Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Which of the following is a characteristic of both light waves and sound waves?

The effects of the Ames Room are DUE primarily to distortions in:

Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become ________.

The lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50 percent of the time the stimulation is present is called the ________ threshold.

The wavelength of the light to reach your eyes determines what ________ you see.

Cells that are triggered by light, vibrations, sounds, touch, or chemical substances are called ________.

Decibels are used to measure ________.

Even though a motion picture actually consists of a series of still frames, we perceive them conveying continuous movement. This is an example of ________.

Our ________ enable us to make sense of the sensations that we are continually experiencing.

An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to ________.

Light is said to have a dual nature, meaning it can be thought of in two different ways. These two ways are ________.

The impression of depth can be created or enhanced in visual art by encouraging the person viewing a drawing to assume that converging lines are actually parallel. This artistic ploy uses the depth cue of ________.

The trichromatic receptor theory explains how different color receptors in the eye combine to produce color vision. However, this theory does NOT explain:

Which type of receptor cell is associated with seeing colors?

Dr. Delmar wants to determine how loud a certain noise must be in order for it to be heard from a distance of 50 feet. Her question involves the concept of:

Similarity is the tendency to perceive ________.

Jamie walks from a bright room into a dark room. It will take about ________ minutes for her rods to fully adjust to the dark.

Because the eyes are separated by several centimeters, each eye's view of an object is different from the other's. This is called ________disparity.

The differences between the separate images each eye receives are known as ________.

Weber's Law states that a just noticeable change in a stimulus magnitude is ________ the original stimulus magnitude.