Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

As sounds become louder,their ______ increases.

When you look out the window of a car that is traveling 60 mph,objects at different locations appear to move in different directions and different speeds.This apparent motion is known as:

The aspect of color that corresponds to names such as red,green,and blue is __________.

You are seated at a small table talking to a friend opposite you who is drinking coffee.As she lifts the cup off the saucer and raises it to her mouth,the image made on your retina by the bottom of the cup actually changes shape,but you still "see" it as round due to:

The visual information from each eye is split at the __________________,with half of the nerve fibers from each eye projecting to each half of the brain.

What structure in your eye is most like the film in a camera?

Light receptors which help us to see best at night are the __________.

In a signal detection task,the participant says that she doesn't detect a signal but a signal was present.This is called a _____________.

Michelle looks out of the train window and judges that one cactus is farther away than another because it appears to be moving more slowly.Michelle is relying on _____ to make this judgment.

Although she is normally not aware of its existence,Ingrid discovers that she has a blind spot in her vision by closing one eye and focusing on a fixed point.What explains why Ingrid has this blind spot in her vision?

An increase in the frequency of sound waves will correspond most directly to an increase in _______.

The process of selecting one stimulus or task to focus on and ignoring or minimizing others is called ____________.

The _______________ theory states that how we perceive pitch is based on the location along the basilar membrane that sound stimulates.

Light is focused on the retina by the _______.

The _____________ system is involved in smell-the detection of airborne particles with specialized receptors located in the nose.

Which gestalt principle refers to the perceptual rule that lines and other objects tend to be continuous,rather than abruptly changing direction?

Some people claim to be unable to perceive faces,yet scientists think that they may be able to do so unconsciously.What is the evidence for this?

Which represents the correct order in which vibrations pass from the outer to inner ear?

Ordinarily we need to know not only what something is,but also where it is.Because vision doesn't give us this information directly,we must infer it.Explain five of the visual cues listed in the textbook.

The _____ in the thalamus is where the optic nerves from the left and right eyes converge.