Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

In vision, the portion of the retina that, when stimulated, causes the activity of higher order neurons to change is the:

Perceptual illusions are:

The amplitude of sound is measured in:

Jennifer turned the thermostat up from 68 degrees to 70 degrees, however, she still feels that it is cold and wants to turn it up even higher.Jennifer's roommate claims it is now too hot and she wants to turn the thermostat back down.Based on research conducted by psychophysicists, you should conclude that compared to her roommate, Jennifer has:

Frequency theory provides the best explanation for why older people often have difficulty hearing high-pitched sounds.

The brain can use the degree that the two eyes turn inward, called ____________________, to derive information about depth.

The monocular depth cue of linear perspective aids perception because:

Varying a sound's arrival time at each ear will change:

Lindsay is having trouble focusing on fine details.She is having problems of:

According to psychologists, in humans, the vestibular sense is responsible for:

In describing the psychological properties of sound, decibels provide a measure of the:

The receptor cells in the retina that enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light are called ____________________.

Hering's opponent-process theory suggests that visual receptors are linked in pairs.The opposing pairs that he suggested were:

The fact that most people perceive individual elements that share common features or properties as being part of a group is consistent with the Gestalt law of ____________________.

Top-down processing:

The smallest difference in the magnitude of two stimuli that an observer can reliably detect is called the:

Based on the research conducted by Hubel and Wiesel, you should infer that when an individual looks at a curved line and then looks at a straight line, he or she will probably activate different:

The central part of the retina where the cones are concentrated is called the:

The receptor cells for taste are located in folds on bumps on the tongue called:

In paintings, artists can often give the impression of depth by drawing objects such as train tracks as pairs of converging lines.The impression of depth originates due to the monocular depth cue of: