Exam 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind

Bottom-up processing operates like a row of standing dominoes.

According to the opponent process theory of color vision, there are three pairs of colors in which one color inhibits the perception of the other color.

Discuss three variables that influence our perception of attractiveness. In terms of levels of analysis, at what level are these variables working and why?

Why do you see a lemon as yellow?

Which is the newest of the five basic tastes to be discovered?

Perception is the ___________.

Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision are ______.

After reading the sentence "The army will go go and defeat the enemy," Sam fails to acknowledge that the word "go" is repeated. This example illustrates ________.

In theory, when can sound occur?

Categorical spatial relations are ________.

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon BEST supports the ______ theory of color vision.

Extrasensory knowledge of someone else's thoughts and feelings is called ______.

How does sensation differ from perception?

State and define four skills or forms of ESP.

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, there are three types of cones, each of which is maximally sensitive to a different wavelength.

Larry has been told by his doctor that he is experiencing ________ due to hair cells that were destroyed as a result of loud sounds.

Which of the following is a characteristic of both light waves and sound waves?

List and explain two binocular cues for depth perception and two monocular static cues. Why do we have two different types of cues for depth?

Your text authors discuss the case of ________, a prominent artist, to illustrate that our ability to make use of our senses can still occur despite physical ailments and disabilities.

Bundles of axons from ganglion cells make up the ______.