Exam 18: Sensation and Perception: Sensory Processes

If you do not hear the traffic outside your psychology class because you are engrossed in the lecture,then you are exhibiting selective attention.

In a drawing,a single vertical line is placed among a group of slanted lines.This effect,which is so basic that babies as young as three months respond to it,is called

Important elements of a stimulus pattern,such as lines,shapes,edges,spots,and colors,are referred to as

Voluntarily placing priorities on sensory messages refers to the process of

Assume that a scientist is working on a device to route sounds directly to the brain to provide a type of hearing for people who are completely deaf.Which principle of sensory functioning would be most useful to the scientist in achieving her goal?

The type of sensation you experience depends on which brain area is activated with this process referred to as sensory __________.

Failure to perceive a stimulus that is in plain view but not the focus of attention is known as

Attention is focused by

Advertisers would be very happy if they heard you humming their jingle around your house because you have fallen prey to an attention-getting device called

Matt has been studying for several hours and begins to rub his eyes.He immediately "sees" stars,checkerboards, and flashes of color.These visual sensations caused by Matt rubbing his eyes are called

The minimum amount of energy needed for a sensation to occur is called

Because our senses select,analyze,and filter information until only the most important information remains,our senses are referred to as __________ systems.

As the senses process information,they divide the world into basic stimulus patterns known as

In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features,Blakemore,Cooper,Grobstein,and Chow found that the kittens raised in the horizontally-striped rooms

When you first get into the swimming pool,the water feels rather cool,but after swimming for a while,the water feels fine.A friend asks you how the water is,and you tell her the "water's great." She jumps in and then accuses you of lying because the water is freezing.You really were not lying.It is just that you experienced

Advertisers would love it if they heard several people humming their products' jingles because it means that television viewers are falling prey to the attention-getting strategy called _____.

Which of the following appears to be based on the ability of brain structures to choose and divert incoming sensory messages?

When our attention is narrowly focused,we may experience

Sensory adaptation refers to a decrease in sensory response that accompanies

Which of the following is NOT one of the general functions of the sensory system?