Exam 4: B: Sensation and Perception

Although she is normally not aware of its existence,Ingrid discovers that she has a blind spot in her vision by closing one eye and focusing on a fixed point.What explains why Ingrid has this blind spot in her vision?

When you enter a dim room,the _______________ widens to let more light in.

The lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect a change half the time is called the ___________.

Miley is concerned that advertisers are using subliminal messages to make her buy their products.Based on the information in your textbook,what should you tell her?

Tom spent the morning taking pictures in the small coves of a local lake.What monocular cue is providing depth perception when the near objects in his photographs appear much larger than those on the opposite shore of the cove?

Which of the following is the most recently identified of the basic taste sensations?

The complex flavours we experience when we bite into a great sandwich are due to:

The _______________ theory states that how we perceive pitch is based on the location along the basilar membrane that sound stimulates.

As Shane stands between the railroad tracks,the rails appear to converge in the distance.This cue to inferring depth and distance is called _______________.

Light,a central player in our visual perception of the world,is a form of _____________.

The skin covering which part of the body would have the LOWEST acuity?

The intensity of the reflected light that reaches our eyes is known as ____________.

Jan can see objects well up close,but they appear blurry from afar.She is probably ____________.

The lens

The sensory receptors in the ear are found in the ____________.

A single eyelash lands on Neil's hand,but because the pressure is __________________,he does not notice it.

Which saying captures the principle emphasized by the Gestalt psychologists?

When she walks into her mother's kitchen,Amelia doesn't know how long she will be able to stay in the room because of the overpowering smell of onions.But when her sister comes home an hour later and complains about the smell,Amelia realizes that she no longer smells the onions at all.This is an example of ________________.

Two or more objects that are close together are viewed as belonging to the same a set.This defines which Gestalt law of organization?

The hammer,anvil,and stirrup are the three