Question 1

The ______________ theory explains why we see a yellow afterimage after staring at a blue wall.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The ______________ theory explains why we see...

Question 2

Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because your attention is directed elsewhere is called ___________.

Accepted Answer

A) sensory overload 
B) selective attention 
C) inattentional blindness 
D) divided attention

Question 3

A recognition test requires one to:

Accepted Answer

A) reproduce material when provided a cue. 
B) profit from previous learning to relearn faster. 
C) pick the correct answer from among several possible ones provided. 
D) reproduce material without cues provided.

Question 4

Tom spent the morning taking pictures in the small coves of a local lake.What monocular cue is providing depth perception when the near objects in his photographs appear much larger than those on the opposite shore of the cove?

Accepted Answer

A) height in plane 
B) interposition 
C) linear perspective 
D) relative size

Question 5

Why might food taste bland if your nose was congested due to a cold or allergies?

Accepted Answer

A) Mucus inhibits taste buds. 
B) Some taste buds are located in the nasal epithelium. 
C) Smell works in concert with taste to give us the experience of flavor. 
D) Having to breathe through your mouth inhibits the gustatory process.

Question 6

According to the ________________ theory,the perception of pitch is related to the frequency at which the basilar membrane vibrates.

Accepted Answer

A) frequency 
B) opponent process 
C) place 
D) volley

Question 7

At the Battle of Bunker Hill,an officer supposedly gave the order,"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!" This famous quote could be accurately paraphrased as: Don't fire until you see their ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) corneas 
B) lenses 
C) pupils 
D) sclerae

Question 8

The impression of depth can be created or enhanced in visual art by encouraging the person viewing a drawing to assume that converging lines are actually parallel.This artistic ploy uses the depth cue of _______.

Accepted Answer

A) interposition 
B) elevation 
C) accommodation 
D) linear perspective

Question 9

The lens:

Accepted Answer

A) is the transparent outer membrane of the eye that covers the pupil and iris. 
B) allows one to focus on objects at different distances. 
C) allows light initially to enter the eye. 
D) controls the amount of light entering the eye.

Question 10

A leading theory of phantom limb pain holds that this experience is due to:

Accepted Answer

A) expectations of pain. 
B) leftover nerve endings in the missing body part. 
C) the rewiring of the brain after the loss of input from the lost limb. 
D) the release of inflammatory substances that cause pain.

Question 11

Our visual sensory receptor cells are located in the ___________.

Accepted Answer

A) cornea 
B) fovea 
C) optic nerve 
D) retina

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A) lens,pupil,cornea 
B) lens,cornea,pupil 
C) cornea,lens,pupil 
D) cornea,pupil,lens

Question 13

The physical stimuli for the sense of hearing are called __________ waves.

Accepted Answer

A) alpha 
B) infrared 
C) sound 
D) sine

Question 14

When Bethany steps on her digital scale,a mechanism in it measures the physical pressure pushing down on the scale and converts it into an electrical signal that can be read by the scale.The converting of the physical pressure on the scale caused by Bethany's weight into an electrical signal is similar to the process of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) transduction 
B) bottom-up processing 
C) top-down processing 
D) perception

Question 15

Which of the following accurately describes how we perceive and interpret the visual world?

Accepted Answer

A) We always start with small details and use them to build a recognizable whole. 
B) We always start with our expectations of what we are looking at,which guides how we will perceive it. 
C) Perception involves neither top-down nor bottom-up processing. 
D) Perception is a combination of both top-down and bottom-up processing.

Question 16

Adaptation is the process in which _______.

Accepted Answer

A) receptor cells become linked to one another 
B) receptor sensitivity changes depending upon the intensity of the stimulus 
C) visual acuity improves as one centers an object's light on the fovea 
D) nonspectral colors can be seen

Question 17

An illusion due to misleading cues in stimuli which cause us to create perceptions that are inaccurate or impossible is called a(n)_______ illusion.

Accepted Answer

A) perceptual 
B) induced 
C) physical 
D) stroboscopic

Question 18

"Sensation is to _______ as perception is to _______."

Accepted Answer

A) psychological; physical 
B) gathering; understanding 
C) understanding; gathering 
D) interpreting; detecting

Question 19

The depressed spot in the retina which occupies the center of the visual field in which images are focused MOST sharply is called the:

Accepted Answer

A) foveA 
B) corneA 
C) iris. 
D) optic nerve.

Question 20

When we look at a white house,we can recognize it as a white house by day or night and from any angle.This is due to perceptual _____________.

Accepted Answer

A) closure 
B) constancy 
C) reversibility 
D) coherency

Exam 4: Sensation and Perception