Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

The _______________ belonged to a movement that began in Germany and was influential in the 1920s and 1930s.They were among the first to study how people organize the world visually into meaningful units and patterns.

Research on our sense of smell reveals four basic scents: flowery,spicy,rotten,and musky.

According to the doctrine of specific nerve energies,if sound waves could stimulate nerves that end in the visual part of the brain,then we would "see" sounds.

Light travels in the form of waves,and these waves affect three aspects of our visual world.Describe,in detail,the three physical characteristics of light waves,and how each affects a specific psychological dimension of our visual experience.

The difference threshold is

The ability to focus on some parts of the environment and block out others is referred to as

Which of the following is the correct order in which light passes through the structures of the eye?

When adults who have been blind from infancy have their vision restored they are able to make sense of what they see within days.

While riding on a train,David notices that the trees and telephone poles close to the tracks seem to flash by,while the buildings,trees,and mountains that are farther away seem to move by more slowly.This phenomenon is called

Figure-ground is to _______ as dream interpretation is to psychoanalysis.

One reason placebos can reduce pain may be because

Sandra stares for about 30 seconds at a green square.After 30 seconds,she looks at a white sheet of paper.What will she "see"?

Kevin watches as his wife Denise walks toward the house.Even though the retinal image of Denise grows larger as Denise approaches,she does not appear to be growing larger as she moves closer and closer to Kevin.This illustrates

Bud has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day since he started smoking in 2001.If he quits smoking in 2011,he can expect that it will take at least until the year _________ before his sense of smell returns to normal.

The slight difference in lateral separation between two objects as seen by the left eye and the right eye is called

Keegan notices that his favorite 55-cent candy bar seems lighter than usual and so he checks the label and finds that it is lighter by ½ ounce.He decides to buy a larger candy bar instead and doesn't notice that the 99-cent candy bar also is lighter than it used to be by ½ ounce.Keegan's behavior illustrates the fact that

Our tendency to see objects as relatively stable and unchanging despite changing sensory information is called perceptual

Sensation is

Our ________ enable us to make sense of the sensations that we are continually experiencing.

Placebos taken for pain relief have been shown to increase the levels of _____________ in the brain.