Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The ability to sense the color yellow can be explained by ____.

When Cheryl looks across the room, she sees part of her husband, but the couch is in front of him, obscuring her view of his legs. Cheryl understands that this means that her husband is more distant from her than the couch is. Cheryl is using the depth cue of ____.

Herb, an artist who works with colored lights, likes to use saturated colors. What does this mean?

Based on the different visual abilities of males and females, which activity would most likely be performed better by a female?

It is the middle of the day and you are outside in the bright sunlight. In order to give you the best possibility of seeing the colors and detail of a large flower in your garden, you should ____.

An individual suffering from red-green color blindness may be lacking ____.

Stephan is a surgeon. After 10 hours of looking into a surgical incision, he looks up at the white walls of the operating room and sees pinkish flashes of light. What is Stephan experiencing?

The moon illusion, the Ponzo illusion, and the Müller-Lyer illusion have all been explained by errors due to the mind's tendency to interpret based on ____.

Gustation is to ____, as olfaction is to ____.

Which skin structure is important to the sense of pain?

Jack is asleep when his wife turns on the bedroom light and awakens him. Upon opening his eyes, Jack temporarily finds the bright light painful because ____.

The trichromatic theory has difficulty explaining ____.

Compared to men who sniffed pure saline, men who sniffed a woman's tears (while the woman was not present) ____.

You are trying to see the color of your ink pen while taking lecture notes in a darkened auditorium. Where should you hold the ink pen to have the greatest chance of perceiving its color?

The lock-and-key theory proposes that ____.

Which statement is TRUE regarding taste buds?

Ginny's grandmother often does not have much appetite. She complains that food just doesn't taste good anymore, even though she is preparing it the same way she always has. What could Ginny suggest to help her grandmother's appetite improve?

Which part of the eye is a supporting structure that does not play a role in vision?

Which of the following is TRUE regarding the sense of taste?

Earrings are worn on the _____ of the ear.