Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The phenomenon that lets us perceive objects as having stable properties no matter their distance, viewing angle, or lighting is called _____

If you are standing on one foot and you close your eyes, you don't immediately fall over because your _____ fills in for some of the missing visual information.

An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to _____

_____ is the technical name for nearsightedness, whereas _____ is the technical name for farsightedness.

_____ is the dimension of light that refers to the specific color perceived.

When information is taken in through the senses, the process is referred to as _____

Our brain seems to search for a stable _____ point in the environment in order to judge motion.

The receptor cells that allow us to see color and fine detail in adequate light are the _____

In an experiment, Beau was told to watch the basketball team in the blue shirts and count how many baskets they made. Later he learned a person in a giraffe costume had walked on and off the court during the game and he had not seen it! He was disturbed to think that he could have missed something so obvious and wondered if there was something wrong with him. You could reassure him by explaining that _____ is a normal phenomenon in human perception.

Molly _____ the stimulation coming in from the environment and _____ what she is experiencing.

While at The Home Depot picking out a color of paint for her bathroom, Leticia narrows her search down to two options. She likes the color of the first one and the purity in color of the second one. Leticia's decision is between the _____ of the first paint choice and the _____ of the second paint choice.

_____ is the number of cycles completed by a sound wave in one second, measured as _____ determining the _____ of a sound.

Compared with people trained to associate words with colors, people with _____ show different brain areas are active when hearing words and seeing colors with them.

The German word gestalt has no exact English equivalent but means roughly _____

Loud music has to be turned up much louder for us to notice the difference. When music is playing softly, we notice the difference if it is turned up just a little. This is an example of _____

Molly looks at a plate while standing in front of it. She moves over and looks at it from a 45-degree angle, and by golly, it still looks round. This is because of _____

Bottom-up processing is a _____-driven strategy used to form complete, meaningful, perceptions.

Gloria says that it relieves the pain in her broken finger when she takes a multivitamin. Her mother taught her this trick. Jeff says it's all in her head. He is correct because _____

A bottom-up processing strategy is best for certain types of tasks because the top-down strategy can keep you from processing important _____

Felicia's Mom nags her about not getting her son to eat more broccoli and salad greens. Felicia tries to explain to her mother that it is difficult because _____