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

Treisman's research reviewed in your text was conducted to determine whether we could attend to more than one ear when listening to recordings. The procedure she employed allowing her to address the issue was referred to as ________ listening.

The fovea is made up of ______.

Each retina of the eye has about ______ million rods and cones.

Pitch is to frequency as ________.

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensation at all in a person is the just-noticeable threshold.

All of the following are considered "traditional" tastes except:

Jamie, a toddler, is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks red, blue, and so on. In doing so, she is referring to its ________.

The cilia in the nasal cavity act in a manner similar to taste buds in that they______________.

The three types of cones were originally believed to correspond to the following colors: red, green, and blue. The authors reviewed research that indicates these colors should be updated to which of the following combinations?

An example of a group or organization that tries to maximize the similarity between figure and ground would be a(n) ________.

Suppose you look at a given figure and decide that, depending on how you look at it, it can be perceived as either an old woman or a young lady. Such a figure would be said to be ________.

Which of the following pairs is considered to be an example of opponent cells?

________ arise(s) from both eyes working together.

Chemical senses typically include ________.

The three types of wavelength referred to in the trichromatic theory of color vision are ________.

Which is the best description of the kinesthetic sense?

The principle that the just noticeable difference of any given sense is a constant fraction or proportion of the stimulus being judged is called ______.

According to your authors, Phase 2 of Visual Perception accomplishes ________ major goals.

Which of the following figures is associated with the trichromatic theory of color vision?

________ occurs when the eye converts the electromagnetic energy that is light into nerve impulses.