modele 18
At age 53, Ralph underwent radical eye surgery and had to wear an eye patch for four months straight. His vision will be _____ by this sensory restriction.
Unaffected
The eye takes in an inverted image of the world, yet we see the world correctly because the _____ reassembles the image.
brain
In terms of our sensory experience of light, wavelength is to hue as wave intensity is to _____.
brightness
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 _____ of her eyes are less able to accommodate.
lenses
You read about an accident at a rail-crossing and wondered about the cause. Perhaps it was caused by _____, which might have led the car's driver to overestimate the distance of the train.
linear perspective an monocular cue
Afterimages are best explained by _____ processing theory.
opponent
Eleanor suffered severe stroke damage near the rear of both sides of her brain. She is unable to:
perceive movement.
The human retina has three types of color receptors, each of which is especially sensitive to one of the three primary colors They are:
red, blue, and green.
Madeline is an interior designer. When she chooses a new color for her client's walls, she always checks the swatch against different colored objects in the room. Madeline is aware of how colors change because of:
relative luminance
White paper reflects _____ percent of the light falling on it, while black paper reflects 10 percent.
90
Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by:
Gestalt psychologists.
Alicia is traveling on a train. She stares out the window at a house. The sidewalk in front of the house will appear to move _____
Move backward
You are participating in a psychology experiment in which the research assistant asks you to hold two pencils in front of you and touch the tips together. She then asks you to do this with one eye closed. You find this terribly difficult, which demonstrates the importance of _____ cues.
binocular cues
You are participating in a psychology experiment in which the research assistant asks you to hold two pencils in front of you and touch the tips together. She then asks you to do this with one eye closed. You find this terribly difficult, which demonstrates the importance of:
binocular cues.
The _____ is the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye.
blind spot
At the optometrist's office, Lou failed to distinguish numbers from the color designs shown to him. Lou is most likely _____.
colorblind
The distance between our right and left eyes functions to provide us with a cue for _____ perception known as retinal disparity.
depth
Drivers sometimes overestimate the distance between their own vehicles and pedestrians who are short, because they rely on the distance cue known as relative _____.
size
Jasmine 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