Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World

Josephine is in the garden picking out flowers of different hues to decorate her living room. She can distinguish between colors primarily due to the functioning of her eyes' ________.

The human body has natural painkillers called ________.

Visual acuity primarily depends on the ________.

Which of the following is true of the papillae at the center of the human tongue?

According to the observation of Singer and Zaki, when one sees a loved one in pain, the ________ and the insula regions of the brain become activated.

________ is a complex emotional and sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

The experience of the flavor of food results from ________.

________ involves parallel lines that come together the farther away they are from the viewer.

A ________ is not reporting a stimulus that is not present.

The ability of the brain to preserve perception of objects in spite of the changes in retinal image when an object changes position or distance from the viewer is known as ________.

Which of the following statements is true about interoception?

The ability to see things in three dimensions and to discriminate what is near from what is far is termed as ________.

Christopher is looking at a lighted sign on which a rapid succession of a row of lit bulbs appears as a "moving" arrow pointing toward a store. This visual effect is called ________.

Robert asks Thomas if he heard a knock at the door, and Thomas says that he did not. Robert, swearing he heard a knock, goes to the door and opens it, but there is no one there. Signal detection researchers would label Thomas's report of no knock as a ________.

Mark, a war veteran, reports that he still feels pain in his missing hand, which was amputated after a battle. Such an experience is referred to as ________.

The structure composed of the axons of ganglion cells from the retina that carry visual information from the eye to the brain is known as the ________.

Our sensitivity diminishes when an object constantly stimulates our senses. This process is known as ________.

A cluster of the neuron cell bodies in the thalamus forms the ________.

The term ________ refers to the part of the inner ear that plays a key role in maintaining a sense of balance.

Which of the following describes Weber's law?