Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Red and green appear to be opposite colours because of the activity of ganglion cells that are:

The image on the retina resulting from a photograph of the Eiffel Tower is the same as seeing the Eiffel Tower in person. We are able to see depth in photographs because:

Students participating in a psychology experiment are asked to identify the emotions expressed by a number of different kinds of faces. On which type of face would they recognize the emotion the most quickly?

Li-Ting is painting a picture. She paints a vase of flowers and then, right next to it, half of a book. When Bijal looks at the painting, she sees the book as being _____________ because of ____________.

Prashanth is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is asked to gradually shrink the image of a square on his computer screen until he can see that it is smaller than a second square on the screen. Prashanth is trying to create a ____________, in order to allow measurement of a ____________.

People see the figure ( ) as an oval rather than two separate curving lines. Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Cross-cultural research suggests that which type of depth cues need to be learned through experience?

Pain medications work by:

People stop responding to unchanging stimuli because:

According to signal detection theory, a person's perception is:

Master chefs are likely to have ____________ than other people.

Callie is pregnant. She has never liked vegetables and rarely eats them. However, she does not want her baby to have the same bad eating habits. If Callie wants her baby to grow up to enjoy the taste of vegetables, the most effective thing she can do is:

An odour is encoded by:

Someone who wears a hearing aid is most likely to have a problem with his ____________. Someone who has a cochlear implant is most likely to have a problem with her ____________.

Each eye sees more of the world on its own side of the visual field. A combination of the views from the two eyes provides humans with an adaptive advantage by creating a broader panorama of the scene. It also creates the depth cue of:

Damian frequently runs into Carmen while he is walking his dog. He is puzzled because Carmen always greets his dog, but never greets him until he has spoken to her. He becomes even more perplexed when Carmen says, "Oh look, there is Ryan's car," even though Ryan is standing right next to the car. You could enlighten Damian by telling him that Carmen quite likely suffers from:

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

In the Ponzo illusion, cues to size and distance conflict. The fact that an illusion of size is created suggests that:

If a key is pressed on a piano, the frequency of the resulting sound will determine the ____________ and the amplitude will determine the ____________ of the perceived musical note.

The basic problem of visual perception that illusions highlight is that: