Chapter 4 Practice Test

The term used to refer to the stimulation of the sense organs is:

A. Sensation

In farsightedness:

B. The focus of light from close objects falls behind the retina

Perception of the brightness of color is affected mainly by:

B. amplitude of light waves

In the study by Kent ick and Gutierres (1980), exposing male subjects to a TV show dominated by extremely beautiful women:

Decreased their ratings of the attractiveness of a prospective date

Which theory would predict that the American flag has a green, black, and yellow afterimage?

Opponent process Theory

In a painting of train tracks may look as if they go off into the distance because the artist draws the tracks as converging lines, a monocular cue to depth known as:

linear perspective

The primary visual cortex is located in the:

occipital lobe

a readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way

perceptual set

The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell's:

receptive field

In what way(s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

the physical stimuli for both senses are chemical substances dissolved in fluid

The fact that theories originally seem as being incompatible, such as trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision, are now seen as both being necessary to explain sensory processes illustrates:

the value of psychology's theoretical diversity