Deck 3: Extension: Sensation and Perception

Question 1

When you stop at a railroad crossing at night, instead of correctly perceiving two red lights that flash alternately you may perceive a single red light that moves back and forth from left to right. This is an example of ________.

A) stroboscopic motion
B) the autokinetic illusion
C) the phi phenomenon
D) the Muller-Lyer illusion

Answer 1

the phi phenomenon

Question 2

Because of the way in which your eyes are connected to the brain, visual information from the ________.

A) left visual field is processed by the left hemisphere and visual information from the right visual field is processed by the right hemisphere
B) left eye is processed by the right hemisphere and visual information from the right eye is processed by the left hemisphere
C) left visual field is processed by the right hemisphere and visual information from the right visual field is processed by the left hemisphere
D) left eye is processed by the left hemisphere and visual information from the right eye is processed by the right hemisphere

Answer 2

left visual field is processed by the right hemisphere and visual information from the right visual field is processed by the left hemisphere

Question 3

________ is often considered the "dispensable" sense, the one we could most easily live without if necessary.

A) Touch
B) Hearing
C) Smell
D) Vision

Answer 3

Smell

Question 4

Which of the following people is most likely to have the sharpest sense of smell?

A) a 63-year-old woman
B) a 25-year-old man
C) a 12-year-old boy
D) a 31-year-old woman

Question 5

A technique by which messages can supposedly be sent to consumers, prompting them to buy a product without their ever being aware of receiving such messages is ________.

A) subliminal perception
B) cognitive restructuring
C) inductive perception
D) selective perception

Question 6

Rods and cones are connected to ________.

A) optic cells
B) efferent cells
C) interneurons
D) bipolar cells

Question 7

The loudness of a sound seems to depend on ________.

A) how rapidly the neurons in the ear fire when they are activated
B) the frequency of the sound wave
C) the quality of the sound wave
D) how many neurons are activated

Question 8

An object's reflection of a percentage of light relative to that of all the surrounding objects is always the same. This fact best explains ________.

A) color constancy
B) reversible figures
C) visual acuity
D) brightness constancy

Question 9

If you stare for 30 seconds at a red object and then look at a blank sheet of white paper, you will see a greenish image of the object. This phenomenon best supports the ________ theory of color vision.

A) Helmholtz opponent-process
B) Hering trichromatic
C) Hering opponent-process
D) Helmholtz trichromatic

Question 10

Which of the following events would be most likely to produce a temporary upset of the vestibular senses?

A) Stimulating the basilar membrane.
B) Riding a wild roller coaster.
C) Staring at a bright flashing strobe light.
D) Listening to a loud stereo through earphones.