Exam 1: Introduction to Perception

You've been hired to design a vision exam that will be administered to every applicants for a driver's license. Right now your state tests only three aspects of vision: photopic visual acuity, depth perception, and color vision. After taking this course, you realize that these tests are inadequate. What four other functions would you recommend be tested? Describe each of the functions, how you'd test them, and explain the importance of each for driving.

Typical experimental approaches to perception use

Which of the following statements challenge(s) the notion of naive realism?

Weber's Law

When using the method of adjustment to measure the difference threshold, the observer

Which of the following statements is an example of orderliness of sensory information?

Dark light in vision is analogous to ______________________ in audition.

In the method of adjustment, who adjusts what?

Which view holds that perceptual experience depends on the operation of the nervous system with no requirement for the involvement of some noncorporeal force?

A psychometric function is a graph showing

If Albert reported that he could see even when it was obvious to others that he was blind, he might well be a victim of

The process by which physical energy is converted into a neural event is called

When using the method of adjustment to estimate a difference threshold, the threshold is given by

The extent to which a method controls or structures stimuli and the reactions to them are called

There are many practical reasons for studying perception. According to the study of perception, which of the following designs is inappropriate for human use?

The advantage(s) of magenetoencephalography as an image technique is (are) its

Single-cell techniques have been recently enhanced by

The idea that a sensation depends on the particular set of nerve fibers stimulated is referred to as

All your sensory systems change as you get older. Write an essay to your elderly aunt, describing the major age-related changes in vision, audition, and taste. Wherever possible, tell your aunt what she might do to compensate for each change or to minimize its effect.

According to the doctrine of specific nerve energies, why does thunder elicit the perception of sound and lightening elicit the perception of light?