Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The reason that there are three semicircular canals is so that _________.

Rods and cones are connected to ________.

What are the malleus incus, and stapes?

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

What is the basic function of the outer ear?

In nearsightedness, the image is focused:

When you enter a darkened room (e.g., a movie theater), you will find it hard to see at first, but shortly afterward you will be able to see much better. This phenomenon is referred to as ________ adaptation.

Which pairing of name and property of light is correct?

Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the color, or hue, of light?

A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called ________.

The place in the retina where the axons of all the ganglion cells come together to leave the eye is called the ________.

There is(are) ________ somesthetic sense system(s).

Because of what you have learned about sensory adaptation, you might think that if you stared at a picture for a long period of time, the image you see would eventually fade. This would be the case if not for the tiny vibrations of your eye called ________.

A dichromat ________.

The term just noticeable difference is synonymous with ________ threshold.

What are the five primary tastes?

When people are nearsighted, this most likely means that their eye:

The eardrum is also called the ________.

Which of the following is an example of a monocular cue?

The tendency to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern is known as ________.