Module 18. Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Jess 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

__________ ____ are depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes and cannot be translated into two dimensions.

Binocular cues

Mia is attracted to a man she is chatting with in a nightclub. What is probably happening to her eyes?

Her pupils are dilating.

How do trichromatic and opponent-process theories differ?

In opponent-process theory, the cells responsive to color operate in conjunction, rather than independently.

You wake up early in the morning and your room is fairly dark. You look over and see your shirt hanging on a hook. You know it's your red shirt because you hung it up there before you went to bed, but in the dark you can't see its color. It looks dark gray to you. Why is that?

In the dim light, the cones in your eyes are ineffectual.

_________ would determine whether the sweatshirt is seen as yellow or as another color.

Wavelength

Even when seen through sunglasses, grass appears equally as green as it does without glasses. This BEST illustrates:

color constancy.

The electromagnetic spectrum:

contains the wavelengths people see as light.

As you watch a dog play in the park, light reflected from the dog's fur first passes through three structures of your eye. In what order does the light pass through these structures?

cornea, pupil, lens

Railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. This provides a cue for depth perception known as _____.

linear perspective

A _____ amplitude light wave would not be seen as bright at all.

low

Denise wears an extremely bright safety yellow sweatshirt when she cycles to the gym after dark. The sweatshirt's brightness reflects the _____ of the light it reflects.

high amplitude

Talia is 45 years old. She has started to notice that newspaper print is too small for her to read. Talia needs reading glasses because the:

lens of her eyes is less able to accommodate.

Julio is working on a series of landscape paintings. He wants to create a realistic depiction of the English countryside. To turn the flat surface of the canvas into a three-dimensional painting, he might use the technique of:

linear perspective.

The ______ lobe receives information from the visual fields.

occipital

Feature-detecting neurons:

respond to specific features of a visual stimulus such as shape, angle, or movement.

When psychologists refer to the visible part of the light spectrum, they mean:

the narrow range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum that can be detected by the human eye.

Researchers Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk placed infants on the edge of a safe canyon to determine whether crawling infants and newborn animals can perceive depth. This famous experimental setup is known as the _____ cliff.

visual

According to the textbook, your eyes receive light energy and transform it into neural messages that your brain then processes into what you consciously see. Which choice correctly matches a phrase from this statement with the correct sensory or perceptual process?

your brain then processes into what you consciously see - perception