Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

The relation between the amount of physical energy in a stimulus and the sensory experience of that stimulus is studied by:

If perceptual information aiding in depth perception must be drawn simultaneously from both eyes,it is referred to as _______.

Weber's law states that a just noticeable change in a stimulus magnitude is ________ the original stimulus magnitude.

When Ann went to her doctor,he gave her a hearing test.During the test,the doctor struck several tuning forks,each of which vibrated at a distinct pitch,and asked her to choose two tones that sounded almost the same in pitch.The doctor was testing Ann's __________.

When we look at a white house,we can recognize it as a white house by day or by night and from any angle.This is due to perceptual _______.

Which of the following produces binocular disparity?

Light enters the eye through the _______.

People with normal vision will perceive a pyramid whether they see the object from the side,top,or any other angle as long as the object is,in fact,a pyramid.This is the law of _______.

When Ann went to her doctor,he gave her a hearing test.During the test,the doctor struck several tuning forks,each of which was a distinct pitch,and asked her to choose two tones that sounded almost the same in pitch.The doctor was testing Ann's _______.

As an object gets closer,its visual angle becomes _______ and its retinal image gets ________.

When we look at objects fairly close to us,our eyes tend to turn slightly inward toward each other.This process is called _______.

_______ studies the relationship between physical energies and psychological experiences.

The distance cue in which objects at greater distances appear to be smoother is __________.

An increase in the frequency of sound waves will correspond most directly to an increase in _______.

The physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called __________ waves.

"Single-eye vision is to _______ as double-eye vision is to _______."

Hertz is a unit of measurement of __________.

The difference between the separate images each eye receives is known as __________.

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the __________.

The monocular distance cue in which objects closer than the point of visual focus seem to move in the direction opposite to the viewer's moving head,and objects beyond the viewing point move in the same direction as the viewer's head is _______.