Exam 6: Exstintion: Sensation and Perception

What did Johannes Müller propose in his doctrine of specific energies? What riddles of sensation does his doctrine fail to explain?

Much of the evidence for ESP comes from:

In a signal detection task,the participant says that he detects a signal when no signal was present.This is called a:

The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye is called:

Our first chapter pointed out the difference between basic psychology and applied psychology.Distinguish between these two terms.Chapter Six notes that consumer products are sometimes designed with little thought for visual principles such as those formulated by the Gestalt psychologists.Describe some ways in which knowledge of Gestalt principles could be applied to the design of consumer products.

Without the soft,funnel-shaped outer ear to collect sounds,it would be difficult for humans to hear.

Hunter dives into a lake and is surprised by the icy-cold temperature.But after swimming for 5 minutes he urges his friends to join him because "The water really isn't that cold at all!" Describe what is happening in terms of Hunter's sensory experience.

When the lens of the eye focuses light on the retina,the result is a/an _______________.

Testing an infant's perception of depth requires ingenuity,but Gibson and Walk were able to design a procedure in order to test infants on a "visual cliff." Explain how they created a "cliff" and describe the results of their research.

Receptors that account for our sense of balance are found in the:

In order to locate the direction a sound is coming from,we depend,in part,on the fact that we have two ears.

Rita's favorite navy-blue sweater is perceived as maintaining its hue whether Rita is outdoors or indoors.Yet the wavelengths of light reaching Rita's eyes do change as the illumination changes.How does this occur?

The _______________ psychologists studied how people organize the world visually into meaningful units and patterns.

If the sensory nerves all use exactly the same form of communication,how,then,do we experience so many different kinds of sensation? Include the work of the German physiologist Johannes Müller in your essay.

The opponent process theory of color vision:

Our sense of vision produces a two-dimensional image on the back of the eye,but we interpret the world in three dimensions due to the process of:

In addition to a subject's sensory capacity,signal detection theory takes into account:

Total color blindness usually occurs due to a genetic variation.

The dimension of auditory experience related to the complexity of a sound wave,that is,to the relative breadth of the range of frequencies,is called:

During a break from his job as a waiter,Barnardo begins to read Hamlet and is so engrossed in the play that he fails to notice the clattering of dishes all around him.This is an example of: