Learning Curve 6b.

Psychologist _____ conducted a famous experiment on perceptual adaptation in which he wore a pair of glasses that inverted his vision for eight days.

Stratton

Forty-five-year-old Ray has noticed that newspaper print is too small for him to read. Ray needs reading glasses because the lenses of his eyes are less able to _____.

accommodate

In a psychology experiment, Charles is asked to hold two pencils in front of him and touch the tips together. She then asks him to do this with one eye closed. Charles finds this terribly difficult, which demonstrates the importance of:

binocular cues

Raul is a contractor surveying the progress on a home being built. Although the frame isn't complete, he can still get a sense of what it will look like. This illustrates the principle of:

closure

Vanni wakes up while his room is still fairly dark. He looks over and sees his shirt hanging on a hook. Vanni knows it's his red shirt because he hung it there before going to bed, but in the dark it looks gray to him. This is because in the dim light, the _____ in Vanni's eyes are ineffectual.

cones

Visual information is processed by _____ cells after it is processed by rods and cones and after it is processed by bipolar cells.

ganglion

Julio wants his paintings of the English countryside to be realistic. To turn the flat surface of the canvas into a three-dimensional painting, which technique should he use?

interposition

Forty-five-year-old Mortimer has noticed that newspaper print is too small for him to read. Mortimer needs reading glasses because the _____ of his eyes are less able to accommodate.

lenses

Relative size, interposition, linear perspective, relative motion, and relative height are examples of _____ cues.

monocular

Tati suffered severe stroke damage near the rear of both sides of her brain. She is now unable to perceive _____.

movement

Bart was hit by a baseball at the back of his head and is now having severe difficulties with his vision. This is because the baseball hit his _____ lobe.

occipital

According to the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory, the retina has three types of color receptors. Each type is sensitive to one of three colors: _____, green, or blue.

red

A door casts an increasingly trapezoidal image on our retinas as it opens, yet we still perceive it as rectangular. This illustrates _____ constancy.

shape

Cora was in a serious car accident and is having trouble recognizing familiar faces. She MOST likely suffered damage to her _____ lobe, just behind her right ear.

temporal

At the corner of Jessica's desk is one of her favorite antique statues. If you looked at Jessica's desk, you would tend to perceive the statue as _____, and her desk as _____.

the figure; the ground

Fran's 8-year-old cat Minnie was stuck in a neighbor's cellar for two months. Luckily, there was enough food and water in the basement for Minnie to survive. However, it was pitch black. When her neighbor returned from her two-month vacation, she found Minnie and returned her to Fran. How will this sensory deprivation affect Minnie's vision? (A) Her vision will be unaffected by this sensory deprivation (B) Her vision will be disturbed, and she won't be able to discriminate shapes. (C) She will be totally blind. (D) Her vision will be disturbed, and she won't be able to discriminate colors.

(A)

Kiera stayed up way too late last night and her eyes are tired. She closes her eyes, and as she rubs the left side of her left eyelid, she notices a patch of light to the right. This is because: (A)nKiera's retinal cells are extremely responsive, and the pressure from her finger triggers them. (B) the pressure from Kiera's finger triggers a response in her cones, which are extremely responsive to darkness. (C) Kiera's pupils contract in the darkness. (D) Kiera's rods are responding to the darkness.

(A)

Bees can see ultraviolet light but cannot see the color red. This means that bees are NOT sensitive to: (A) short wavelengths. (B) any color. (C) long wavelengths. (D) intense colors.

(C)