Sensation and Perception quiz answers

You are trying to describe the taste of a cheeseburger to your vegetarian friend. A good descriptor for the meaty, savory taste you experience would be ________.

umami

While you may not notice the change in the music's volume while at a party, you would definitely notice the change if you were trying to study in a quiet library. This supports the idea that the difference threshold is a constant fraction of the original stimulus, also known as ________.

weber's law

________ fire in response to any potential tissue-damaging stimuli.

Nociceptors

________ does not explain how we hear high frequencies.

Trichromatic theory

The vibration of the ________ causes the ossicles to move.

auditory canal

Using the different images that each eye receives in order to perceive depth is called using ________ cues.

binocular

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, ________ in the retina are responsive to red, green, and blue.

cones

The most visible part of the ear is the

pinna

Joanna is competing on Jeopardy!. She doesn't have to think about the distance between her finger and the buzzer and knows just how hard to press because of ________.

proprioception

Mason has a cochlear implant. He is able to hear because the implant

receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain.

Hearing aids are ineffective in treating ________, which is caused by damage to the hair cells in the cochlea that impairs the transmission of signals about sound to the brain.

sensorineural hearing loss

When Martha first visits her Aunt and Uncle's house, the smell of fish is overwhelming, but after an hour, she doesn't even notice it's there. What explains this?

sensory adaptation

You walk by the same billboard on the way to school each day, but have never actually looked at it. When asked to guess which billboard it was from a selection of billboards, you somehow identify the right one because

you subliminally processes the image

Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of similarity, and proximity?

Gastalt

The organ of Corti on the ________ within the ________ changes vibrations into impulses that travel to the auditory nerve.

basilar membrane; cochlea

Subliminal messaging

can mildly influence behavior.

Because taste and smell have sensory receptors that respond to molecules, they are considered ________.

chemical senses

Sierra turns off her car right before the last line of chorus of a popular song. Moments later while inside the store, she finds herself singing the last line. This exemplifies the gestalt principle of ________.

closure

Light energy with very low amplitude would be perceived as ________.

dim

Psychologists use illusions to ________.

explore what people experience, what parts of the brain are involved in perception, and how to alter the illusion

Pitch is determined by the ________ of sound waves.

frequency

Jessica Witt's study tested ________.

how the perception of the size of a golf hole affects golfing performance

Participants in Daniel Simons' and Christopher Chabris' study were asked to watch people pass a basketball. Because they were focused on doing so, the didn't see a gorilla walk across the screen. This phenomenon is called ________.

inattentional blindness

Deondre is working on his swing at baseball practice and is focusing on keeping his elbow out high and his arm turned with his shoulders back. This awareness of his own movement through space is called ________.

kinesthesia

Martha is working on her swing at softball practice and is focusing on keeping her elbow out high and her arm turned with her shoulders back. This awareness of her own movement through space is called ________.

kinesthesia

Merkel's disks and Ruffini corpuscles are examples of ________.

mechanoreceptors

When Brad got into a minor car accident, he hopped right out of the car to assess the damage. He didn't notice until later that night that he had a pretty serious cut on his leg. The fact that he didn't notice is consistent with the ________.

motivation-decision model

The idea that we perceive the world while utilizing a combination of senses is known as ________.

multi-modal perception

Pain that results from damage to neurons of the peripheral or central nervous system is called ________.

neuropathic pain

Smelling the lingering scent of the fish you reheated in the microwave is an example of ________.

olfaction

Olfactory receptor cells pick up odor molecules which activate electrical impulses that send messages to the brain via the ________.

olfactory bulb

The ________ carries visual information from the retina to the brain.

optic nerve

Which correctly describes the process of hearing?

pinna - auditory canal - tympanic membrane - ossicles - cochlea - auditory nerve

The fact that the base of the basilar membrane responds best to high frequencies supports the ________ theory of hearing.

place

According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, cones in the retina are responsive to ________.

red, green, and blue

________ is what happens when information is detected by a sensory receptor, like when Maggie's optic nerves pick up a light flashing in the distance.

sensation

When surrounded by larger circles, a center circle will appear ________ than if surrounded by smaller circles.

smaller

Congenital deafness is ________.

something someone is born with

If a sound wave has a high amplitude, it will ________.

sound loud

If your eyes see someone saying "ball" but the word you hear is "doll", the struggle to make sense of that information in your brain is consistent with ________.

the McGurk effect

Austin has never met one of his work colleagues, having only interacted online or on the phone. He's still able to pick out his coworker at a conference in a room full of people because of ________.

the cross-modal relationship between auditory speech and visual information

What is wavelength?

the distance from one wave peak to the next

Which was the dependent variable in Jessica Witt's study?

the size of the circle drawn by the participant and the number of successful putts

Which was the independent variable in Jessica Witt's study?

the size of the holes projected around the golf hole

Which sense relies on the organs of the inner ear to help maintain balance and body posture?

the vestibular sense

Perception is ________.

the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and experienced

When the brain receives nociceptive signals from the body, ________.

they can be blocked by the brain's descending pain modulatory system

What happened when the participants were asked to draw the size of the hole in Jessica Witt's research?

they drew the hole smaller than the actual hole size if surrounded by larger circles

A sound's purity is called its ________.

timbre

Did you read the second "the" in the sentence in the image? You probably didn't, because your brain doesn't expect to have "the" a second time and skips over it so that the sentence works in the context of what you are familiar with. This is an example of

top-down processing

The opponent-process theory is supported by ________.

trichromatic theory

Braden has a pounding headache and is disoriented after riding a twisting roller coaster. What sense was impacted by the ride?

vestibular

At a football game, your friend from ten rows down yells at you to bring them some of your popcorn. At first you couldn't understand what they were asking, but once you saw their mouth, you could make out the request. This is consistent with the ________.

with the results of the Sumby and Pollack study on the audiovisual advantage