Exam 5: Perception and the Senses

Which of the following best describes the path of stimulation in auditory sensation and perception?

Some pheromones are called primer pheromones because

Which of the following best describes a distinction between sensation and perception?

This sense transduces vibrations in the air into neural signals.

Unlike the binocular depth cues, the monocular depth cues depend greatly on

The collection of fibers in the cochlea that ripples in response to sound vibrations is called the

The perception of temperature is accomplished by these receptors embedded in the skin.

Which of the Gestalt visual illusions best illustrates the relationship between attention to the figure and the ground of an image?

When one's nose is stuffed and molecules cannot contact the epithelium, we may perceive taste, but have no perception of flavor of the food that we're eating.

Like a camera, the eye has this transparent structure to enable sharper focus of light upon the retina.

Odorants are hormone-like chemicals excreted in various ways, and act as "communications," often related to mating, aggression, and parenting.

The photoreceptors that respond well in low light, and to motion, but are not specialized for detailed vision are called

Second pain is more closely related to learning and motivation than first pain because

Brightness constancy and color constancy evolved so that our visual systems could

Endorphins create neural activity at the pain gate with which nociceptive messages must compete for the gate's limited "entry space" to the brain.

Why do we not perceive or notice the blind spot of the retina during the normal course of our lives?

Why is the nose considered the quickest route to the brain of all sense organs?

If you were eagerly expecting a phone call from your new romantic partner, you might find yourself mistaking all sorts of irrelevant sounds for the sound of your ringtone. This is an example of

The process whereby our sense organs receive raw physical or chemical energy from the natural world is called

According to Nava Rubin (2001), ground shapes are "accidental" outcomes of how figures are arranged. As a rule, then, it is a waste of mental resources to pay attention to the shapes of figures.