Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The audible range of frequencies for human beings is ________ cycles per second.

Which theory of pitch states that in frequencies from about 400 Hz to 4000 Hz, auditory neurons do not fire all at once but in rotation?

If you were to take a sparkler at a July 4^th picnic and "draw" your name in the air, your ability to see the light trail after the initial stimulus is facilitated by:

Which of the following pairs is considered an example of opponent cells?

When light waves enter the eye, they first pass through the ________.

When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she started to hear a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's ________.

Nerve hearing impairment due to problems in the auditory cortex of the brain has been easily corrected with hearing aids.

Which of the following occurs when, because one object appears to be blocking another object, the viewer assumes that the blocked object is farther away?

The tendency to interpret an object as always having the same physical dimensions, regardless of its distance from the viewer, is known as ________.

The visible spectrum refers to the ________.

The pupil is the ________.

Suppose you look at a given figure and decide that, depending on how you look at it, it can be perceived as either an old woman or a young lady. Such a figure would be said to be ________.

________ are the raw data of experience, based on the activation of certain receptors located in the various sensory organs.

The gate-control theory of pain suggests that ________.

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

Billy acted out in class and made poor grades. After a vision screening at the school, Billy's teacher moved him to the front of the class. Billy's academic and social behaviors improved. Billy probably has which vision problem?

It is difficult to distinguish between colors at night because ________.

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called ________.

The vestibular sense governs our awareness of ________.

The pathway from the retina to the brain that enables us to see is rods and cones to bipolar cells to ganglion cells to optic nerve.