Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

There is a loaf of bread behind a container of milk on the table in front of you.You see the bread as a single loaf rather than two half loaves,one on either side of the milk container.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

________ states that the more intense the original stimulus,the greater the change in intensity required to produce a just noticeable difference.

The auditory neurons extending from the ________ reach out with their axons to the primary auditory cortex (A1)in the ________.

Victoria's attraction to her coworker Mel has been unconsciously increasing for months.What might be responsible for this attraction?

Jason is doing a psychology experiment in which he is seated in an absolutely dark room.An initially undetected point of light in front of him is gradually made more intense.With each increase,he is asked if he can see the light yet.In this experiment,Jason's ________ is being measured.

We cannot see a shade of bluish yellow because:

Cameron has an inner ear infection.In addition to the pain in his ear,Cameron is most likely to:

A new,complex organism discovered by scientists can be severely injured by any exposure to hydrogen peroxide.What type of haptic receptor is this organism likely to have evolved that responds to hydrogen peroxide?

Ganglion cells that are excited by L cones are:

Scotty makes dinner by looking at his ingredients and then combining them into a meal.Nora makes dinner by deciding on the meal and then selecting the ingredients.Scotty is cooking in a ________ manner,and Nora is cooking in a ________ manner.

The pain control gate is located in the:

David's favorite food is pizza.Which part of David's gustatory system is responsible for tranducing the taste of pizza for David?

For which of the following pairs would it be easiest to discern a difference in weight?

Trichromatic theory is based upon:

As Devin runs to catch the quarterback's throw,he automatically checks the position of his arms and hands and adjusts them to the path of the ball.Which sense allows him to position his hands and arms so well?

Juan and Joseph are opera singers.Juan is a baritone.Joseph is a tenor; his voice is higher-pitched.With respect to their physical properties,the sound waves corresponding to Juan's voice are lower in ________ than those corresponding to Joseph's voice; that is,they are lower in ________.

Leonardo da Vinci identified many monocular (pictorial)depth cues,including ________,in which a near object blocks an object that is farther away.

If your leg were to become caught and squeezed in a bear trap,which sensation would you be LEAST likely to experience?

Consider the pattern: XXY XXY XXY.People perceive this pattern as consisting of three groups of three letters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

The physical properties of a stimulus are translated into neural impulses in a process called: