Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World

Colin, who has been arguing with his co-workers all day, thinks the movie he saw this evening was a lot more violent than his wife thought it was. Colin's evaluation of the movie was probably influenced by his __________.

Neurons that fire when images move, but not when the eye moves, are called _________.

We are said to be experiencing _________________ when physical energy from our environment comes into contact with our sense organs.

The "mosquito ring tone" is reported to be __________.

A car is partially obstructing Cara's view of the garage and therefore Cara knows the car is in front of the garage. This cue to depth is known as __________.

The ______________ adjusts the pupil to control the amount of light entering the eye.

Which of the following is likely dependent upon experience to be perceived visually correctly?

Hubbard and Ramachandran (2005) showed that synesthesia involving the cross-over processing of colors and numbers may be neurologically based in the_____________ lobes.

Christophe is looking at a lighted sign on which a rapid succession of lit bulbs appears to be an arrow in motion pointing to a store. This visual effect is called __________.

Information from taste cells is projected to the __________.

The right auditory cortex is more active than the left auditory cortex in processing __________.

Which of the following is true with respect to information presented in the left visual field? It is processed __________.

Lutman and Spencer (1991) and others have shown that factory workers with long-term exposure to sounds of __________ dB will likely sustain hearing loss over time.

Which of the following types of psychologists would posit that one reason women have a keener sense of smell than do men is to allow pregnant women to avoid ingesting harmful substances, thereby increasing the chance of leaving descendants?

Research has shown that experienced violinists have larger ________________ of brain regions related to hand and finger movements.

Acupuncture should successfully alleviate pain according to which of the following theories?

Matilda did not hear the phone ringing when her girlfriend called. Signal detection theorists would call this a __________.

Lincoln is pretty sure he sees his sister far off in the crowd. When he gets closer, he sees her familiar hair style and unmistakable nose, and knows it is she. This type of visual perception is called __________.

Making Connections in Sensation and Perception The Mü ller-Lyer illusion, which involves a visual illusion based on the perception of the angles and edges of a building, is not usually experienced by people who grow up and live in regions where round huts are predominant. This suggests that which of the following may be influencing the Mü ller-Lyer illusion?

Research has shown that people from Western cultures tend to focus on _______________ in their visual perceptions of the world.