Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Which of the following characteristics is NOT a basic quality of taste?

In smell,_____ are chemicals released by animals that cause physiological and behavioral effects on other members of the same species.

What is the primary purpose of cells in the olfactory bulb?

The process by which a sound is transformed into a neural signal involves which of the following sequences of transformations?

Regarding smell,which of the following statements is probably most accurate?

If you look at a square made up of alternating red and blue stripes for several minutes,then look immediately at a blank white sheet of paper,you will see a square with alternating green and yellow stripes.This effect results from pairs of _____ that work _____.

In this condition,people are unable to distinguish one face from another,but they can recognize other objects.

Because the brain cannot process physical stimuli directly,it must convert the stimuli into chemical and electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain.This process is known as:

An Ames room is constructed so that the two back corners seem to be equidistant from the front of the room,when the right corner is actually much farther away.Someone first sits in the left corner and then sits in the right corner.To an observer in the front of the room,that person will seem _____ when she or he is sitting in the right corner.

When you are on a small bluff,the ocean sand looks smooth and uniform,but when you sit down on the sand you can see all the bumps and colors.This difference is an example of which depth cue?

What brain area is activated when people observe fearful facial expressions?

The illusion of the Ames room works because:

The minimum amount of change required for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli is referred to as the:

When Margot was a child,her mother baked bread on Fridays.As an adult,whenever Margot smells bread baking she remembers her mother and feels happy.The mood and memories result from the processing of smell information in the:

If you look at a sheet of white paper in a dim room and then look at it in bright sunlight,the paper will reflect more light to the eye when you are outside than inside.Yet we see the paper as having the same lightness in both situations.Why?

After leaving the thalamus,axons projecting from tactile sensory neurons project to the _____ in the _____ lobe.

Master chefs are likely to have _____ than other people.

According to your text,the fact that we find visual illusions so compelling suggests that the mechanisms of perceptual constancy are:

Leonardo da Vinci identified many monocular (pictorial)depth cues,including _____,in which a near object blocks an object that is farther away.

People stop responding to unchanging stimuli because: