Exam 4: Sensation and Perception-Part A

How does the color-opponent system explain color afterimages?

Which sequence of eye parts through which light passes on its way to the brain is CORRECT?

Phil loves the slow boom-boom-boom of the bass in his favorite R&B song.Which account of audition BEST accounts for his perception of the beat?

You probably can detect a weight difference between a 1-ounce and a 2-ounce envelope.But if you pick up a 20-pound package,you'd probably need another package that weighs at least 20.5 pounds before detecting a difference between them.This description illustrates:

A mother tells her teenage son to turn down his music.The son tells his mom that he will do so and turns the volume down slightly.A minute later,the mother cannot tell that her son complied with her request,so she yells at him.Apparently,the decrease in volume did not meet the mother's:

Juggling two independent sources of sensory input at the same time is an example of:

According to _____,the brain perceives pitch by the firing rate of action potentials entering the auditory nerve.

Transduction involves converting _____ signals from the environment to _____ signals sent to the central nervous system.

The only sense directly connected to the forebrain is:

When visiting a friend's house,you begin having warm memories of your grandmother.A few moments later,you realize that this is because you can detect the smell of freshly baked cookies coming from the kitchen.This illustrates the _____ approach to odor perception.

Because the brown bear is partially obscured by the car,Nick assumes that the car is closer to him than is the bear.Nick is depending on the cue called:

Even new drivers perceive the intersection of two streets as such,rather than the place where four streets meet,illustrating the perceptual grouping rule of:

Counting how often the peaks of a sound wave pass a microphone is a measure of its:

In signal detection research,failing to detect a signal in noise is classified as a(n):

Which type of emission has the LONGEST wavelength?

In signal detection research,signals of various intensities are presented in the presence of constant noise,and the participant must determine if the signal was presented or not.Each decision can be classified into one of _____ categories.

The dorsal visual stream is to the ventral visual stream as:

People are MOST sensitive to the range of tones corresponding to:

Which taste perception is genetic?

Olfaction and gustation: