Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Scotty makes dinner by looking at his ingredients and then combining them into a meal.Scotty is cooking in a ________ manner.

When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater,her ________ cause(s)her ________ to enlarge to let in more light.

After transduction,the neural signals of vision,hearing,taste,and touch all pass through the

The sense organs' detection of external physical stimuli is called ________,whereas further processing,organizing,and interpreting of those stimuli in the brain is called ________.

There are several steps involved in the process of transforming a sound into a signal that can be understood by the brain.Which of the following displays these steps in the correct order?

According to trichromatic color theory,there is no cone specialized to respond to yellow light.When we see yellow,it is because the light is stimulating the

The process of encoding low frequencies of sound is called ________ coding.

When sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that the brain can understand,this is called

What is the role of hair cells in hearing? Explain how hair cells are crucial to the process of hearing.

Encharta is sitting outside,looking at her beautiful garden.As the sun goes down,the colors become dull and finally the colors become shades of gray.This change happens because the

How do the light waves reflected by a blue object differ from those reflected by a red object?

Sameer is mixing paint.He starts with a very dark green paint and then gradually adds white paint.Sameer is ________ of the green paint.

Ayelet is trying to draw a picture of two people down the street from each other.No matter how carefully she tries to draw them both the same size,the person who is supposed to be farther away appears much taller than the nearer person.You could explain that the depth cue of ________ size means that she will need to draw a ________ image of the person who is supposed to be farther away.

Daniel is standing on the outside platform of the train station.He looks down the tracks,hoping to see his train.As the tracks get farther from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to ________,providing the depth cue of ________.

The primary auditory cortex is located in which brain lobe?