Exam 4: Sensation and Perception-Part C

Radiologists attempting to determine if a growth is cancerous probably will adopt a liberal decision criterion.

As attention to the task increases,the number of illusory conjunctions made decreases.

Visual acuity is best when light is projected onto the optic nerve.

Change blindness is distinguished from inattentional blindness in that,in order to demonstrate change blindness,participants must first focus their attention on some object or task.

Sounds that activate hair cells on the base of the basilar membrane are perceived as having a high pitch.

People with congenital insensitivity to pain usually live longer than do those with normal pain sensitivity.

Feature binding appears to occur primarily in the occipital lobe.

Sounds higher in frequency are processed toward the front of area A1.

The Ames room illusion works,in part,by exploiting the monocular cue of familiar size.

The length of a light wave determines the color we perceive.

Observers busy counting basketball passes did not notice a man in a gorilla suit walk through their field of vision;this finding is a striking example of inattentional blindness.

Image-based object recognition theories are challenged by the fact that we easily recognize the face of our mothers from the faces of other women.

Someone with visual form agnosia might recognize an object as a pencil but will not be able to write with it.

Stimulation below our absolute threshold will never be detected.

There are more rods than there are cones in the retina.

Parts-based object recognition theories would have problems explaining how you can distinguish your yellow Labrador retriever from the neighbor's golden retriever.

The field of psychophysics was developed by Gustav Fechner.

Thermoreceptors in the skin detect pressure and vibration.

Gestalt psychology emphasizes how a unified object is broken down into its component parts.

The process by which the lens changes shape in order to focus light on the retina is termed phototransduction.