Exam 14: Perception and Sensory Processing

________________ is the part of the ear where sound is transduced into neural impulses; consists of cochlea and semicircular canals.

________________ is the physical stimuli that produce our sensory experience of sound.

_________________ is the tendency to perceive objects, especially familiar objects, as constant and unchanging despite changes in sensory.

________________ is a binocular cue that relies on the degree to which muscles rotate the eyes to focus on an object; the less convergence, the farther away the object appears to be.

According to ________________ theory, the basilar membrane vibrates at the same frequency as the sound wave, thereby enabling low-frequency sound to be transmitted to the brain.

_______________ is the technical term for our sense of taste.

________________ is the use of visual cues (either monocular or binocular) to perceive the distance or three-dimensional characteristics of objects.

Stereograms use the binocular depth cue of _______________.

_________________ is the specialized sensory receptors for taste that are located on the tongue and inside the mouth and the throat.

_______________ is the technical name for the sense of location and position of body parts in relation to one another.

_________________ is the distinctive quality of a sound, determined by the complexity of sound waves.

____________ is the term for the investigation of claims of various paranormal phenomena.

___________________ is an illusion of movement that results when two, separate, carefully timed flashing lights are perceived as one light moving back and forth.

__________ is the thick nerve that exits from the back of the eye and carries visual information to the visual cortex in the brain.

________________ is the influence of prior assumptions and expectations on perceptual interpretations.

___________________ is based on the idea that sensory information can be detected by some means other than through the normal processes of sensation.

________________ is the perception of an object as maintaining the same size despite changing images on the retina.

__________________ is the perception that the brightness of an object remains the same even though the lighting conditions change.

_________________ refers to the fact that when we view a scene, we automatically separate the elements of that scene into the feature that clearly stands out and its less distinct background.

_____________ is the binocular cue that relies on the fact that our eyes are set a couple of inches apart and thus a slightly different image of an object is cast on the retina of each eye.