Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

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 pitch of a sound (from a low bass to a high shriek)is related to the amplitude of the sound waves that reach the eardrum.

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

Suppose you look at a given figure and decide that,depending on how you look at it,it can be perceived as either an old woman or a young lady.Such a figure would be said to be ________.

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?

Which skin receptors respond only to pressure?

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

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 ________.

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

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

The visible spectrum refers to the ________.

John Russell has color blindness.He is most likely to have difficulty doing which of the following?

The minimum intensity of physical stimulation required to produce any sensation at all in a person is the just noticeable threshold.

The bone that is attached to the eardrum is called the ________;the bone that is connected to the oval window is called the ________.

According to the opponent-process theory,if you stare at a red star for awhile (e.g. ,60 seconds),and then look at a plain sheet of white paper,you will see an afterimage of the star in which hue?

A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight,even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight.This form of perceptual constancy is called _________.

Larry has been told by his doctor that he is experiencing ________ due to hair cells that were destroyed as a result of loud sounds.

A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio.He says that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate unneeded and undesired wavelengths.What term describes the characteristic of sound waves that the sound mixer is now able to alter?

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

Laverne goes to a movie theater to watch her favorite movie.About halfway through the movie she becomes aware of an overpowering hunger for popcorn.What she doesn't realize is that throughout the first part of the movie,a message saying "Eat Popcorn!" was repeatedly flashed on the screen at a speed too fast for her to be consciously aware of it.If her desire for popcorn is due to that message,she is responding to ________.