Exam 4: D: Sensation and Perception

Using a cell phone while driving may result in your failure to perceive a car pulling out of a driveway that is in plain view but not the focus of your attention,a situation referred to as __________.

The "seat of your pants phenomenon" and the "cocktail party effect" are excellent examples of the process of ___________.

The purported ability to perceive events or gain information in ways that appear unaffected by distance or normal physical barriers is called psychokinesis.

Terry suffered a blow to the head that tore his olfactory nerve,which caused Terry to develop a condition known as dysosmia.

The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is the Gestalt organizing principle of ___________.

The purported ability to predict future events is called __________.

Much of the apparent depth of a good movie comes from the relative motion captured by the camera,a feature also known as ___________.

The visual receptors for color and bright light are the rods,while the cones are the visual receptors for dim light and produce only black and white sensations.

Eyewitnesses sometimes identify as a culprit someone they have seen in another situation or context,which is referred to as __________.

If you do not hear the traffic outside your psychology class because you are engrossed in the lecture,then you are exhibiting selective attention.

Your child drew a picture of his school playground on a large sheet of white paper.At the top of this page,he or she drew the school building,while the playground equipment,including seesaws and swings,were drawn toward the bottom of the picture.There is a tree near the entrance to the school.The trunk of this tree is blocking a portion of the windows by the main doorway to the school.There is a road beginning at the bottom of the page whose parallel lines grow closer together as the road passes the school.The children that your child drew near the bottom of the page appear larger than the children playing nearer the school.These "larger" children also are drawn with more detail,while the faces of the children playing closer to the school are blurry.Describe the pictorial cues that this "artist" used to achieve depth.

Pain messages are carried by small nerve fibers in the warning system and by large nerve fibers in the reminding system.

You are a juror in a robbery case.You are listening to the testimony of two eyewitnesses,one was robbed at gun-point on the street at night and one who observed the robbery from a distance.Describe the factors that could affect the accuracy of these eyewitness perceptions.

When one can alternately see both a wine glass and then two faces within the same image,this illustrates the reversibility of __________ images.

According to psychologist Richard Nisbett and his colleagues,people from different cultures do perceive the world differently.Describe the different ways in which European Americans and Asians perceive the world differently and include the results of research studies conducted on this subject.

The somesthetic sense that results from the receptors in the muscles and joints responding to movement is the __________ sense.

The stapes is attached to a membrane on the cochlea called the __________.

When our attention is narrowly focused,we may experience inattentional blindness.

Discuss how the field of parapsychology has been affected by fraud,poorly designed experiments,inconsistency in results,and chance occurrences,or coincidence; and explain what it would take to scientifically demonstrate the existence of ESP?

With regard to eyewitness testimony,a victim's testimony is usually more accurate than individuals who just observed the event occurring.