Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Zoie is riding a roller coaster. The _____ sense is offering her information regarding the speed and angle at which she is moving.

If you were doing a "Find the difference between these two pictures" feature in a magazine, you would do best with a _____ strategy.

Experimental, placebo-controlled studies have demonstrated that using subliminal messages to control appetite or smoking have _____ effect on behavior.

After visual information is transduced, the neural impulses travel on the optic nerve from the optic chiasm to the thalamus, which then sends it to the _____, the specific area in the occipital lobe devoted to visual processing.

Subliminal persuasion may _____ behavior, but not _____ behavior.

The axons of the ganglion cells bundle together to make the two _____ nerves, which come together at the _____

Why is there skepticism about ESP, even though a few studies seemed to support that it can occur?

Which of the following sequences is correct? On its way to the brain, light signals are _____ and then _____

The tendency to perceive things that look similar as part of the same group is known as _____

The fact that, when we look at an object, each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of the object, is known as _____

_____ perception is the capacity to perceive and respond to stimuli presented below the threshold of awareness.

In the morning when Khalil puts on his baseball cap, he notices the tightness around his head. However, as the morning progresses, he no longer pays attention to the baseball cap and grows accustomed to the feeling around his head. This scenario is illustrating the process of _____.

After information is brought in through sensory receptors, it goes through a conversion process before the brain is able to process it. This process is called _____

The _____ is the narrow band of light waves that our eyes can respond to.

When playing charades, it is easier to get the answer because you know what category it will be in. This illustrates _____ processing.

Dorian drove his wife to the airport so she could attend her business trip. What explains his understanding that the actual airplane is not getting smaller and smaller as he sees the airplane take off and fly high into the sky?

Jess was driving to work one day and heard his cell phone ring. He fumbled through his backpack to find his phone and then proceeded to answer it. As he took the call, he heard and felt his car hit the car in front of him. Because he wasn't directly focusing on the road while he took the call, Jess experienced what psychologists refer to as _____.

The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same physical dimensions, regardless of its distance from the viewer, is known as _____

The smallest increase or decrease in a physical stimulus that you can detect at least 50 percent of the time is called the _____ difference.

Why is transduction so important?