Exam 6: Exstintion: Sensation and Perception

The _______________ belonged to a movement that began in Germany and was influential in the 1920s and 1930s.They were among the first to study how people organize the world visually into meaningful units and patterns.

Researchers who have studied color blindness and color deficiency have found that:

The great educator Helen Keller was blind and deaf since her babyhood.She called one of the human senses "the fallen angel of the senses." Which sense was she describing? Cite evidence to support why you agree or disagree with her statement.

Saturation is related to the _______________ of light.

Extrasensory perception and other psychic phenomena had been extensively studied by researchers in the field of:

When we have an interest in something we are especially likely to perceive it.

The process by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information is called sensation.

Ordinarily we need to know not only what something is,but also where it is.Because vision doesn't give us this information directly,we must infer it.Explain how we perform this feat,giving examples of two visual cues that require the use of both eyes.The textbook notes that there are many visual cues that do not depend on having two eyes.Choose and describe five of the seven cues that depend upon one eye.

The psychological dimension of timbre corresponds to the _______________ of the sound wave.

A camera is a passive recorder of the world,but the visual systems of mammals build up pictures of the world by detecting its meaningful features.Integrate the research on the visual system with information that was presented in Chapter Four regarding the thalamus,temporal lobes,and the visual cortex.

The intensity of light corresponds to the amplitude of the light wave.

Of the smells that humans detect:

Scientists agree that there are five senses.

When she goes into the office,Amelia doesn't know how she is going to make it through the whole morning due to an annoying buzz from an overhead light.But when a coworker complains about the noise an hour later,Amelia realizes that she hadn't been aware of the sound.This is called:

There are three basic types of cones in the retina,each of which responds to a different wavelength.

The existence of "face modules" is a passionate topic of debate among neuroscientists.

Bud has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day since he started smoking in 1982.If he quits smoking in 2010,he can expect that it will take at least until the year _______________ before his sense of smell returns to normal.

An important visual skill is the ability to perceive objects as stable or unchanging even though the retinal image changes.This is called:

Research on our sense of smell reveals four basic scents: flowery,spicy,rotten,and musky.

The difference threshold is defined as: