M18 - Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Mia is attracted to a man she is chatting with in a nightclub. What is probably happening to her eyes?

Her pupils are dilating.

You wake up early in the morning and your room is fairly dark. You look over and see your shirt hanging on a hook. You know it's your red shirt because you hung it up there before you went to bed, but in the dark you can't see its color. It looks dark gray to you. Why is that?

In the dim light, the cones in your eyes are ineffectual.

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:

lens of her eyes is less able to accommodate.

Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by _____ psychologists.

Gestalt

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 lenses of her eyes are less able to adjust, or _____.

accommodate

That visual information can be processed without conscious awareness is BEST illustrated by:

blindsight

As you watch a dog play in the park, light reflected from the dog's fur first passes through three structures of your eye. In what order does the light pass through these structures?

cornea, pupil, lens

The color afterimage effect can be explained by the color-opponent system, in that _____ cells are inhibited by _____ cells.

green; red

Railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. This provides a cue for depth perception known as _____.

linear perspective

After some practice, Lori was able to read books while holding them upside down. This BEST illustrates _____.

perceptual adaptation