Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Bincheng has been taught to visualize the pain from his migraine headaches as simply a part of his experience of life. While he is engaging in this activity, an fMRI scan of his brain would be likely to show ____________ activity in the part of the brain that registers ____________.

People who have great difficulty in identifying smells are at a higher risk for:

Melody is looking up a phone number in a phone book with tiny print. She will be most likely able to read the number if she looks at the phone book with her ____________ because it has the largest number of ____________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the cells that analyzes neural impulses and transmits them to the ganglion cells?

Colleen and LaVonne are playing darts. Colleen throws her dart into the centre of the target and LaVonne throws his dart into the outer ring. In an analogy to vision, Colleen would have been likely to hit a ____________ and LaVonne would have been likely to hit a ____________.

Our perception of the world is most like:

Reversible figures occur because:

Red, green, and blue are the ____________ primary colours; when they are combined they make ____________.

When Margot was a child, her mother baked bread on Fridays. As an adult, whenever Margot smells bread baking she remembers her mother and feels happy. The mood and memories result from processing of smell information in the:

____________ has the most direct route to the brain because it is the only sense that bypasses the ____________.

Punita has been experimenting with abstract art. When she painted a large black circle on the white canvas, she observed that the circle seemed to have a darker black outline with an intense white ring around it. This effect could be explained by:

The cells whose firing rates are being decreased during the detection of edges are being inhibited by:

Most students have learned in school that there are five senses, but there are actually eight. Why?

Haptic experiences are the result of:

When Petra jumps into a cold lake, she feels as though she is freezing. After a few minutes, she no longer notices the cold and feels comfortable in the water. This is an example of:

When Jodi walks into a dark theatre from the sunshine, her ____________ causes her ____________ to enlarge.

Jodi is looking out the window of a train. She first looks at the people standing by the track watching the train go by. Her gaze then shifts to the houses at a distance from the tracks. As a result of ____________, the people seem to move by ____________ than the houses.

Yuming becomes nauseous while driving down a curvy mountain road. Her uncomfortable feeling is due to:

Some people explain vision by saying that a picture from the retina is sent to the brain. This has some validity in that:

When an artist creates the illusion of depth in a painting, she does so by using: