Deck 3: Section 4: Sensation and Perception

Question 1

All of the following are depth perception cues EXCEPT _____.

A) interposition
B) subjective contours
C) retinal disparity
D) linear perspective

Answer 1

subjective contours

Question 2

Aging and exposure to loud noises can damage hair cells in the ear and result in _____.

A) nerve deafness
B) congenital deafness
C) conduction deafness
D) tone deafness

Answer 2

nerve deafness

Question 3

Signal detection theory is based on _____.

A) decision making
B) sensory processing
C) neither decision making nor sensory processing
D) both decision making and sensory processing

Answer 3

both decision making and sensory processing

Question 4

The number of times a waveform cycles in one second is a wave's _____.

A) wavelength
B) amplitude
C) frequency
D) transduction rate

Question 5

According to Stevens's power law, which type of sensory judgment produces perceived magnitudes closest to the actual physical magnitudes?

A) judgment of intensity of electric shock
B) judgment of loudness of a sound
C) judgment of length of a line
D) judgment of brightness of a light

Question 6

The brain's use of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations to interpret sensory information is known as _____.

A) contextual processing
B) top-down processing
C) equalized processing
D) bottom-up processing

Question 7

Although the image of a tree that is 3 feet away is larger on the retina than the image of the same tree when it is 30 feet away, we know that the tree is staying the same size due to _____.

A) perceptual ambiguity
B) figure-and-ground principle
C) perceptual constancy
D) subjective contours

Question 8

Which of the following is the correct path that light takes through the eye?

A) cornea $\rightarrow$ pupil $\rightarrow$ retina $\rightarrow$ optic nerve $\rightarrow$ thalamus $\rightarrow$ brain
B) retina $\rightarrow$ pupil $\rightarrow$ cornea $\rightarrow$ optic nerve $\rightarrow$ brain $\rightarrow$ thalamus
C) retina $\rightarrow$ cornea $\rightarrow$ pupil $\rightarrow$ optic nerve $\rightarrow$ thalamus $\rightarrow$ brain
D) cornea $\rightarrow$ pupil $\rightarrow$ optic nerve $\rightarrow$ retina $\rightarrow$ brain $\rightarrow$ thalamus

Question 9

In the eye, rods are located in the _____ and cones are located in the _____.

A) fovea; periphery of the retina
B) periphery of the retina; fovea
C) periphery of the retina; periphery of the retina
D) fovea; fovea

Question 10

The trichromatic theory of color vision assumes the colors we see are additive mixtures of _____.

A) red, blue, and yellow
B) yellow, green, and blue
C) green, red, and yellow
D) blue, green, and red

Question 11

The absolute threshold is best described as the _____.

A) minimum amount of energy in a sensory stimulus detected 50 percent of the time
B) absolute minimum amount of energy needed for a sensory stimulus to be detected
C) absolute maximum amount of energy needed for a sensory stimulus to be subliminally detected
D) maximum amount of energy in a sensory stimulus detected 100 percent of the time.