psych

Children who group individuals together who live in the same neighborhood would be using the Gestalt principle of

proximity

Infants who were exposed to the visual cliff

refused to cross over the "deep" side to their mothers.

Feature detectors are specialized cells in the brain that

respond only to certain features in the visual field

The light sensitive inner surface of the back of the eye, which contains rods and cones, is called the

retina

***Reconciliation of the trichromatic and opponent-process theories demonstrates that color is processed in an opponent fashion in the _____ and in a trichromatic fashion in the ____.

retina, brain

Someone who has vision in only one eye can no longer use _____ as a cue for the perception of depth and distance.

retinal disparity

Giulio's bag of marbles is twice as heavy as Jim's. If it takes 5 extra marbles to make Jim's bag feel heavier. it will take 10 extra marbles to make Giulio's bag feel heavier. This best illustrates:

,Weber's law.

If you stubbed your toe, how could you apply the gate-control theory of pain to keep your toe from hurting

You can rub the toe that hurts.

A research study establishes that most people can taste one gram of salt in one quart of water. Which of the following concepts is most closely related to the goal of the study?

absolute threshold

An example of __________ would be someone who does not recognize the picture in the puzzle until the very last piece of the puzzle is in its place.

bottom up

Human senses can be divided into which two major categories based on what the senses gather from the outside world?

energy and chemical

***An example of ____________ would be if you were expecting a phone call from your husband around lunchtime and responded to the male voice by saying "Hi, honey when your phone rang at noon, but found out that it was your boss calling.

extrasensory perception

The color aftereffects phenomenon predicts that after staring at a bright red rectangle for a period of time, you will see a _____ when you look away at a white background.

green rectangle

The fruit is perceived as being closer than the wine bottle due to the monocular cue of:

interposition

Jennifer can tune her guitar more effectively than Maria because Jennifer is better at detecting whether specific strings are playing too sharp or too flat. With respect to tone sensitivity, Maria apparently has a ________ threshold than does Jennifer.

larger differenced

Which of the following monocular cues is demonstrated in the photograph below? *road*

linear perspective

kinesthetic receptors are located

muscles, joints, tendons

The ability to simultaneously recognize the color, shape, size, and speed of an oncoming automobile best illustrates

parallel processing.

If three people standing next to each other witnessed a robbery and each person described the robber differently, then these different interpretations MOST LIKELY would illustrate differences in

perception

are naturally occurring body scents that affect, in particular, the sexual behaviors of others.

pheromones

After listening to your high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates

sensory adaptation

With her eyes closed and her nose plugged, Chandra was unable to taste the difference between an onion and a pear. Her experience best illustrates the importance of

sensory interaction

A young child would not yet have developed the principle of ____________ if she thinks her daddy is getting smaller and smaller as he walks away from her.

size consistancy

Evidence that some cones are especially sensitive to red light, others to green light, and still others to blue light is most directly supportive of

the Young-Helmholtz theory.

***A psychophysicist would be most directly concerned with

the relation between the wavelength of light and the experience of color.

People's response to subliminal priming indicates that

they are capable of processing information without any conscious awareness of doing so.

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top-down processing

Which basic taste attracts us to protein-rich foods?

umami

The sense of balance, or body orientation and position in respect to gravity is called the

vestibular sense

Touching side-by-side cold and pressure spots triggers a sense of

wetness