Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

Within the ear, sound waves are translated into neural impulses by the three small bones within the middle ear.

The light-sensitive surface at the back of the eye, that contains rods and cones, is the:

Linear perspective is a monocular cue to depth that utilizes:

The collection of processes used to arrive at a meaningful interpretation of an experience is called perception.

Information that has been detected on the right half of each retina (from the right visual field) is sent to the ____________________ hemisphere.

Explain the role of rods and cones in the transduction of light energy and discuss how human vision would be affected if our eyes had no rods.

Psychophysicists define sensory adaptation as:

Psychologists refer to ____________________ as the fundamental components of an experience, such as patterns of light and dark, bitter or sweet tastes, or changes in temperature.

Based on the opponent-process theory of color vision, you could predict that if an individual stared at a picture of the American flag then shifted his or her eyes to a white surface, the afterimage of the flag would appear to be:

Size constancy refers to our perception that objects:

Psychologists use the term ____________________ to refer to the processing that starts with the actual physical message.

Evidence that some cones are especially sensitive to red light, others to green light, and still others to blue light most directly supports the theory of color vision known as the:

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

The frequency of a sound is measured in:

The receptors for our vestibular sense are located:

The results from research studies investigating the way in which the retina encodes information about the color of a visual stimulus support the theory of color vision known as:

Daphne was sitting talking with some friends when she suddenly left the room to check on her baby.She was sure she had heard little Sandra cry out, but when she checked, Sandra was sleeping peacefully.Based on signal detection theory, the fact that Daphne thought she detected her baby's cry would be considered:

Gertrude put on a new watch this morning and found it uncomfortable because it was so much heavier than her old watch.However, at 3:00 o'clock when someone asks her for the time Gertrude finds she has forgotten she is even wearing the watch.The change in Gertrude's sensitivity to the pressure of the watch illustrates the principle of:

The process of translating environmental energy into neural impulses is ____________________.

Cues about distance that are obtained through comparison of the differing views from each of our eyes are known as ____________________ cues.