Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

What structure in your eye is most like the film in a camera?

When Ann went to her doctor,he gave her a hearing test.During the test,the doctor struck several tuning forks,each of which vibrated at a distinct pitch,and asked her to choose two tones that sounded almost the same in pitch.The doctor was testing Ann's __________.

If a single line is projected onto the same parts of both retinas,the line will be seen clearly in a process called _______.

The eyes convert light energy into neural responses that we experience as sight.The conversion of light energy into sight is done by receptor cells in the _______.

As an object gets closer,its visual angle becomes _______,and its retinal image gets ________.

The structures in the inner ear that are particularly sensitive to body rotation are the __________.

If a subject in a perception study were listening to sounds and asked to assign a number that is proportional to each sound's intensity,the method being used to measure the psychophysical function is ________.

Which type of information helps with depth perception?

The problem of subjects knowing too much about the sequencing of intensities during sensation studies is overcome by the method of _______.

Sensation is _______.

The vestibular sense governs our awareness of __________.

The opponent-process theory of color vision contends that color vision is a result of:

When you stand to the side of a window frame,it casts a trapezoidal (nonrectangular)image on your retina.It still seems rectangular to you,though,because of _______.

The vividness or richness of a hue is known as its:

People with normal vision will perceive a pyramid whether they see the object from the side,top,or any other angle as long as the object is,in fact,a pyramid.This is the law of _______.

Whether you are standing right next to it or a mile away from it,you know a tree is the same size because of _______.

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 physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called __________ waves.

The hammer,anvil,and stirrup are the _______.