Exam 18: Vision and Perceptual Organization and Interpretation

Although college textbooks frequently cast a trapezoidal image on the retina, students typically perceive the books as rectangular objects. This illustrates the importance of

An area of the brain dedicated to the specialized task of recognizing faces is located in the right ________ lobe.

Accommodation refers to the

When we are exposed to the narrow band of wavelengths visible to the human eye, we see a red object as red because it rejects waves of

If you stared at a house as you walked down a street, the trees in front of the house would appear to be moving

According to the Young-Helmholtz theory, when both red-sensitive and green-sensitive cones are stimulated simultaneously, a person should see

The depth cue that occurs when we watch stable objects at different distances as we are moving is

The philosopher John Locke believed that people

Parapsychology refers to the

The axons of ganglion cells converge to form

Which cells for visual processing are located closest to the back of the retina?

Most color-deficient people will probably

Psychologists who study ESP are called

John Locke is to Immanuel Kant as ________ is to ________.

Jamal claims that his special psychic powers enable him to perceive exactly where the body of a recent murder victim is secretly buried. Jamal is claiming to possess the power of

In the opponent-process theory, the three pairs of processes are

The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates

Which process allows more light to reach the periphery of the retina?

The Young-Helmholtz theory proposes that

The amount of light reflected by an object relative to the amount reflected by surrounding objects is called