Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Each eye sees more of the world on its own side of the visual field.A combination of the views from the two eyes creates the depth cue of

There are several steps involved in a person being able to feel a touch on their skin and experience it as pleasurable.Which of the following displays these steps in the correct order?

Which of the following taste sensations was most recently discovered?

People see the figure ( )as an oval rather than two separate curving lines.Which Gestalt principle explains this outcome?

Sadafa loves Indian food,but is careful about what he eats because it hurts his tongue when he eats very spicy food.Sadafa most likely is

Which would be the worst tip for someone who is experiencing pain after a surgery?

Describe the two types of pain receptors and the types of pain that they help people perceive.Then,describe a type of pain and determine which type of pain receptor would carry it.

Distinguish between bottom-up and top-down processing.

Which of the following phrases would be a good description of bottom-up processing?

Avi broke his ankle skiing.At first,he felt a sharp and intense pain.The next day,the sharp pain was gone,but his ankle throbbed almost all the time.The sharp,immediate pain was due to ________;the later,throbbing pain was due to ________.

Taj wants to create a robot that has sensation but not perception.The robot should

Because of which of the following can you see different colors?

Hamdi wakes up in the middle of the night and tries to see the clock in the dim light.The numbers are very faint.He will more likely be able to read the numbers if he looks at the clock with his ________ because it has the largest number of ________.

With regard to sensation,signal detection theory accounts for a person's

Gustation involves ________ taste buds,all located on the ________.

________ generate action potentials that are sent to the brain by the optic nerve.

Gervase is staring at the blades of his ceiling fan.When he turns off the fan,he is surprised that the blades appear to be rotating in the opposite direction.To reassure Gervase that he is not hallucinating,you could tell him about

Reversible figures occur because

According to ________ we perceive a car as a whole unit rather than perceiving it as a group of distinct entities (such as metal,tires,glass,door handles,hubcaps,and fenders).

Which of the following statements best describes the path of visual information in the brain?