Psych Chapter 4 Quiz

The physical stimuli for the sense of taste

Are chemical substances that are soluble in water

Food generally tastes bland when you have a severe head cold because...

Flavor is influenced by smell as well as taste, and with a reduced sense of smell your sense of flavor will be diminished

The theory of hearing that views the basilar membrane as being like a drumhead is

Frequency theory

The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as the

Gustatory system

If you were starving and started to see the people around you as food (that is, you literally saw someone's head as a leg of lamb, e.g.), this would support the idea that visual information is processed _______.

Top-down processing

The structure that controls the size of the pupil is the

Iris

Our past experiences and current expectations often influence the way we perceive sensory information because they create

A perceptual set

We often perceive a series of dots on a printed form as a "solid" line because of the Gestalt principle of

Closure

Where are auditory stimuli changed into neural signal?

Cochlea

In dim light, the pupil of the eye is...

Dilated, producing an image that is not as sharp

Research suggests that compared with super-tasters, non-tasters tend to have

Fewer taste buds

If Professor Martínez-Villanueva were to argue that incoming pain sensations must pass through an opening in the spinal cord and that this opening could be closed, thus blocking ascending pain signals, which theory would Dr. Martínez-Villanueva be arguing?

Gate-control theory

Diamond is having her eyes checked. The doctor has put drops in Diamond's eyes that will cause the pupils to open wide. As the drops begin to work, Diamond will MOST likely notice that

Her vision will start to become quite blurry

Iman was painting a picture of a jet on a runway; however, in her painting, the sides of the runway are parallel to each other. Iman's picture will seem to lack depth because she has failed to make use of the monocular depth cue of

Linear perspective

Which sensory system is the only one which does not involve the thalamus before projecting to the primary cortex?

Olfactory system

Stimulation of sensory receptors of the skin is processed in the

Parietal lobes

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of vision associated with cones?

Peripheral vision

The perception of timbre corresponds to a sound wave's

Purity

Which part of the eye contains neurons?

Retina

Which type of receptor is slower, but better at adapting to the dark?

Rod

Which of the following statements MOST accurately describes how visual information is transmitted to the brain?

Signals from both eyes go to both hemispheres of the brain

The pathway for pain that results in the experience of pain being less localized and longer lasting is the

Slow pathway

Our perception of the brightness of a color is affected mainly by

The amplitude of light waves

Sensation is to ___ as perception is to ___.

The stimulation of visual receptors; recognizing an object as a flower

In explaining color vision, contemporary researchers claim that at the level of the cones, color vision occurs via a(n) ____ process, but in the thalamus and visual cortex, the process is a(n) ____ one.

Trichromatic; opponent-process