Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

At the exact moment that her sister was involved in a serious car accident,Anne,who was miles away in her office at work,had a "vision" in which she saw the accident in almost perfect detail.Anne's experience is what parapsychologists would call:

In daylight,the shortest wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum will look red.

Laverne looks at the tongue of her friend and sees all kinds of bumps on her tongue.She says,"You sure have a lot of _____________ on your tongue."

Which theory proposes that,above 100 Hz but below 1000 Hz,auditory neurons do not fire all at once but in rotation?

Which of the following are the auditory receptors where sound waves finally become neural impulses?

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision are:

Who actually found three types of cones in the retina?

Approximately how many taste receptors are located on each taste bud?

Which is the best description of the skin senses?

Activation of the receptors in the various sense organs by stimuli is called:

Although there is no substantial research to support the positive effects of subliminal perception in advertising,University of Waterloo's Dr.Phillip Merikle has shown that under the right conditions subliminal stimuli may influence us.He uses a procedure known as ________ in his research.

There are seven primary tastes: hot,sour,spicy,sweet,brothy,acid,and bitter.

Distinguishing between colours at night is difficult:

The problem with the trichromatic theory of colour vision is that it does not adequately explain colour blindness or the concept of afterimage.

In Gibson and Walk's experiment,one cue the babies might have used to detect depth could have been based on:

The fovea is made up of:

Which part of the eye is a muscle that regulates the size of the pupil?

The pupil is the:

The mental process of converting sensory information into neural impulses is called:

Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the colour,or hue,of light?