ap sensation/ perception

Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detectors in the visual:

cortex

Infant rats deprived of their mothers' grooming touch produce:

less growth hormone and have a lower metabolic rate.

our experiences of pain when we are injured depend on:

our physiology, experiences and attention, and surrounding culture

the phantom limb sensation indicates that:

pain involves the brain's interpretation of neural activity

Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for:

parallel processing

perception

perception

The volley principle is most relevant to understanding how we sense:

pitch

Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This undermines their claims to possess the power of:

precognition.

of four distinct skin senses, the only one that has definable receptors is:

pressure

Damage to a region of the temporal lobe essential to recognizing faces results in a condition known as:

prosopagnosia

in the opponent-process theory, the three pairs of processes are:

red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to the:

Oval window

Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

rods; cons

The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates.

sensory interaction

The ability to accurately perceive distances most clearly underlies our capacity for:

size constancy.

in order to maximize your sensitivity to fine visual detail you should:

stare directly at the object

Monocular cue is to _______ as binocular cue is to ________.

texture gradient; convergence

The specific perceptual processes that underlie the Moon illusion also contribute to:

the Ponzo illusion.

Our shifting perceptions of a Necker cube best illustrate the importance of:

top-down processing

adults who are born blind but later have their vision restored:

typically fail to recognize familiar objects

Visual information is processed by ganglion cells:

after it is processed by rods and cones and after it is processed by bipolar cells.

the inner ear contains receptors for:

audition and the vestibular sense

Tinnitus is a phantom ______ sensation.

auditory:

Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the:

cerebellum.

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

change blindness

By amplifying soft sounds but not loud sounds, digital hearing aids produce:

compressed sound.