Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

An old comedy routine on television had a character who would line up the heads of people who were very far away from him between his fingers.Then he would pinch his fingers together and say gleefully,"I'm crushing your head,I'm crushing your head." The comedian was playing around with which perceptual constancy?

Proximity is the tendency ___________.

The term just noticeable difference is synonymous with __________.

Bottom-up processing is initiated by __________.

When we look at a white house,we can recognize it as a white house by day or night and from any angle.This is due to perceptual __________.

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

The pupil is the __________.

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

Suppose Maria is painting while the sun is setting; once she notices that the room is getting darker,she decides to call it quits for the day.This example illustrates the role of __________.

The patch of nasal membrane tissue that houses receptor cells for smell is the __________.

When we describe someone's eyes as blue,technically we are referring to his or her blue ___________.

The first location to receive smell information in the brain is the __________.

Nerve hearing impairment due to problems in the auditory cortex of the brain has been easily corrected with hearing aids.

Whether you are standing right next to it or a mile away from it,you know a tree is the same size because of________.

You will more than likely see "XXX XXX XXX" as three groups of "X" rather than one group of nine "X"s.This example illustrates which of the following Gestalt laws?

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:

If an artist were to blend red,green,and blue lights together by focusing lights of those three colors on one common spot,the result would look __________.

The inner lining on the back of the eyeball which is sensitive to light is called the _______.

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 ___________.

The pathway from the retina to the brain that enables us to see is rods and cones to bipolar cells to ganglion cells to optic nerve.