Psych take home 3
Which binocular cue involves the inward angle of the eyes focusing on a near object?
Convergence
Which of the following has high sensitivity in dim light?
Rods
Multiple — send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single — may link directly to a single bipolar cell
Rods; cones
A subliminal message is one that is presented
below one's absolute threshold for awareness
The area in your visual field that contains no receptor cells is the
blind spot
The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic if
Afterimages
Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's
Audition
Which if the following does not demonstrate the effect of emotions on perceptions?
Being able to walk up a hill quickly when thinking others are mad at you
Compared with the entire range of visible light waves, those that are the highest in frequency are most likely to be experienced as
Blue
Which of the following starts at your sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing?
Bottom up processing
Receptor cells in the human eye that are most sensitive to fine detail are called
Cones
Jeremy is with his girlfriend and feels sexually attracted to her. This will be evident in his
Dilated pupils
Which of the following would respond to specific features of a stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement?
Feature detectors
— line(s) the surface of the basilar membrane
Hair cells
Place theory best explains how we sense — pitches, whereas frequency theory, extended by the volley principle, explain how we sense — pitches
High; low
The wavelength of light determines its
Hue
Kelli's eyes are green. This is describing the — of her eye
Iris
Which part of the eye focuses light rays into an image on your eyeball's inner surface?
Lens
The amount of light an object reflects relative to its surroundings is referred to as relative
Luminance
The difference threshold is the
Minimum difference between two stimuli that can be detected fifty percent of the time
Which of the following is NOT one of the color receptor types included in the Young-helmholtz trichromatic theory?
One that is sensitive to yellow
Janice has a head cold and is congested. When she eats her favorite food, it just doesn't have the same taste now. In fact, she can't really taste any of her food. Why is this?
She is not experiencing sensory interaction
Thomas' orange shirt is now faded. This means that it has
Small amplitude
The absolute threshold is the minimum — needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time
Stimulus energy
Stimuli that are below the absolute threshold are said to be
Subliminal
Which of the following involves several basic sensations?
Tatse
In context in which we view a person or situation can create an expectation that influences our perception through
Top down processing
Research has found that infant monkeys that are not allowed to — their mother become unhappy, demonstrating that this particular sense is important for overall well-being
Touch
Which of the following senses is directly associated with parent-infant attachment?
Touch
The local police department sounds a siren for an AMBER alert. The process which your ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of
Transduction
Elenor Gibson used — to examine depth perception in infants
Visual cliff
Webers law is relevant to an understanding of
difference thresholds
The brightness of a light wave is influenced by its
intensity
The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually
large when it is near the horizon.
The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates
perceptual constancy
The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of
proximity
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
Which of the following is a chemical sense
smell
