Psych 5.1 Sensation and Perception

The opponent-process theory is supported by ____________.

Afterimages

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

Binocular

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

Binocular

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

Fluids found in the part of the ear pictured here stimulate hair cells in the organ of Corti.

Cochlea

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

Cones

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.

Psychologists use illusions to ____________.

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

Loudness is to amplitude as pitch is to ____________.

Frequency

Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?

Gestalt

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

Gestalt

____________- frequency sound waves are perceived as high-pitched sounds, while ____________- frequency sound waves are perceived as low-pitched sounds.

High; low

What is described by the concept of perception?

How sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced

Jessica Witt's study tested ____________.

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

Which of the following describes the change in stimulus strength required to detect a difference between the stimuli?

Just noticeable

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

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 ____________.

Multimodal perception

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

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

Nociceptors

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

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

Optic nerve

When pain signals are exaggerated, it is because of damage to the _____________.

Peripheral or central nervous system

Which theory holds that the pitch we hear is determined by the particular location on the cochlea where the hair cells vibrate the most?

Place theory

What allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and jump out of her truck without thinking about it?

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.

According to research by Rosenblum, Miller, and Sanchez, watching (but not hearing) a person speak enables you to ____________.

Recognize their voice

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

Red, green, and blue

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 ____________.

Results of the Sumby and Pollack study on the audiovisual advantage

Daemon started to lose his hearing in his late 70s, after a lifetime of construction work. His doctors told him that repeated exposure to loud noise had caused damage to the hair cells of the cochlea. This type of hearing loss would be classified as ____________.

Sensorineural hearing loss

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

The day Kim is in Nairobi she notices the honking, engine sounds, yelling, and other street noises. By the second day, however, she no longer notices these. Which of the following is the best explanation?

Sensory adaptation

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

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

Smaller

Which of the following exemplifies olfaction?

Smelling cookies in the oven

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

Sound loud

____________ does not explain how we hear high frequencies.

Temporal theory

If your eyes see someone "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.

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 vibration of the ____________ causes the ossicles to move.

Tympanic membrane

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

Light energy with very high amplitude would be perceived as ____________.

Very bright

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

Vestibular

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.

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

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

You subliminally processed the image