and describe the two senses that make up our body senses.

In humans, exposure to pheromones has been found to ____.

A photo of a blue and black dress may appear white and gold depending upon one's perception of whether it was photographed in bright light or dim light, an effect that may be due to ____.