Exam 3: C: Sensation and Perception

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

Shadowing is a cue to _______.

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

Elements that share common features such as size,shape,or color are viewed as a set.This defines which Gestalt law of organization?

The inner lining on the back of the eyeball which is sensitive to light is called the _______.

_______ theory was developed to isolate the limits of sensory sensitivity.

The height of a sound wave represents its _______.

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 _________.

Light receptors which see best at night are the _______.

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

An object's elevation is a perspective cue to _______.

The law of brightness constancy suggests that our perception of an object is a result of the _______ of the light from the object divided by the light surrounding it.

The smallest change in stimulation that can be detected 50 percent of the time is called the __________.

"Single-eye vision is to _______ as double-eye vision is to _______."

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper,you will see a greenish image of the object.This phenomenon best supports the:

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 _______.

The wavelength of the light to reach your eyes determines what _______ you see.

The monocular distance cue in which objects closer than the point of visual focus seem to move in the direction opposite to the viewer's moving head,and objects beyond the viewing point move in the same direction as the viewer's head is _______.

When John drives his car at night,he finds that he can barely see traffic and street signs if he looks directly at them.He can increase his visual sensitivity by looking at the signs:

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