Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

If the bones of the middle ear begin to deteriorate,you will develop _______________ hearing impairment.

The best explanation of the moon illusion is the ____________ hypothesis.

You hit yourself with a hammer and later suffer a deep ache.This is an example of ________ pain.

The gate-control theory of pain suggests that the:

What type of colour blindness would be considered rare?

When you first put your hat on,you can feel it quite easily,but after a while,you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone.What happens?

The trichromatic and opponent process theories of colour vision are not in conflict because each corresponds to:

A person with red-green colour blindness will see the world in:

A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio.He says that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate unneeded and undesired wavelengths.What term describes the characteristic of sounds waves that the sound mixer is now able to alter?

The notion that pain signals must pass through a type of "doorway" in the spinal cord is called the ______________ theory of pain.

What is the pupil of the eye?

Helmholtz's explanation of colour vision is called the ______ theory.

A recent review of studies on ESP using the ganzfeld procedure concluded that:

Herman Von Helmholtz proposed the place theory of pitch.

Which skin receptors respond only to pressure?

Saccades are defined as:

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensation at all in a person is called the noticeable threshold.

A reversible figure,such as the Necker cube,makes use of which principle of perception?

The receptors on our taste buds work most like:

There is/are _____________ somesthetic sense system(s).