Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

If an artist were to blend red,green,and blue paints together,the result would look _________.

The tendency to perceive things that look similar as being part of the same group is known as ___________.

Figure-ground relationships concern _________________.

The ability to see 3-D movies is an instance of using motion parallax.

The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same physical dimensions,regardless of its distance from the viewer,is known as _____________.

Bundles of axons from ganglion cells make up the ______.

An olfactory stimulus travels from receptor to _____________.

The longest wavelengths we can see are experienced as ______ colors.

One of your mother's siblings is always known for putting together awful-looking colors when getting dressed.Who is this person more likely to be?

Laverne looks at the tongue of her friend and sees all kinds of bumps on her tongue."Girl," she says,"you sure have a lot of _____________."

The place theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the __________.

Substance P is related to the sense of balance.

What is the pupil of the eye?

A person with red-green color blindness will see the world in _____________.

The distance cue in which two parallel lines extend into the distance and seem to come together at one point is called ______.

An alien from outer space was just captured.Scientists take turns examining the creature.At a press conference,one of the scientists reports that the alien can hear frequencies between 10,000 and 30,000 Hz.How does the alien's ability to detect sound compare to a human being's ability?

What are the five primary tastes?

Suppose Maria is painting while the sun is setting;once she notices that the room is getting darker,she decides to call it quits for the day.This example illustrates the role of ________.

The wavelength of the light reaching your eyes determines in part what ______ you see.

Suppose your town is located in a valley.Obviously,you'll realize that the size of your town doesn't change regardless of whether you look at it up-close or from a hillto