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

Somasthetic senses involve all of the following except ________.

State the five defined somasthetic senses. List two other potential somasthetic senses, noting which of the two is more controversial.

______ is the mental process of making sense of sensory information.

________ is (are) information that specifies the distance of an object on the basis of its movement.

Flavor arises from ________.

A study reviewed in your text investigated the effect of pheromone perfume on various behaviors in females. The results included all of the following except:

When you have an injury, you may first experience a sharp pain followed by a dull pain. This example illustrates ________.

What are the five primary tastes?

Joachim and Maricella are going for a romantic walk in the park after an afternoon storm. Maricella looks up in the sky and sees a rainbow. She exclaims, "How beautiful!" Joachim, being something of a science buff, might correctly say ______________________

Continuity is the tendency _________________.

________ is the process of picking out a particular quality, object, or event for relatively detailed analysis.

Light is focused on the retina by the ______.

Figure is to ground as ________.

Conduction hearing impairment refers to hearing problems that originate in the ____________.

The place theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the __________.

According to your text, your body's largest organ is the ________.

Which of the following historical figures was noted as founding the field of "psychophysics"?

Which of the following is the primary structure that allows one to maintain his or her balance?

Determining that one bottle is slightly heavier than another illustrates a just-noticeable difference in action.

In 1981, David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel's research involving visual processing in the cortex earned them ________.