Exam 4: Sensation and Perception-Part A

The place code works BEST for encoding:

Jordan was born without hair cells and has been deaf since birth.She experiences which type of hearing loss?

In signal detection research,correctly detecting a signal in noise is classified as a:

Objects that cast a GREATER retinal disparity are perceived as being:

The perception of movement as a result of alternating signals appearing in rapid succession in different locations is termed:

Knowledge of a wine's price will affect our perception of its flavor,illustrating:

The hole in the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye is termed the:

Participants in a perceptual study are shown a green square,a blue circle,and a red triangle.Subsequently,which object would they be LEAST likely to report seeing?

People with visual form agnosia:

In 2015,a picture of a dress became an Internet sensation because people could not agree if it was blue/black or white/gold.Research that followed suggests which group is MOST likely to perceive the dress as white/gold?

As you read this question,your eyeballs are registering different patterns of light reflecting off the page.This information is converted into a neural code in a process termed:

Brittany suffered severe ear infections as a child and had to have tubes inserted into her ear canal so that she could hear.The ear infections were causing which type of hearing loss in Brittany?

A tennis player might use feedback from the receptors in her forearm to:

Meg orders food at the counter of her favorite fast-food restaurant.The employee who takes her order steps aside and another employee then takes Meg's money.Although the two employees look somewhat different,Meg perceives that it is the same person who both took her order and money.This failure to perceive BEST illustrates _____ blindness.

Cochlear base is to cochlear tip as:

The shortest wavelengths in the visible spectrum will be perceived as:

In class,Calvin suddenly noticed that a classmate was wearing the same perfume as his first girlfriend.After identifying the perfume,Calvin experienced warm memories associated with this relationship,illustrating the _____ approach to odor perception.

Tammy and Chad sent their toddler to time-out 10 minutes ago,and ever since,the boy has been crying.Tammy notes that the crying just decreased in volume ever so slightly and comments that perhaps he is beginning to settle down.From Chad's perspective,however,the boy is crying just as loudly as before.Tammy and Chad differ in the _____ threshold for detecting a sound.

According to _____ theories,the brain recognizes objects by comparing the current pattern of retinal stimulation to its library of mental templates of objects.

A moving object stimulates different locations at different time points on a stationary viewer's: