Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

According to the gate-control theory of pain, the release of endorphins by the brain may be responsible for:

Binocular depth cues:

The Gestalt law of common fate states that visual elements:

Many animals release chemicals that cause highly specific reactions when detected by other members of the species.The chemicals are called:

According to psychologists, our sense of balance and movement is called:

To increase profits, the cereal company wants to reduce the amount of raisins in each cup of cereal, but they don't want consumers to notice the change.To know how many raisins they can remove, they first need to obtain an estimate of the:

According to psychologists, the sense of ____________________ is the result of the vestibular system.

The somatosensory cortex is located in the:

Stimulating sensory receptors in the skin causes neural signals to be sent to the:

An orchestral conductor has asked the timpani player to create a louder sound.In terms of amplitude, the conductor is asking the timpanist to produce a higher level of:

Imagine that the human eye only had rods, and no cones.Based on what is known about the differing functions of the visual receptors, you should predict that under these conditions, people would have:

Anastasia replaced all the 60-watt light bulbs in her house with 40-watt light bulbs.She claims that the 40-watt bulbs give off the same amount of light, and yet her husband Boris claims that the 40-watt bulbs give off far less light.Based on research conducted by psychophysicists, you should conclude that compared to Anastasia, Boris has:

Jordie went to have his hearing tested.Some of the sounds that were presented during the test were so faint that he was unable to detect them.These faint sounds would fall below Jordie's:

If plastic conducts heat less efficiently than wood does, when we touch something made from plastic we would typically perceive:

The wavelength of the light that is reflected from an object:

Compared to the low notes on a piano, the high notes always produce sound waves that have:

Because the photoreceptors are distributed unevenly across the retina, you should expect that your night vision will be best when the image of an object:

Distinguish between the body senses of movement and balance, and discuss the operation and function of each of these two senses.

At the rock concert she attended over the weekend, Veronica noticed that when the red and green spotlights overlapped they seemed to change to a yellow spotlight.This can be explained using the principles of:

In paintings, artists can often give the impression of depth by drawing some objects so they cast shadows on others.This is the monocular depth cue: