Sensation and Perception

________ cues require only one eye.

Monocular

________ fire in response to any potential tissue-damaging stimuli.

Nociceptors

The organ of Corti on the ________ within the ________ changes vibrations into impulses that travel to the auditory nerve.

basilar membrane; cochlea

Subliminal messaging

can mildly influence behavior.

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, ________ in the retina are responsive to red, green, and blue.

cones

Light energy with very low amplitude would be perceived as ________.

dim

Psychologists use illusions to ________.

explore what people experience, what parts of the brain are involved in perception, and how to alter the illusion

Jessica Witt's study tested ________.

how the perception of the size of a golf hole affects golfing performance This is a direct application of the Ebbinghaus illusion.

Pain that results from damage to neurons of the peripheral or central nervous system is called ________.

neuropathic pain This kind of pain sometimes occurs in cancer patients or those with damage to the major nerve pathways of the body.

The fact that the base of the basilar membrane responds best to high frequencies supports the ________ theory of hearing.

place

Hearing aids are ineffective in treating ________, which is caused by damage to the hair cells in the cochlea that impairs the transmission of signals about sound to the brain.

sensorineural hearing loss Hearing aids magnify the sound entering the inner ear, which does not help when the hair cells are not transmitting a neurochemical signal to the auditory nerve in the normal fashion.

When Martha first visits her Aunt and Uncle's house, the smell of fish is overwhelming, but after an hour, she doesn't even notice it's there. What explains this?

sensory adaptation This process is also sometimes called 'habituation.'

If a sound wave has a high amplitude, it will ________.

sound loud