ap psych

Generally (with due respect to umami), the four basic tastes are:

Salty, sweet, sour, and bitter

If one is subjected to prolonged stimulation, eventually

Sensory adaptation will occur

The visual cortex is to the auditory cortex as the occipital lobe is to the:

temporal lobe

Interposition refers to:

A depth cue in which closer objects overlap objects farther away.

Feature analysis assumes that we progress from individual elements to the whole in the formation of our perceptions. This is a case of:

Bottom-up processing

The retina is to the eye as the:

Cochlea is to the ear

As the large butterfly flew toward Richard, he could tell it was getting closer because he could feel his eyes turning inward toward his nose as he watched it. In this instance, Richard was able to judge how far away the butterfly was using the depth cue of:

Convergence

Parallel processing in the visual pathways suggests that separate neural channels:

Extract different information from visual stimuli

Imagine that biologists have discovered an animal that has eyes very similar to human eyes, but that the only receptor cells in the retina are rods; there are no cones. Based on what is known about human vision you might expect the animal would:

Have no color vision

A police officer asked Stanley to close his eyes and touch the tip of his nose, using first his right index finger and then his left index finger. To complete the test of coordination, Stanley would need to rely on:

His vestibular sense

Hering's opponent-process theory suggests that receptors are linked antagonistically in pairs. His opposed pairs were:

Red-green; yellow-blue; black-white

Ron is making potato soup. His roommate tastes it and tells Ron it is great, but Ron thinks it needs more salt. He adds just a little salt, and thinks the soup now tastes perfect. However, his roommate tastes it again and tells Ron that the soup is ruined because it is too salty. Apparently, for the taste of salt:

Ron's roommate can detect a smaller just noticeable difference than Ron can.

Loreen has a bad case of vertigo. She feels like the room is spinning, and she has trouble keeping her balance. It is possible that this sense of disequilibrium is a result of excess activity in neurons in the:

Semicircular canals

Our perception of the brightness of a color is affected mainly by:

The amplitude of light waves.

Hue is to pitch as brightness is to:

loudness

The primary visual cortex is located in the:

occipital lobe

The visual cortex is located in the

occipital lobe

Images that occupy more space on your retina are seen as nearer relative to images that occupy less space. This is a cue to depth perception known as:

relative size

Blake was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Blake's perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of:

similarity

information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experiences and expectations

top down

The phenomenon of size constancy implies that:

two objects may be perceived as being the same size even though they produce different size retinal images