Sensation & Perception Review

Question 1

Which part of the ear amplifies the sound?

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middle ear

Question 2

Retinal disparity and convergence are two

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binocular

Question 3

This theory says background experience and expectations influence when we pick up on a signal.

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signal detection

Question 4

Which of the following is the color's physical amplitude

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Brightness

Question 5

As you focus on something your lens must ________ to focus the image on the retina.

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accomodate

Question 6

The absolute threshold for taste is one __ of sugar diffused into ___gallon of water

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Teaspoon: two

Question 7

Smell and taste

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are chemical sense

Question 8

Cocktail party effect is an example of ________________.

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selective attention

Question 9

Semicircular canal are involved in which sense

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Vestibular

Question 10

red-green color blindness, carried on the __ chromosome, is more common among

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X; men

Question 11

Stimulation of the pain fibers in the internal organ causes

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visceral pain

Question 12

Acupuncture may work because it

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increases the endorphins

Question 13

Which of the following is not a bone found in the middle ear?

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Pinna

Question 14

Sensing the position and movement of your body parts is known as ___________.

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kinesthetics

Question 15

The visual cliff measure infants' ability to perceive ________.

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depth

Question 16

closer objects appearing to move faster than other objects and farther away

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motion parallax

Question 17

When the eyeball is too long, a problem results known as

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Myopia

Question 18

Staring at a red stimulus for a while leads to a green after image. This supports

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Hering's opponent-process theory

Question 19

Which part of the eye lets light in

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pupil

Question 20

You put your toe in the pool and it feels cold, you jump in and 10 minutes later it feels warm.

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sensory adaptation

Question 21

Mechanical energy of vibrations is transduced to the electrical energy of neural impulses at:

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the cochlea

Question 22

Focusing on your hand the background gets blurry; your hand is _____ and the background is ____

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the figure; the background

Question 23

The part of the ear responsible for translating info into neural impulses is the

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cochlea

Question 24

Which part of the ear collects sound?

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outer ear

Question 25

objects farther away looking smaller than near objects

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relative size

Question 26

The point at which you can barely sense a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called

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absolute

Question 27

You may more likely to notice restaurants if

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you are hungry

Question 28

Which receptors are centered around the fovea and respond to color?

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cones

Question 29

The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is called

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Continuation

Question 30

Which term is related to smell?

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olfaction

Question 31

Tunnel Vision occurs when vision is lost in the

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Periphery

Question 32

When you walk in the woods at night, you use ______________ in order to feel around for danger.

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bottom-up processing

Question 33

Rods are responsible for

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Dim Light Vision

Question 34

When you wear drunk goggles you might miss when a ball is thrown, but eventually you catch it.

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perceptual adaptation

Question 35

Research shows that the trichromtic theory of color vision

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applies to the retina

Question 36

The dispute between the place theory and the frequency theory has do with the action of

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Basilar membrane

Question 37

Gestalt psychology explains _________.

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the organized whole (perception)

Question 38

Sensory conflict theory attributes motion sickness to a mismatch of information from

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the eyes, vestibular system and the body

Question 39

T WENT TIES - You tend to see the words "went" and "ties," rather than "twenties"- ex. of?

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proximity

Question 40

The point where your optic nerve leaves the eye is known as _____________.

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the blind spot

Question 41

The translation of physical energy into neural impulses is refereed to as

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transduction

Question 42

In visual perception, the object as it appears in the world is referred to as the

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distal stimulus

Question 43

The theory that best accounts for the experience of pain is

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Gate-control Theory

Question 44

This theory says that we have three different color receptors and explains color blindness.

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Young-Helmholtz

Question 45

Which type of hearing loss happens with listening to your music too loud?

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sensorineural hearing loss

Question 46

Many people missed the gorilla moving through the screen because of ___________.

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inattentional blindness

Question 47

Which of following is true regarding perception of the fine detail is true

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Your cones must be functional

Question 48

One building partly blocking another

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interposition

Question 49

Accommodation occurs when eye muscles cause the ___ to bed

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Lens

Question 50

Which of the following accurately depicts the order of sensory and perceptual processes

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Stimulation, detection, conversion, conduction

Question 51

The ___ Carry info from the rods and cones back out to the ganglion cell and then to the brain

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bipolar cells

Question 52

The apparent distance hypothesis explains the

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Moon Illusion

Question 53

Receptors for kinesthesis are located in the:

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joints

Question 54

Purported ability to accurately predict the future is called

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Precognition

Question 55

Of the following, which is not a basic taste?

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Peppery

Question 56

Overtime, an individual no longer hears the hum of an air conditioner. This is an example of

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Habituation

Question 57

The fact that railroad ties seem to merge in the distance is caused by

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linear perspective

Question 58

Which sense is least involved in enabling you to maintain balance when you stand on one foot?

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olfaction

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