Exam 4: B: Sensation and Perception

Visual information is sent to a part of the thalamus called the ______.

Our visual sensory receptor cells are located in the ___________.

When focusing on a close object that is directly in front of you,eye muscles contract to turn your eyes inward toward the nose.This is called _______________.

A blind spot is a part of the visual field we can't see,where the _____________ connects to the_____________.

Which represents the correct order in which vibrations pass from the outer to inner ear?

In a signal detection task,the participant says that she doesn't detect a signal but a signal was present.This is called a _____________.

__________ processing is conceptually driven and influenced by our beliefs and expectations.

Which of the following is true of the fovea?

___________ was developed to isolate separate measures of sensory experience and the decision process of the person being tested.

______________ refers to the perceptual rule that lines and other objects tend to be continuous,rather than abruptly changing direction.

Which of the following accurately describes how we perceive and interpret the visual world?

A researcher uses a device to press two closely-spaced pins onto various places on participants' bodies.Each time,the research asks the participant to say whether they feel two distinct points or only one.The researcher is testing the _____________ of the skin on the different body parts.

When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye,the image seems to jump from one position to another.This phenomenon illustrates ______________.

The fact that each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of an object we are looking at is known as ______________.

The central portion of the retina is the ____________.

The trichromatic theory states that

Stewart is sitting in his office,which is lighted with a bluish neon light,eating a red apple.Even though the apple is bathed in bluish light,he continues to perceive it as red.This illustrates:

When first exposed to a stimulus,our sensory receptors tend to respond strongly.However,if the stimulus remains unchanged,the activity of the receptors tends to decrease.This process is called ________________.

Visible light with a short wavelength and a high amplitude would be perceived as _____________.

Why are we normally unaware of the blind spot in our vision?