Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Helen is looking at a picture in which some of the border is missing. However, she is still able to understand that the object is a picture of an American flag due to the perceptual principle of _____

All our hours of movie enjoyment are made possible by the _____

Your friends Kara and Lincoln are arguing over something Lincoln read in the newspaper. The newspaper reported, and Lincoln agrees, that sound can be heard in outer space. Kara disagrees. Which one of your friends is correct? Why? Provide scientific support for your answer.

Brain-imaging studies have shown that we process social information with _____

James Gibson pointed out that perception of motion is based on fundamental but frequently _____ assumptions about stability.

The structure that enlarges or becomes smaller depending on the amount of light needed for vision is referred to as the _____.

Illusions result from _____ of sensory input; extrasensory perception involves perception that is _____ sensory input.

Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become _____

Mirabella was eating a delicious scone. In order for her to have perceived the taste of it, the food stimulus had to meet or exceed her _____ threshold.

Brendan just got married and is not used to wearing a wedding band on his left hand. Joel, his best man and a psychology student, correctly reassures him with which of the following statements?

Your friend Fred is writing a poem for his creative writing class. He needs a single word to describe the sensation and process of hearing. As a psychology student studying the sensation and perception chapter of your textbook, you know to shout out, "_____!"

If our visual perception depended only on the feature detectors in the visual cortex, what would we see?

Which of the following is an example of an automatic, noneffortful mental process of perception?

Smell signals are transmitted to neurons in the _____, then to other parts of the limbic system for _____ interpretation.

What is the best explanation for the dog's superior sense of smell compared to ours?

The images cast on our retinas are _____ like _____

_____ neurons fire when we observe a motor action (movement), and when we produce one.

_____ is the mental process of making meaning out of sensory information.

What is the purpose of sensory adaptation?

The sense of smell is also known as _____