Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called ________.

We can see a candle flame at 30 miles on a clear,dark night,and we can hear the tick of a watch 20 feet away in a quiet room.These two facts are examples of ____________.

The tendency to complete figures that are incomplete is known as ___________.

Which of the following phenomena is a function of the distribution of the rods and cones in the retina?

There are seven primary tastes: hot,sour,spicy,sweet,brothy,acid,and bitter.

When light waves enter the eye,they first pass through the _________________.

Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the color,or hue,of light?

Jamie walks from a bright room into a dark room.It will take about ______ minutes for her rods to fully adjust to the dark.

Which of the following are the auditory receptors where sound waves finally become neural impulses?

Which is the newest of the five basic tastes to be discovered?

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

There is (are)_____________ somesthetic sense system(s).

Jamie,a toddler,is making distinctions about various aspects of color in terms of whether it looks red,blue,and so on.In doing so,she is referring to its ________.

The problem with the trichromatic theory of color vision is that it did not adequately explain color blindness and why staring at the reversed American flag produced an afterimage of a flag with the correct colors.

What are the three somesthetic senses and what does each one do?

Contiguity is the tendency to perceive _____________.

The place theory of pitch was suggested by __________.

The fovea is made up of ______.

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

As it gets darker,older folks have a hard time adjusting to the light levels and seeing well.In some cases,this can be treated with ___________________.