Exam 5: The Perceiving Mind Sensation and Perception

Saul is a cytotechnologist in training.He is asked to screen a series of tissue samples for precancerous cells.His supervisor checks his work and determines that Saul greatly overestimated the number of samples containing precancerous cells.This may be due to the fact that Saul lost his mother to cancer early in life,and is extra cautious about missing indications of cancerous cells in the samples.This illustrates ____.

Which scenario is likely to result in many hits and a high rate of false alarms?

In what orientation are images projected onto the retina?

The movement of hair cells in the vestibular system results in the production of signals in the auditory nerve.Where do the axons of the auditory nerve then form connections?

The smallest amount of stimulus that can be detected at least 50% of the time is known as the ________ threshold.

Devinder is a participant in a research study.She is asked to look at a series of images of black dots scattered in a random order and then identify which images contain at least one gray dot.She ends up greatly underestimating the number of "gray dot" images,illustrating a high number of ____.

What is the evidence that hearing begins well before birth?

Heather considers herself a "chocoholic." When she is having a bad day,she knows that a few bites of chocolate will always make her feel better.Which area of her brain is responsible for this effect?

In the most general terms,the study of sensation and perception is called psychophysics,a term that was first coined by ________.

Noreen gazes out at the city lights from her 23rd floor apartment;Jonah feels a stinging pain after falling from his bike and scraping his elbow;Maher hears the loud wail of sirens outside his dorm room window.The process that allows Noreen,Jonah,and Maher to detect these external or internal stimuli is termed ____.

Small bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds are referred to as ____.

After you roughly bump part of your body-say your shin or your "funny bone"-into something and experience pain as a result,you may help to decrease that sense of pain by rubbing the injured area.The _______ theory provides some insight as to why rubbing the area helps to lower the pain that you feel.

What evidence best illustrates that the perception of pain is influenced by experience?

Tarik is designing a new race car video game.To create the illusion of depth,how should Tarik design the backdrop in relationship to the first person driver?

To construct a three-dimensional image,we ____.

In humans,information from the vestibular system is tightly integrated with ____ processing.

Which statement is most consistent with the Gestalt psychology point of view?

The best term to describe how the monocular depth cue of occlusion works would be ________.

Where does the optic nerve cross the midline?

Professor Radcliffe prepares an exam for her Sensation and Perception class.In a rush,she writes: Proivde the corrcet answres for the following questoins.While quickly proofreading the exam,she misses her mistakes.What caused this oversight?