Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

The optic nerve projects from the retina through a neural pathway that progresses to the ________ ,which is located in the ________ lobe.

The size of an object's retinal image is ________ correlated with ________.

Approximately what proportion of the cerebral cortex has been estimated to be involved in vision in some way?

As part of an experiment,Amanda is seated in front of a blank computer screen.On each trial,a line appears on the screen and then an object appears above the line.The task is to name the object as rapidly as possible.The object is either presented alone or within a scene.For example,a chicken may be presented alone or in a barnyard.People are significantly faster at naming the object when it is presented in the scene.This result is evidence for:

Sadafa loves Indian food but is careful about what he eats because it hurts his tongue when he eats bitter food.Sadafa most likely is:

The base of the cochlea responds to ________ sounds,while the tip of the cochlea responds to ________ sounds.

Imagine a very tiny person is walking through the auditory tract,from the ear canal through to the auditory nerve.When that tiny person reaches the cochlea and walks along the basilar membrane,________ frequency sounds will disturb their walk most at the base of the cochlea,and ________ frequency sounds will disturb their walk most at the tip of the cochlea.

The recent salted caramel fad most likely owes its popularity to the activation of which two taste receptors?

Avi broke his ankle skiing.At first,he felt a sharp and intense pain.The next day,the sharp pain was gone,but his ankle ached almost all the time.The sharp immediate pain was due to ________; the later aching pain was due to ________.

Aida eats green vegetables throughout her pregnancy and while she is nursing her baby because she wants her baby to have a preference for these healthy foods.Aida knows that:

Meg is rehearsing the solo for her dance performance.In order to perform her solo well,Meg has to be aware of the position of her arms and legs in space.To do this,Meg relies on her ________ sense.

Ayelet is trying to draw a picture of two people on opposite sides of a river.No matter how carefully she tries to draw the two people the same size,the person who is supposed to be on the distant side seems to be much taller than the person who is supposed to be on the closer side.You could explain that the depth cue of ________ means that she will need to draw ________ of the person who is to be seen as farther away.

According to your text,the fact that we find visual illusions so compelling suggests that the mechanisms of perceptual constancy are:

Prosopagnosia refers to a deficit in:

The law that states that the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion of the original stimulus is:

Our perception of the world is most like a:

When a ballerina pirouettes,images of the room move rapidly across her retina.She does not perceive the room as spinning wildly around her while she dances because:

The attentional focus mechanism suggested by gate control theory relies on the notion of what kind of processing?

An odor is most likely encoded by a(n):

The ________ does most of the focusing of the light onto the retina,and the ________ allows for more accuracy of focusing.