Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with:

Our perception of ________ is unusual in that it does not involve the thalamus.

Imagine you are participating in a friend's psychology experiment.She asks you to close your eyes and hold out your finger.She tells you that she will prick your finger with a needle in the same place several times and then will start to prick other places.Your task is to tell her when you first feel the pin prick in a different place.She then repeats the same process,but starts on your back.You might predict that the distance at which you could first detect a pin prick in a new location would be:

After being in a car crash,Yuri has the selective inability to recognize faces.He is most likely suffering from ________ due to damage to his ________.

Transduction is an important step of ________ processing,while recognition of objects is an important element of ________ processing.

Whales and elephants have the ability to distinguish much lower frequency sounds than humans can.What kind of process might be more developed in a whale or elephant's cochlea than it is in a human's cochlea?

Simon has detected the complex aroma of tabbouleh.He follows the scent into the kitchen and sees a fresh bowl of tabbouleh on the kitchen counter.Where might the olfactory and visual information about the tabbouleh be integrated in Simon's perceptual system?

Rich brought his wife a bouquet of flowers.She can tell the difference between the lilies and the lilacs most likely because of the:

Consider the two following patterns: >>>>><<<<< and +++++*****.The ten characters in the first pattern are perceived as a single figure,whereas the ten characters in the second pattern are perceived as two groups of five characters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

In classical psychophysics,the concept of an absolute threshold rests on the assumption that a subject's response is:

During transduction,most sensory information is transmitted first to the ________ before it is sent to the ________,where it is interpreted as sight,sound,touch,or taste.

Object agnosia provides support for the idea that there are two separate streams of analysis of visual information because it shows that:

Pheromone receptors are most like:

How are taste buds distributed throughout the tongue and mouth?

Sean is three years old and was born with a severe hearing impairment,but his parents both have normal hearing.Sean currently has hearing aids to help him hear,but his parents are considering a cochlear implant for him.What would be most likely to keep Sean's parents from agreeing to the procedure?

Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are,she is assessing ________ differences.When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend's Mexican beer,she is assessing a ________ difference.

The sudden,sharp pain you feel when you hit your finger with a hammer travels across what type of axon?

Due to the partial crossing of visual information at the ________,the ________ visual field projects to the right hemisphere.

The major problem to be explained in depth perception is that:

Gervase is staring at the blades of his ceiling fan,searching for inspiration for a paper that he is writing.When he turns off the fan,he is very surprised that the blades appear to be rotating in the opposite direction.To reassure Gervase that he is not hallucinating,you could tell him about: