Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

Sense receptors convert the energy of the stimulus to:

Principles that describe the brain's organization of sensory building blocks into meaningful units and patterns are called Gestalt principles.

The trichromatic theory applies to the level of processing that occurs in the:

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

Which of the following is NOT one of the explanations provided to explain our lack of awareness of the blind spot in our field of vision?

Taste buds are located primarily on the tongue, but also in the throat, cheeks, and roof of the mouth.

Rods and cones are connected by synapses to ________, which in turn communicate with ________.

Rita's favourite navy blue sweater is perceived as maintaining its hue whether Rita is outdoors or indoors. Yet the wavelengths of light reaching Rita's eyes do change as the illumination changes. How does this occur?

In dark adaptation, rods adapt slowly, taking 20 minutes or longer.

Research on our sense of smell shows that the olfactory centres in the brain are linked to areas that process memories and emotions.

The wavelength of light is related to our perception of:

Determine whether each cue to depth perception is binocular or monocular. -convergence

White men are more than twice as likely to be colour deficient than are black men.

The visual receptors are located in the back of the eye, or:

Interposition is one of the binocular cues to depth.

When she goes into the office Amelia doesn't know how she is going to make it through the whole morning due to an annoying buzz from an overhead light. But when a co-worker complains about the noise an hour later, Amelia realizes that she hadn't been aware of the sound. This is called:

When two stimuli are compared, the smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer is called the just noticeable difference.

The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye is called:

White light is:

Sensory adaptation spares us from having to respond to unimportant sensory information.