Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

According to the opponent-process theory of color vision,the correct pairings of opposite colors are _________________________.

A student takes a drug that distorts perception.He holds up his hand right in front of his face.Horrified he yells,"I have a giant hand!" Most likely the drug interfered with _________________.

When you stare at a picture for a long time,it doesn't fade away because your eye is making tiny eye movements that are called glissades.

People's tendency to perceive a thing a certain way because their previous experiences or expectations influence them is called _______________.

The smallest amount of a particular stimulus required to produce any sensation at all in the person to whom the stimulus is presented is the __________.

Our eyes don't adapt completely to a repeated visual stimulus because ______.

The pathway from the retina to the brain that enables us to see is rods and cones to bipolar cells to ganglion cells to optic nerve.

Maricella always uses less seasoning on her food than do the other members of her family.Her sister has just taken an introductory psychology course and says to Maricella,________

The outermost part of the ear is called the _______________.

The ability to see the world in three dimensions is called ________.

The term photon refers to _______________.

Flavor arises from:

List and explain two binocular cues for depth perception and two monocular cues.Why do we have two different types of cues for depth?

The three types of wavelength referred to in the trichromatic theory of color vision are ________.

Proprioceptors signal ________________.

Bottom-up processing is initiated by ________.

The gate-control theory of pain suggests that ___________.

Which is the best description of the kinesthetic sense?

The amount of light entering the eye is controlled by the ______.

Light is said to have a dual nature,meaning it can be thought of in two different ways.These two ways are _________________.