Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

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

When driving on the highway, you notice that the bushes at the side of the road appear to be passing very quickly. In the distance you can see a very tall tree and you notice that it takes half an hour to drive past it. What depth cue is causing this speed discrepancy?

Anne is participating in a psychology experiment in which she is blindfolded and asked to judge whether the experimenter taps her on the shoulder in 10 separate trials. During the third trial, the experimenter taps Anne on the shoulder, yet she reports feeling nothing. In signal detection theory, this would be considered a:

The concept of an absolute threshold in classical psychophysics rests on the assumption that a subject's response is:

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 throbbed almost all of the time. The sharp immediate pain was due to ____________; the later throbbing pain was due to ____________.

A doctor is willing to prescribe a drug for you even if there is only a slim chance you have the disease. This doctor is most concerned with:

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

Simple cells in the primary visual cortex:

Electronic signs create an illusion of movement by illuminating small adjacent lights in rapid succession. This is an example of:

Hamdi wakes up in the middle of the night and tries to see the clock in the dim light. He will be more likely to be able to read the time if he looks at the clock with his ____________ because it has the largest number of ____________.

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

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?

Placido is listening to an opera. When the soprano sings, his neurons respond to her voice primarily in the ____________; when the bass sings, Placido's neurons respond to his voice primarily in the ____________.

Edges are emphasized in vision by:

Suppose that Henry is recording the firing rate of a simple cell in the primary visual cortex that is specialized for the colour red. He presents you with squares that are red, pink, and blue. He should expect the firing rate of the cell to be ____________ for the red square, to be ____________ for the pink square, and ____________ for the blue square.

Our perceptions of sensations from the environment around us are:

Joey had his wisdom teeth removed two days ago and is still in a lot of pain. All of the following would be effective in reducing Joey's pain, EXCEPT:

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 trying to study, but whenever he hears a sound, he jumps up and thinks it's the phone. Manuel is showing ____________, a concept described in ____________.

Where do molecules of photopigment reside?

As part of an experiment, Ananda 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: