Psychology Chapter 6 Exam Review

You stare at a green square for 30 sec., the look at a white sheet of paper. What do you see?

The ability to perceive objects as stable or unchanging despite changes in sensory patterns...

A structure in the cochlea containing hair cells that serve as the receptors for hearing...

Which of the following is true about white light?

Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you aren't attending to it

Equilibrium is maintained by normal functioning of the...

Tilting your head to hear a sound helps you determine...

According to the opponent process theory...

Hearing your name called from across the aisle in a crowded stadium...

A person walking towards you isn't getting larger...but the retinal image does...

If you look at your tongue in a mirror, you will notice bumps called...

Rods and cones are connected by ______ to bipolar neurons...

Smallest difference in stimulation. Can be reliably detected by an observer comparing 2 stimuli

Of the smells that humans detect...

To what extent can Gestalt principles be applied to hearing?

As you drive, you see lots of telephone poles but know that they don't move as you move...

The ability to focus on certain aspects of our sensory environment, while blocking out others

These belonged to a movement that began in Germany and was influential in the 1920s and 30s...

The amount, or intensity, of the light an object emits or reflects is called...

We interpret the world in 3 dimensions due to the process of...

Hue is related to the _____ of light...

The gate-control theory of pain has trouble explaining...

Visual receptors involved in color vision are called...

Neural tissue lining the back of the eyeball's interior- contains receptors for vision...

Signals received by sense organs stimulate diff. neural pathways and leads diff. brain areas

Visual cues to depth or distance that can be used by one eye alone...

Looking at the picture, you see horizontal rather than vertical rows of squares because...

Feeling overwhelmed by the number of people, conversations and forms you need to complete...

Seeing a star from the corner of your eye but not from straight on is...

This allows researchers to assess response biases made by participants in studies...

Which of the following is a Gestalt principle?

When all the frequencies of the sound spectrum occur, they produce a hissing noise called...

2 principles that help explain why a person can make out the Big Dipper on a starry night are

You walk out of a dark theatre into the glare of the sun...your ____ gets smaller...

The thing most hazardous to your hearing in regard to sound intensity...

Research in rods and cones revealed that...

The process by which visual receptors become maximally sensitive to dim light...

Cells that convert physical energy from environment to electrical energy that brain interprets-

Hue, brightness, and saturation, are all ________ of our visual world...

The turing inward of eyes, which occurs when they focus on a nearby object...

Someone who sees color when they hear music may have...

If you eat items and say they are "too bitter" or "too salty" you may be a...

The trichromatic theory states that...

Snail shaped, fluid filled structure in the inner ear...

Usually color deficient people who can't see reds from green see the world in shades of...

It takes about how many years for the sense of smell to return to normal after quitting smoking

Watching flashes of light on a screen in a dark room and informing researchers when you see one

The absence of normal levels of sensory stimulation is called...

This can better explain why we can distinguish between the colors pink and red...

The _____ protects the eye and bends incoming light rays toward a lens located behind it...

Makes a middle-C note on a flute sound very different from a middle-C note on a clarinet

When you look at the picture your brain fills in the gaps so you perceive a complete form...

Receptors that account for our sense of balance are found in the...

As you play Quiz, its unlikely you are constantly aware of your legs contacting your chair

The dimension of auditory experience related to the frequency of a pressure wave....