Exam 18: Waking and Sleeping Rhythms

When a power outage shut off the lights in her house late one night,Amanda could see very little.But within 20 minutes she could see quite well in the dark due to

According to the opponent-process theory,cells that are turned "on" by

John has more difficulty hitting baseballs that are pitched to him than his classmates do because he was born blind in his right eye.His difficulty can best be attributed to his lack of the depth cue known as

After some practice,Carol was able to read books while holding them upside down.This best illustrates

On a cloudy day,a yellow flower is likely to appear ________ it does on a bright sunny day.

The amount of light reflected by an object relative to the amount reflected by surrounding objects is called

People who demonstrate blindsight have most likely suffered damage to their

We compute motion based on the assumption that shrinking objects are

The fovea refers to

After suffering stroke damage to specific areas of her brain,Mrs.M.cannot visually perceive the motion of objects,though she can visually perceive their form,color,and depth.Her experience best illustrates the role of ________ in visual perception.

Explain how research on size constancy,restored vision,and perceptual adaptation serves to support and/or refute John Locke's emphasis on the importance of learning in perception.

Although he was wearing a pair of glasses that shifted the apparent location of objects 20 degrees to his right,after a short practice time Lars was still able to play tennis very effectively.This best illustrates the value of

Relative height is a cue involving our perception of objects higher in our field of vision as

People who lack color receptors for the wavelengths of red are unusually likely to experience

Viewing the light reflected by any object relative to the light reflected by surrounding objects is most necessary for experiencing

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change is known as

The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other is called

The perception that a cartoon character is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates

Who first hypothesized that the eye must have three different types of color receptors,with each especially sensitive to one of the three primary colors?

The tendency to see complete letters on a neon sign,even though some of the bulbs are burned out,illustrates the principle of