Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Light is focused on the retina by the ________.

An alien from outer space was just captured. Scientists take turns examining the creature. At a press conference, one of the scientists reports that the alien can hear frequencies between 10,000 and 30,000 Hz. How does the alien's ability to detect sound compare to a human being's ability?

Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called ________.

Sensation is ________.

What sensations are detected by the skin?

Which of the following organizations use the figure-ground effect as part of their clothing?

The _______ states that we see an object's size as constant even if the object's distance from us changes.

One problem with Vicary's study of subliminal perception is that it ________.

Which of the following choices is NOT a monocular cue that painters can incorporate into their work to convey information about the relative distances of objects?

The kinesthetic senses are concerned with ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are all located in the ________.

Each retina of the eye has about ________ million rods.

A person can have between ________ taste buds in his or her mouth.

In people who have been blind since birth and who then have had their sight restored, depth perception ________.

________ are receptors that are best for seeing details.

The shortest wavelengths that we can see are experienced as ________ colors.

The process by which rods and cones become more sensitive to light in response to lowered levels of illumination is called ________.

If a person hears a tone of 300 Hz, three groups of neurons take turns sending the message to the brain-the first group for the first 100 Hz, the second group for the next 100 Hz, and a third for the next 100 Hz. This principle is known as the ________.

When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone. What happens?