Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Jan can see objects well up close, but they appear blurry from afar. She is probably

Human perception of high-pitched tones is best explained by ________ theory.

This is the psychic trick of

Which of the following is the best example of the signal-to-noise ratio?

A blind spot is a part of the visual field we can't see, where the ________ connects to the ________.

Explain why food tastes different when we have a cold versus when we do not.

The name given to the sense of our body position is

Carol is at the football game and watching the half-time show. Which Gestalt principle best explains her ability to "recognise" her school's letters as the band members spell them out on the field?

Information about ________ travels to the spinal cord and brain more quickly than information about ________.

Scott is at lunch with his friends, playing with some straws. He places two coins between straws that are parallel and two between two straws that are angled toward each other. What perceptual illusion is Scott trying to re-create?

Computer programmers often use binary codes (strings of 1s and 0s)to write programs for computers. These codes are then changed into patterns that the computer recognises as words, pictures, sounds, and so forth. Which process does this most resemble in humans and other animals?

Quentin is suffering from a disorder that causes him to have problems recognising everyday objects. The other day he was looking at a wine glass and couldn't come up with its name. He said to his wife, "I want one of those things that you hold the wine in", but try as he did, he could not find the word "glass". This demonstrates a form of visual ________.

The ________ is determined by the frequency of a sound wave.

The central portion of the retina is the

When Julius first entered and sat down in the classroom, he felt cold. However, ten minutes later he no longer felt cold. This change is most likely the result of sensory ________.

The ability to perceive stimuli consistently despite variations in viewing conditions is called ________.

Our ability to see action in movies, rather than a series of static pictures, is the result of

Pedro is so fearful of getting hurt while playing sports that he often stops playing when he experiences the slightest degree of discomfort. His father refers him to a sports psychologist to deal with this problem. The sports psychologist is likely to help Pedro by showing him how to control his ________ reactions to pain.

Royce is listening to a debate involving the two candidates for senate candidates in his state. Prior to the debate, he had a strong opinion favouring one candidate over the other. As he listens to the debate, he interprets each candidate's answers based on his own beliefs and expectations about them rather than listening and interpreting exactly what each said. Royce is engaging in ________ processing.

The fact that our eyes see near objects as being quite different while seeing distant objects as being quite similar is known as ________.