PSYCH CHAPTER 5

Which of the following best describes the phenomenon known as sensory adaptation?

Some people are irritated by the smell of his cologne, but Adam wears it so much that he barely smells it himself..

All of the following aspects of sound location are true, EXCEPT:

Sounds from the left side of your head will appear louder to your right ear than to your left ear..

Phenomena such as change blindness and perceptual set are evidence that perception is

at least partly dependent on expectations and biases about the world.

This Gestalt grouping principle allows for the holistic perception of objects that are blocked by other objects.

closure.

The fovea in the retina has the highest concentration of these cells.

cones.

Unlike the specialized receptors for other aspects of touch, nociceptors are

free nerve endings anywhere in the body.

The perception of pitch, how high or low a tone is, is dependent on this property of sound waves.

frequency.

The primary and secondary taste cortices of the brain are located in the

frontal lobe.

Which of the following phenomena are dependent upon our biases and expectations based on experience with the world?

inattentional blindness.

The receptors embedded in our skin that respond to pressure and touch are called

mechanoreceptors.

In order to perceive flavor, our sense of taste must be combined with this sense.

olfaction.

The sensory receptors in your nose are located in the

olfactory epithelium.

According to this theory, cells in the retina and the thalamus enable the mixing of blue and yellow, red and green, and black and white

opponent process theory.

These pheromones allow for the readiness of certain reproductive responses in men and women.

primer pheromones.

These researchers are responsible for Weber's law and signal detection theory.

psychophysicists.

The retinas in each eye collect slightly different images of the world, which allows for the processing of this binocular depth cue.

retinal disparity.

The ________ are the photoreceptors that respond well in low light, and to motion, but are not specialized for detailed vision.

rods.

The concepts of sensation and perception are different because

sensation is something that happens to your sense organs and neurons; perception is something that happens in consciousness.

When you are standing in a hallway and see your friend walking toward you, the image of him will grow larger on your retina, but you do not perceive him as actually growing in size. This is because of

size constancy.

Which of the following are NOT among the psi phenomena studied by parapsychologists?

subliminal perception.

Unlike the binocular depth cues, the monocular depth cues depend greatly on

the mental assumptions of humans about our environments.

Aside from the receptors for touch, the skin also houses these receptors that allow for perception of temperature.

thermoreceptors.

In the visual cliff experiments by Gibson and Walk (1960), infants would freely explore the deep side of the "cliff" if

they had not yet developed depth perception.

According to this theory of color vision, the peak sensitivity of a cone to one of three spectrums of wavelength dictates the hue that we perceive.

trichromatic.

The basilar membrane is a collection of fibers in the cochlea that ripples in response to

vibrations of the tympanic membrane and ossicles.