Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Which part of the eye is a muscle that regulates the size of the pupil?

The skin has many nerve endings that respond to _____ stimulation and send the neural impulses on toward the _____ cortex.

Jan thanks Sally for the "gustatory delight." She is thanking Sally for which of the following?

While camping, Alicia and Seth saw a bright light in the distance on a very dark night. After watching it for a few moments, it suddenly began to move. If they looked away and then looked back, it appeared to hover in one spot, then start moving again. They told their friends they had seen a UFO. Really, they had been fooled by _____

Most psychologists are _____ about the existence of ESP.

The Gestalt psychologists would agree that _____

A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called ____

Any experiments that seemed to support the idea that ESP exists have not been able to be _____

The depth cue in which faraway objects appear to be hazy and have a blurred outline is called _____

The part of the eye that does the first step in vision by bending light rays inward, directing them through the pupil, is the _____

The idea that one could gain information about objects or events without the use of the senses is called _____, whereas _____ refers to awareness of an event before it happens.

The receptor cells for vision are located in the _____ and are called _____ and _____

What will be the likely result, in terms of taste, if someone were to lose his/her tongue to injury or accident?

_____ allows us to know where our arms are in relation to our legs.

The _____ theory explains hearing in terms of hair cells vibrating the same number of times per second as the sounds, whereas, the _____ theory explains hearing in terms of a particular pitch and where it vibrates most along the basilar membrane.

Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the color (hue), of light?

What will likely result if an individual experiences a completely detached retina?

The _____ theory is the theory of color vision that suggests three types of cones in the retina each make a maximal chemical response to one of three colors: blue, green, or red.

The Müller-Lyer illusion demonstrates that not all perceptual illusions are only _____, but that _____ can be a factor in susceptibility to certain illusions.

As we view the world, objects often appear to stand out against a backdrop. This is the Gestalt principle of _____