Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Simon took his car to a mechanic because he heard a strange sound whenever he turned the steering wheel to the left.The mechanic was able to quickly identify the problem, just by listening to the sound the car made.The mechanic's quick identification of the problem illustrates:

Looking into the theater, Jarrod saw two groups of people separated by several rows of empty seats and an aisle.This demonstrates the Gestalt law of:

Irving Biederman's recognition by components theory helps to explain how people can successfully:

Perception refers to:

The word ____________________ literally means movement.

Of the roughly 126 million receptor cells within each eye, about 120 million are cones and 6 million are rods.

Processing that is controlled by the physical message delivered to the senses is:

Permanent hearing loss can result from prolonged exposure to sounds that are:

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, the primary colors associated with the stimulation of cones on the retina are:

The structure within the cochlea that contains the auditory receptors is called the:

Describe the neural pathways from the eye to the cerebral cortex, noting the role of the thalamus, the superior colliculus, and the feature detectors in the visual cortex.

Describe the process of dark adaptation, including the different roles played by the rods and cones in the process.

An artist is combining pigments to obtain a desired color.The artist is trying to find the right:

Irving Biederman suggested that part of the perceptual process involves recognition by components.This theory is based on the idea that:

Movies are created by rapidly projecting a series of still pictures onto a screen.This creates the illusion that the people and objects that appear on the screen are actually moving.This illusion illustrates:

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

Due to refractory periods, frequency theory has problems when it comes to:

When Adrian was watching an air show, he saw the group of jets flying in formation as a single unit.Adrian's perception during the air show illustrates the Gestalt principle of:

The absolute threshold for a stimulus is the intensity level at which people can successfully detect the presence of the stimulus:

When a person has damage to his or her brain that causes him or her to lose the ability to recognize faces that had been familiar before, the person is said to suffer from: