Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Our ability to see objects as relatively stable and unchanging despite changing sensory information is called perceptual ___________.

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called __________.

Elements that share common features such as size,shape,or color are viewed as a set.This defines which Gestalt law of organization?

Dark adaptation is the process by which visual receptors become increasingly sensitive to dim light.

The trichromatic theory states that:

An object's elevation is a perspective cue to _______.

To help identify objects with our sense of touch,we move the object in our hands and actively explore it.This is known as ___________.

Which of the following is a binocular cue to depth?

Keegan notices that his favorite 55-cent candy bar seems lighter than usual and so he checks the label to find that it is lighter by ½ ounce.He decides to buy a larger candy bar instead and doesn't notice that the 99-cent candy bar is also ½ ounce lighter.Keegan's behavior illustrates the fact that:

Stewart is sitting in his office,which is lighted with a bluish neon light,eating a red apple.Even though the apple is bathed in bluish light,he continues to perceive it as red.This illustrates:

_____ is the study of how physical events relate to psychological perceptions of those events.

What structure is primarily responsible for focusing light onto the back of the eye?

_____ hearing loss results from damage to the cochlear hair cells and the neurons making up the auditory nerve.

Once sound waves have been converted into neural activity,the ___________ carries them to the brain for auditory perception.

People with tactile agnosia have difficulty identifying objects by touching them.

Our tendency to see objects as relatively stable and unchanging despite changing sensory information is called _______.

A drawing of a gravel road depicts the tiny rocks as becoming smaller and less distinct as one looks "down the lane." This simulation of depth on a two-dimensional sheet of paper is an example of the _______ cue.

Humans can hear sounds ranging from about:

Which of the following statements is true?

According to the opponent process theory of color vision,the correct pairings of opposite colors are: