Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World

Mike May, who went blind at age three, had surgery to restore his sight when he reached adulthood. However, although he had functioning eyes, it took him several years to learn how to "see" again. Your text speculates that this is because Mike's __________.

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Question 41

Light enters the interior of the eye through the __________.

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Question 42

__________________ happens when the brain interprets and comprehends information that is received from sensory organs.

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Question 43

Sapphie is flying a kite, and as it flies farther up into the sky it looks like it is getting smaller and smaller. However, Sapphie knows the kite is not shrinking, due to her brain's ability to maintain __________.

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Question 44

Humans may have as many as ___________ different types of receptors for olfaction.

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Question 45

Which of the following are bones from the ear that vibrate and amplify sound waves?

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Question 46

Transduction is the __________.

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Question 47

Which of the following is assumed to be true under signal detection theory?

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Question 48

Tactile receptor cells are called

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Question 49

The sensory receptors for sound are __________.

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Question 50

Which of the following perceptual phenomena may be offered as an explanation for the "moon illusion"?

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Question 51

The optic nerves of the left eye and the optic nerves of the right eye cross in an area called the __________.

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Question 52

The most common forms of color blindness result from deficiencies of __________.

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Question 53

Which of the following is a theory of color vision that can explain color afterimages as well as some instances of color blindness?

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Question 54

Muscles around the ____________ change the eye's shape to allow it to focus light on the retina as appropriate to the distance of the object.

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Question 55

Which of the following describes the "Halle Berry neuron" mentioned in the text?

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Question 56

________________ in the retina convert light into neural impulses.

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Question 57

Endorphin release is most likely used for which of the following scenarios?

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Question 58

The sound of a bell that a research subject can hear in 50 percent of an experiment's trials is that person's __________.

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Question 59

The trichromatic theory of color vision states that all colors humans experience result from a mixture of which three colors of light?

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Mike May, who went blind at age three, had surgery to restore his sight when he reached adulthood. However, although he had functioning eyes, it took him several years to learn how to "see" again. Your text speculates that this is because Mike's __________.

Light enters the interior of the eye through the __________.

__________________ happens when the brain interprets and comprehends information that is received from sensory organs.

Sapphie is flying a kite, and as it flies farther up into the sky it looks like it is getting smaller and smaller. However, Sapphie knows the kite is not shrinking, due to her brain's ability to maintain __________.

Humans may have as many as ___________ different types of receptors for olfaction.

Which of the following are bones from the ear that vibrate and amplify sound waves?

Transduction is the __________.

Which of the following is assumed to be true under signal detection theory?

Tactile receptor cells are called

The sensory receptors for sound are __________.

Which of the following perceptual phenomena may be offered as an explanation for the "moon illusion"?

The optic nerves of the left eye and the optic nerves of the right eye cross in an area called the __________.

The most common forms of color blindness result from deficiencies of __________.

Which of the following is a theory of color vision that can explain color afterimages as well as some instances of color blindness?

Muscles around the ____________ change the eye's shape to allow it to focus light on the retina as appropriate to the distance of the object.

Which of the following describes the "Halle Berry neuron" mentioned in the text?

________________ in the retina convert light into neural impulses.

Endorphin release is most likely used for which of the following scenarios?

The sound of a bell that a research subject can hear in 50 percent of an experiment's trials is that person's __________.

The trichromatic theory of color vision states that all colors humans experience result from a mixture of which three colors of light?

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