Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

The ________ psychologists studied how people organize the world visually into meaningful units and patterns.

Functional coding, as opposed to anatomical coding, helps explain:

The receptors for vision, hearing, and taste are specialized cells separated from sensory neurons by synapses.

The doctrine of specific energies proposes that the nervous system encodes sensory messages by means of a/an:

________ is sensory crossover where stimulation of one sense also evokes a sensation in another.

Cones adapt more quickly than rods under conditions of dim illumination.

When Brett walks out of the theatre into the glare of the sun, his ________ gets smaller to let less light in.

The gate-control theory of pain helps explain:

Research using the visual cliff shows that infants have an intense fear of heights that begins at about two months of age.

The actual organ of hearing is the eardrum.

In mammals, special feature-detector cells in the visual cortex respond to different patterns and specialties.

When many frequencies are present but are not in harmony, we hear noise.

Sensory adaptation is a useful process because it:

When the lens of the eye focuses light on the retina, the result is a/an:

The intensity of a sound wave's pressure corresponds to the frequency of the wave.

The difference threshold is defined as the:

Marcy is seated in a dark room facing a wall. She is shown flashes of light that vary in brightness and is asked to say whether or not she sees a flash. Marcy is having her ________ measured.

In signal-detection tasks, naysayers will have more hits than yea-sayers.

Scientists agree that there are five senses.

Hue, brightness, and saturation are all physical properties of the visual stimulus, light.