Exam 3: C: Sensation and Perception

Some pictures are intentionally designed so that one can see two different images in the same picture.This is called ______.

The physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called _______ waves.

Which type of information helps with depth perception?

The senses that monitor our equilibrium and awareness of body position in space are the __________ senses.

Which of the following is NOT a measure of threshold?

Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become _______.

Our tendency to see objects as relatively stable and unchanging despite changing sensory information is called perceptual __________.

While riding on a train,David notices that the trees and telephone poles close to the tracks seem to flash by,while the buildings,trees,and mountains that are farther away seem to move by more slowly.This phenomenon is called_____________.

Detecting "environmental stimulation" is one way to define ______.

If a researcher wanted to know how loudly a person must speak in order to be heard above the noise of two other simultaneous conversations,the researcher would likely measure the ________ .

The Doppler shift may be helpful for someone trying to _______.

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

An increase in the frequency of sound waves will correspond most directly to an increase in _______.

Which of the following is an example of a monocular cue?

The place in the retina where the axons of all the ganglion cells come together to leave the eye is called the _______.

The boundary between the middle and inner ear is the:

Research on the sense of touch has found that if two objects touch the skin very close to each other,they will be perceived as only one object.The smallest distance between the two objects which can still be felt as two distinct objects is the ______________________.

The first location to receive smell information in the brain is the __________.

Hearing begins when sound waves bump against the _______.

The process by which rods and cones become more sensitive to light in response to lowered levels of illumination is called _______.