Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The four primary taste sensations are sweet,bitter,sour,and _______.

The term "just noticeable difference" is loosely synonymous with __________.

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 Doppler shift may be helpful for someone trying to _______.

Our sensitivity to different tastes is greatest when food is between the temperatures of 71 degrees and _______ degrees F.

Everyone is asleep but you.You turn down the television set's volume until you can just barely hear it.What method of measuring a sensory threshold are you using?

Perceiving incomplete objects as complete define:

An illusion due to misleading cues in stimuli which cause us to create perceptions that are inaccurate or impossible is called a(n)_______ illusion.

The shape of the lens adjusts in order to _______.

Long-term exposure to sounds with high decibels can result in ___________ deafness.

When we look at a white house,we can recognize it as a white house by day or night and from any angle.This is due to perceptual _______.

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called __________.

The process whereby we receive information from the environment through our receptors is _______.

When Ann went to her doctor,he gave her a hearing test.During the test,the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones.The tones varied only along the loud-soft dimensions (from very loud to very soft).The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she heard a sound.The doctor was testing Ann's _______.

Weber's Law is I/I = K;and values for K are: .02 for weight;.08 for brightness;and .03 for length.If a line is 30" long,what is the minimum change in length before one would notice a difference between the two?

You are told you are going to be shown some words related to food.The experiment then shows you the "pizao" and you perceive the word "pizza." This shows that your perceptions are affected by your___________.

Experiencing MEANINGFUL patterns in the jumble of sensory information received by the brain is _______.

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

The saying,"Birds of a feather flock together" is most closely aligned with the _______ principle of perceptual organization.

If a subject in a perception study were listening to sounds and asked to assign one of a provided set of numbers to match to each sound's intensity,the method being used to measure the psychophysical function is _________.