Psychology Chapter 6 Quiz
Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for
parallel processing
Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This undermines their claims to possess the power of
precognition
The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of
proximity
The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of
afterimages
Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's
audition
A subliminal message is one that is presented
below one's absolute threshold for awareness.
Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the
cerebellum
Receptor cells in the human eye that are the most sensitive to fine detail are called
cones
The cochlea is a
fluid-filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
The wavelength of light determines its
hue
Dissociation has been used as an explanation for
hypnotic pain relief
The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually
large when it is near the horizon.
Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.
rods; cone
Normal vision accompanied by prosopagnosia best illustrates the distinction between
sensation and perception
If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates
sensory adaptation
Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by
cultural experience
Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of
diffrence thresholds
Holding a heavy rather than a light clipboard leads people to perceive job candidates as more important. This best illustrates
embodied cognition
The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates
perceptual constancy
The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of
transduction