Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

When you enter a darkened room (e.g. ,a movie theatre)you will find it hard to see at first but shortly afterward you will be able to see much better.This phenomenon is referred to as:

Which is the best description of the skin senses?

Erin has learned to create a "truly red" light by focusing on only one wavelength of the visible spectrum.She is most likely to be concerned with which property of light?

When you first put your hat on,you can feel it quite easily,but after a while,you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone.What happens?

The tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping is known as ___________.

The average person's skin is about ________.

The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste,touch,smell,and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called __________________.

Endorphins are the neural transmitters that _____________.

You will more than likely see "XXX XXX XXX" as three groups of "X" rather than one group of nine "X"s.This example illustrates which of the following Gestalt Laws?

All of the following are true about color blindness except:

How is the way the sense of taste works similar to the way the sense of smell works?

Pitch is to frequency as ________.

What is the correct order of the parts of the eye from where light enters to where it causes a neural response to be sent up to the brain?

The aspect of color that corresponds to names such as red,green,and blue is ______.

______ is the mental process of making meaning of sensory information.

The fact that,when we look at an object,each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of the object is known as ______.

______ are the raw data of experience,based on the activation of certain receptors located in the various sensory organs.

In people who have been blind since birth and who then have had their sight restored,depth perception _____________.

Which part of the eye is a muscle that regulates the size of the pupil?

Nerve hearing impairment can be best treated with _______________.