Sensation and Perception

A stimulus presented below the absolute threshold is called

subliminal

Vinnie is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The ________ sense in his inner ear helps keep him balanced so he has less chance of falling over.

vestibular

The McGurk effect occurs when ________.

we combine information from speech and from the way the speaker's lips are moving to hear something different from either

If you are in a crowded room at a noisy party having a conversation with an interesting new acquaintance, studies show that if you are looking at him while talking, ________.

you are more likely to hear what he is saying

What is amplitude?

Height of a wave

Inattentional ________ refers to the failure to notice something that is completely visible due to a lack of attention.

blindness

Ravon was born deaf, so he is diagnosed with ________ deafness.

congenital

Illusions are valuable to psychologists because they are used to ________.

explore what people experience and what parts of the brain are involved in perception

Loudness is to amplitude as pitch is to ________.

frequency

Jessica Witt's study tested ________.

how perception affects performance

Mariah is nervous about giving birth to her first baby, but takes a hypnobirthing class and becomes excited about the possibility of having a pain-free birth. The idea that Mariah can control her pain experience in consistent with the ________.

motivation-decision model

Felicia smacks her thumb with a hammer while building a doghouse. The sense of ________ provides her brain with information about the pain she feels.

nociception

The sensory system that detects smells is ________.

olfaction

The idea that color is coded in pairs of black-white, yellow-blue, and green-red is the basic premise of the ________.

opponent-process theory

Which nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain?

optic

Which of the following theories is currently thought to provide the best explanation for how we perceive low frequencies (below 150 hz)?

place theory

________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives.

Binocular

Read the following two sentences. (1) Gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.