Exam 3: Sensation and Perception

The amount of light let into the eye is controlled by the iris.

Bottom-up processing is initiated by ________.

Which component of the eye contains the visual receptors?

Which of the following pairs is considered to be an example of opponent cells?

The shortest wavelengths that we can see are experienced as ______ colors.

A person can have between ________ taste buds in his or her mouth.

Which theory proposes that below 1,000 Hz,auditory neurons do not fire all at once but in rotation?

Light has two natures and can be thought of as both a wave and a particle.

Bundles of axons from ganglion cells make up the ________.

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 longest wavelengths we can see are experienced as ______ colors.

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

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 ________.

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 ________.

Pain sensations in the skin,muscles,tendons,and joints that are carried on large nerve fibers are called ________.

Which of the following properties of sound is the most similar to the brightness of light?

Nerve hearing impairment can be best treated with ________.

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.

Ernst Weber provided a formulation that is used to determine the ________.

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