Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

In the retina, the cones are the receptor cells that are:

The ability to process fine detail in vision is:

Gerard is making some chicken soup.His roommate tastes it and tells Gerard it is perfect, but Gerard thinks it needs more salt.He adds just a little salt and thinks that now it tastes fine.However, his roommate tastes it again and tells Gerard that now it is ruined because it has too much salt.Based on research conducted by psychophysicists you should conclude that compared to his roommate, Gerard has:

Margaritte made herself a small book in which the picture on each page was slightly different from the picture on the previous page.She found that the still images appeared to move when she quickly flipped through the pages of the book.The illusion of movement in Margaritte's homemade book is one example of:

The cornea is the:

Our sense of smell is called:

Thor is a computer technician who finds he can tell if a computer's hard drive is moving out of alignment just by listening to the sound the computer makes.Thor's ability to identify problems in this way illustrates:

The relationship that is called ____________________ states that the ability to notice a difference in the magnitude of two stimuli is a constant proportion of the size of the standard stimulus.

The physical stimulus for the perception of touch is:

The monocular depth cue "shading" depends on the fact that:

Brent dives into a swimming pool and instantly feels cold.However, 10 minutes later the pool actually feels comfortably warm.The change in Brent's sensitivity to the temperature of the pool illustrates the principle of:

When we look at the night sky and see the Big Dipper as a complete figure, rather than as individual stars, our perception demonstrates the Gestalt principle of:

The theory of color vision which proposes the human eye has three types of receptors that are sensitive to different ranges of light wavelengths is known as the:

Distinguish between sensation and perception and use appropriate examples to illustrate each of these psychological processes.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic tastes?

According to the Ewald Herings's alternative view of color vision, which is called ____________________ theory, there are receptors in the visual system that respond positively to one color type and negatively to another.

According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, you should predict that cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus that are activated when the eye is stimulated by yellow light will be inhibited when the eye is stimulated by light that is:

Light first passes through the ____________________ before traveling through the lens.

The term used to describe cues about distance that require input from only one eye is:

Levon was amazed at a magician's trick in which a person in a box appeared to be sawed in half.Levon had perceived the head at one end of the box and the feet at the other end of the box, as belonging to a single person, rather than two separate people.This error in Levon's understanding illustrates the Gestalt principle of: