Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

What is it about the fovea that allows it to provide the sharpest and clearest vision?

Lola ordered a piping hot espresso at the local coffeehouse. As she began to drink it, she noticed that it was too cold. The information brought to her brain from her tongue, sight, and sense of touch is referred to as _____, whereas the understanding that she was drinking espresso and not milk or soda is referred to as _____.

What concept is at play when your expectation of what will be perceived actually affects the reality of what you perceived?

Which of the following could explain why women in general have more pain tolerance than men do?

Continuity is the tendency to _____

Our vision can adapt to change between bright light and dark, but it takes a moment because the _____ in our receptor cells must break apart into _____ and _____ for light adaptation and recombine for dark adaptation.

It is not a psychic ability that allows Han to know that someone is talking about him in the auditorium. Hearing his name is a strong attentional cue and he is experiencing the _____ phenomenon, where we perceive only the conversations our attention focuses on amidst all the people talking.

Laverne looks at the tongue of her friend and sees all kinds of bumps on her tongue. "Girl," she says, "you sure have a lot of _____

The sensory stimuli, such as sound waves, we receive from the environment has to be converted into _____ signals in order to be transmitted to our brain.

After you are aware that a stimulus exists, the _____ threshold is reached when you are then able to notice an increase or decrease in that stimulus.

Starting with a concept, or expectation, of what you will perceive is called a(n)_____ set.

The Ponzo illusion plays a trick on our estimate of _____

During a classroom experiment, Jay found out that he could sense a hair on his arm when it was barely touched with a pencil tip by Gerard. However, Jay had to wiggle a hair on Gerard's arm back and forth several times before Gerard could detect the sensation. The scientific explanation for this is that Jay and Gerard have different _____ thresholds.

The last vision-processing step before signals are sent to the brain is in the _____

In a classic study, psychologists were admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a false diagnosis of schizophrenia. They behaved in normal ways, but the staff saw their behavior as signs of schizophrenia. This study illustrates the power of _____

The visual depth cues perceived with one eye alone are called _____ depth cues.

Closure is the tendency to _____

Taste receptors in humans are replaced _____.

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

According to _____-control theory, interference from other neural messages reduces our perception of pain by _____