Exam 6: Exstintion: Sensation and Perception

Taste buds are located primarily on the tongue,but also in the throat,cheeks,and roof of the mouth.

Sense receptors for vision,hearing,and taste are:

When kittens were exposed to either vertical or horizontal stripes for several months it was found that:

After September 11,2001,many individuals saw a photograph that seemed to show a sinister face in the smoke coming from the World Trade Center.Now that you have read Chapter Six,how might you explain this phenomenon?

According to the doctrine of specific nerve energies,if sound waves could stimulate nerves that end in the visual part of the brain,then we would "see" sounds.

The textbook illustrated the production of negative afterimages by suggesting that readers stare at the center of a green heart,edged in yellow.After 20 seconds,when the gaze was switched to a white paper there was a "change of heart!" What colors did you "see" in the image of the heart on the white paper? How does opponent-process theory explain this finding?

Telepathy is the perception of an event that has not yet happened.

Pain is an indispensable part of our evolutionary heritage,for it alerts us to illness and injury.

Ganglion cells and neurons in the _______________ of the brain respond to simple features of the environment such as light and dark.

Dark adaptation is the process by which visual receptors become maximally sensitive to dim light.

A color-deficient person is usually unable to distinguish red from green and sees the world in shades of:

Special feature-detector cells in the frontal lobe respond maximally to faces.

Binocular cues help us estimate distances up to about _______________ feet.

The motto of the Gestalt psychologists was "The whole equals the sum of its parts."

Our perceptual abilities result from:

_______________ codes rely on the fact that sensory receptors and neurons fire,or are inhibited from firing,only in the presence of specific sorts of stimuli.

It is possible for an amputee to feel a sharp pain from the gangrenous ulcers on the leg that led to the amputation.

In sensory deprivation studies,researchers were interested in what would happen if our senses adapted to most incoming stimuli.Explain the findings and the procedural limitations of the early studies in sensory deprivation.What has been revealed by later research? How do think that you would respond if you spent an hour alone in a "flotation tank"?

Tom Petty has a nasal voice and Bob Dylan has a gravelly voice.What psychological dimension of hearing describes the difference?

In the 1970s,Andrew Weil decided to investigate the claims of Uri Geller,a man who seemed to be able to bend keys and start broken watches without any physical contact with them.What experiences led Weil to accept and then to reject Uri Geller's claims?