Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World

________ takes into account both stimulus intensity and the decision-making processes people use in detecting a stimulus.

We perceive movement when an image moves across the ________.

Sounds above 20,000 Hz are called ________.

The blind spot of the eye ________.

The structures on the sides of our head, called the ________, collect and funnel sounds into a passage.

In the eye, the main function of the ________ is to convert light energy into neural energy.

Nate is farsighted. Which of the following happens to visual images focused on his retina?

Which of the following parts of the human ear is a bony tube, curled like a snail's shell, and filled with fluid?

The wavelength range of colors visible to humans ranges from 350 nm to 750 nm. Light that we perceive as ________ is at 450 nm.

Which of the following statements is true about the trichromatic color theory?

The olfactory sensory neurons contain hairlike projections called ________, which are similar to the hair cells in the inner ear.

Which of the following statements is true about hair cells?

Identify a true statement about hair cells.

When Gary observes the moon closer to the horizon, it appears to be huge. However, when the moon is further away from the horizon, it appears to shrink in size. Of course, Gary is aware that the size of the moon does not actually change, but the phenomenon being observed is due to ________.

________ is a clear, hard covering that protects the lens of the eye.

A false alarm is ________.

Paul looks out of his office window at the traffic below on a day when pollution in the air is very high. The vehicles that are farther away appear more blurred and bluish to him as a result of the ________ at work.

A small area high in the lining of the nasal cavity contains the ________, which are the receptors for smell.

People from Western cultures often tend to focus on ________ in their visual perceptions of the world.

The point at which strands of the optic nerve from half of each eye cross over to the opposite side of the brain is called ________.