Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

When Vincente picks up Tillie for their date he notices that her perfume smells wonderful, but that she is wearing too much of it. The information that the perfume smells good is processed in Vincente's ____________; the information that Tillie is wearing too much perfume is processed in Vincente's ____________.

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 ____________.

A grey square is placed first on a white sheet of paper and then on a black sheet of paper. The square will be ____________ on the black as on the white background.

Mick is getting a tattoo. The tattoo artist creates tiny points adjacent to each other on the skin to tattoo a line. The information from the needle pricks will be represented in the primary somatosensory cortex:

Imagine that 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:

When you are on a small bluff, the ocean sand looks smooth and uniform, but when you sit down on the sand you can see all of the bumps and colours. This is an example of which depth cue?

If the muscles of one eye are paralyzed, making it impossible to change the point of focus of that eye, which kind of depth cue will become unavailable?

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.

In a single person, gustation involves ____________ taste buds, all located on the ____________.

It is a warm summer day and a group of friends has decided to go on a picnic. Unfortunately, the watermelon they brought has attracted some stinging wasps. Who would experience the most pain if one of these wasps were to sting:

If you look at a square made up of alternating red and blue stripes for several minutes, then look immediately at a blank white sheet of paper, you will see a square with alternating green and yellow stripes. This results from pairs of ____________ that work ____________ to produce the effect.

Jasmine wants to get Uchenna's attention in the library. She whispers to avoid disturbing other students. However, she speaks so softly that Uchenna cannot hear her and keeps reading. Jasmine's voice is:

Zheng and Glenn are talking about how a guy can tell if a woman likes him when they first meet. Given your knowledge of sensory systems, you could suggest that they look to see if the woman:

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

The axons from ____________ cells form the ____________, which exits the eye at the back of the retina.

The illusion of the Ames room works because:

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

From an adaptive standpoint, the disproportionate area of the cortex devoted to vision suggests that our visual system ____________ than our other senses.

Sadie can frequently tell when her friends are going to make major changes in their lives. She attributes this to extra sensory perception. Which of the following is most like the response that a psychological scientist would give her?