Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

A method for assessing the accuracy of judgments or decisions under uncertain conditions is called ________ theory. This method assesses a person's "hits" and "rejections" are compared to their "misses" and "false alarms."

Who actually found three types of cones in the retina?

Taste buds are contained in the tongue's ________.

Which of the following tastes is NOT directly related to taste buds?

A person who is blind in one eye can use all of the visual cues except ________.

What is the approximate life expectancy of individual taste receptor cells?

The pitch of a sound (from a low bass to a high shriek) is related to the amplitude of the sound waves that reach the eardrum.

Perrone's result, using a rigid box moving away from the observer, suggests that the contraction of the retinal image causes the observer to perceive that the box was moving away and getting smaller. The perception of the box getting smaller SEEMS to violate which of the following?

The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called ________.

When we describe someone's eyes as blue, technically we are referring to his or her blue ________.

Contiguity is the tendency to perceive ________.

The relation between the amount of physical energy in a stimulus and the sensory experience of that stimulus is studied by:

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensations at all in a person is the ________.

Rods and cones are found in the ________.

The depth cue in which faraway objects appear to be hazy and have a blurred outline is called ________.

The idea that the eye contains separate receptors for red, green, and blue is known as the ________ theory.

If perceptual information aiding in depth perception must be drawn simultaneously from both eyes, it is referred to as ________.

The problem with the trichromatic theory of color vision is that it did not adequately explain color blindness and why staring at the reversed American flag produced an afterimage of a flag with the correct colors.

Substance P is related to the sense of balance.

A young man enters a completely darkened room and lights a candle. Which of the following sequences best represents the candle's light as it enters his eye?