Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

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.

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. In this experiment, Jason's ____________ is being measured.

Consider the two following patterns: >>>>><<<<< ; +++++*****. The ten characters in the first pattern are perceived as a single figure, while the ten characters in the second pattern are perceived as two groups of five characters each. Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

Sharita looks at her professor and then shifts her gaze to the screen behind her professor. As she does this her lens is becoming ____________ through the process of ____________.

The major problem to be explained in depth perception is that:

When a ballerina pirouettes, images of the room move rapidly across her retina. She does not perceive the room as moving while she is spinning because:

Object agnosia provides support for the idea that there are two separate streams of analysis of visual information because it shows that:

Yellow is considered to be one of the primary colours, but there is no cone specialized to respond to yellow light. When we see yellow it is because the light is stimulating:

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

An Ames room is constructed so that the two back corners seem to be equidistant from the front of the room, when the right corner is actually much farther away. Someone first sits in the left corner and then sits in the right corner. To an observer in the front of the room, that person will seem ____________ when s/he is sitting in the right corner.

Sensitive areas, such as the face, have larger areas of the primary somatosensory cortex devoted to them. One reason that this might be the case is that greater sensitivity results from:

An evolutionary view of the perception of human emotions would hold that in societies with strict power hierarchies, people lower in the hierarchy will read the emotions of people higher in status ____________ than they will read the emotions of people at their own level.

Some animals have ears that they can rotate in different directions. These animals have superior perception of:

As you watch the rectangle of a paper flag being turned around its pole, you always see the shape of the flag as being rectangular. Yet the image of the flag changes shape at the retina as it rotates. Why do you not see the shape as changing?

For which of the following cases will the most accurate facial recognition occur?

Kwamie has broken his wrist. His friend, Sam, has taken him to the ER. While they are waiting, Sam starts an argument with Kwamie about the student council election. While they are arguing, Kwamie is feeling very little pain. This is most likely because:

We cannot see a shade of bluish yellow because:

Sensory qualities are coded by only a few different types of receptors, each of which responds to a broad range of stimuli. This is called:

You are standing at the intersection of two perpendicular roads. You see one road running north-south and another road running east-west. You do not see one road running north and then turning east and another road running east then turning north. Which Gestalt principle accounts for what you do and do not see?

After leaving the thalamus, axons projecting from tactile sensory neurons project to the ____________ in the ____________ lobe.