Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

The Young-Helmholtz theory of color vision assumes that:

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper,you will see a greenish image of the object.This phenomenon best supports the:

The ____________ is the perceptual experience of the wave frequency of a sound.

We are sensitive to _________ basic tastes.

Light enters the eye through the _______.

If a researcher wanted to know how loudly a person must speak in order to be heard above the noise of two other simultaneous conversations,the researcher would likely measure the ________.

Kevin watches as his wife Denise walks toward the house.Even though Denise fills more and more of Kevin's visual field as she approaches,she does not appear to be growing larger as she moves closer to Kevin.This illustrates ______________.

When measuring absolute threshold,reliable detection is said to occur when a person can detect a signal 99 percent of the time.

The perceptual experience of flavor originates from:

The inner lining on the back of the eyeball which is sensitive to light is called the _______.

The role of the photoreceptors in the eye is to convert the physical stimulus of light into a nerve impulse that can be relayed to the brain.This process is known as _________________.

The sense associated with actively touching objects is known as _____.

Which of the following is an example of a monocular cue?

The pupil is the __________.

When Bill looks at his lamp alternately with his left eye and right eye,the image seems to jump from one position to another.This phenomenon illustrates ______________.

_____ explains pitch perception when hair cells are stimulated at the same rate that a sound wave cycles.

The head can block some of the sound reaching one ear,which makes the sound more intense in one ear than the other.The brain can use this phenomenon-known as a sound shadow-to determine which of the following?

According to your textbook,subliminal advertising:

When scuba divers take red objects underwater,they appear to lose their color,but this does not happen to bluish objects.This demonstrates that water filters out light waves that have

Freddy is looking for his girlfriend in a large crowd of people.Because he is so focused on finding her,he fails to notice when a man in a clown costume walks right up next to him.This is an example of ______________.