Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

According to this information processing model,the recognition of patterns occurs because the data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the brain.

How do the light waves reflected by a blue object differ from those reflected by a red object?

Wavelengths of light are to ________ constancy as differences in light reflected off various objects are to ________constancy.

Certain perfume companies advertise that their perfumes can help people attract a mate.If these perfumes work as advertised,we can take that as evidence of:

Because the brain cannot process physical stimuli directly,it must convert the stimuli into chemical and electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain.This process is known as:

When Maggie comes home,she is surprised to see that her roommate has painted their living room red.The room looks so dazzlingly red because the paint has absorbed the ________ wavelengths of light and is reflecting the ________ wavelengths to Maggie's eyes.

________ is the body's detection of external or internal sensory stimuli,whereas ________ is its further processing,organizing,and interpreting of those stimuli.

If the ventral stream of your visual cortex were not working temporarily,you would be unable to understand ________ an object is; but if your dorsal stream was still functioning,you could understand ________ an object is.

The first psychologists to emphasize the organizing processes underlying perception were the ________ psychologists.

Daniel is standing on the outside platform of the train station.He is looking down the tracks hoping to see his train.As the tracks get farther from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to ________ ,providing the depth cue of ________.

The primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe?

All five of the familiar human sensory systems send information to the brain through the cranial nerves,but one sensory system sends information to the brain through the spinal nerves as well.Which of our sensory systems can also send information to the brain through the spinal nerves?

Temperature receptors that signify heat when they are activated:

Artists did not learn to represent depth in paintings until the Renaissance.This fact suggests that:

Regarding visual illusions,which of the following statements is most accurate?

What is retained by people with hearing aids but lost in people who receive cochlear implants?

Amadi is listening to John play the guitar.When John plays a note,the vibrations of the air are picked up by auditory receptors in his ear and sent to his brain.In Amadi's brain,the information from the receptors is analyzed to produce the experience of a musical note.The pickup of information by receptors in the ear is ________; the processing to produce the experience of a musical note is ________.

Someone who needs reading glasses to see at a close distance has problems ________ her lens.Someone who needs glasses to see objects at a distance has problems ________ his lens.

Anna is reading her psychology text.The activation of receptors in her retina is called ________; her interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is termed ________.

On Monday,Manuel interviewed for a job that he really wants.The interviewer told Manuel that he would call on Friday to tell Manuel if he got the job.On late Friday afternoon,Manuel is in the shower,straining to hear the phone above the noise of the water.Whenever he hears a sound,he thinks it is the phone.Manuel is showing ________ ,a concept described in ________.