Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Which of the following is most likely to open the pain gate?

A significant finding of Dr.J.Lindstrom and associates' research investigation into our sense of smell is:

The tendency to perceive objects that are in a shared area or region as being in a group is known as:

The kinesthetic senses are concerned with:

What is the basic function of the outer ear?

An illusion is defined as:

Which pairing of a scientist's name and a property of light is correct?

The eardrum is also called the:

Each retina of the eye has about ______ million rods and cones.

The longest wavelengths we can see are found at the ______ end of the colour spectrum.

The coloured part of the eye that contains muscles to contract or expand the pupil is the:

Light is focused on the retina by the:

Which part of the eye contains two types of special photoreceptors?

Knowledge of future events is called:

If an artist were to blend red,green,and blue paints together,the result would look:

When one object appears to be blocking another object,the viewer assumes that the blocked object is farther away.This perception is called:

The smallest amount of a particular stimulus required to produce any sensation at all in the person to whom the stimulus is presented is the ______ threshold.

Which theory of colour vision accounts better for the afterimage?

Which two sensory modalities are most commonly fused in synesthesia?

Sound waves are simply: