PSY 100- CMU Ch. 6

Kinesthesis

The sensory experience of bending one's knees or raising one's arms exemplifies

Weber's Law

The size of the difference threshold is greater for heavier objects than for lighter ones. This best illustrates

Proximity

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of

Cerebellum

18. Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the

Human Factors Psychologists

2. ATM machines are more complex than VCRs ever were but are easier to operate thanks to the efforts of

Sensory interaction

27. The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates

Shape Constancy

A door casts an increasingly trapezoidal image on our retinas as it opens, yet we still perceive it as rectangular. This illustrates

Perceptual Set

After hearing that Bryce had served a prison sentence, Janet began to perceive his friendly behavior as insincere and manipulative. This best illustrates the impact of

Perceptual Adaptation

After some practice, Carol was able to read books while holding them upside down. This best illustrates

Conscious Awareness

The phenomenon of blindsight best illustrates that visual information can be processed without

Some combination of place and frequency theories seems to handle the pitches in the intermediate range

Current understanding of pitch perception indicates that

Audition

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's

Color constancy

Grass seen through sunglasses appears equally as green as it does without glasses. This best illustrates

The information can be processed outside of conscious awareness

If a visual image is first presented subliminally, the chance of a person later recognizing the same briefly presented image is improved. This best illustrates

Sensory adaptation

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

Cultural experience

Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by

Top-down processing

Interpreting new sensory information within the framework of a past memory illustrates

Rods; cone

Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

Pain

Nociceptors initiate the sensation of

Perceptual Set

People perceive an adult-child pair as looking more alike when told they are parent and child. This best illustrates the impact of

Pre-cognition

Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This undermines their claims to possess the power of

Top-down processing

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of

Linear perspective

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

Gestalt psychologists

Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by

Parallel Processing

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

Large when it is near the horizon

The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually

Fovea

The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the

Retinal disparity

The distance between our right and left eyes functions to provide us with a cue for depth perception known as

Perceptual Constancy

The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates

Afterimages

The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of