Psychology 150 chapter 16

Madeline is an interior designer. When she chooses a new color for her client's walls, she always checks the swatch against different colored objects in the room. Madeline is aware of how colors change because of:

relative luminance

At age 53, Ralph underwent radical eye surgery and had to wear an eye patch for four months straight. His vision will be _____ by this sensory restriction.

unaffected

Jay is 48 years old. He recently had his sight restored after 45 years of blindness. He could associate people with their distinct features (e.g., hair color), but could not recognize their faces. He was also not good at judging the size of objects as their distance from him changed. His case suggests that:

vision is partly an acquired sense.

After some practice, Carol was able to read books while holding them upside down. This best illustrates perceptual _____.

Adaptation

Researchers used goggles to restrict kittens' vision for several months. Once the goggles were removed, the kittens could distinguish only color and _____.

Brightness

Opponent-process theory is to ganglion cells as trichromatic theory is to _____ in the retina.

Cones

At Cornell University, Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk placed infants on the edge of a safe canyon to determine whether crawling infants and newborn animals can perceive _____. This famous experiment is known as the visual cliff.

Depth

Your 8-year-old cat ran away, got into a neighbor's cellar, and was stuck there for two months. Luckily, there was enough food and water in the basement for Minnie to survive. However, it was pitch black. When your neighbor returned from her 2-month vacation, she found Minnie and returned her to you. How will this sensory deprivation affect Minnie's vision?

Her vision will be unaffected by this sensory deprivation.

Julio is working on a series of landscape paintings. He wants to create a realistic depiction of the English countryside. To turn the flat surface of the canvas into a three-dimensional painting, which technique would he use?

Linear perspective

You read about an accident at a rail-crossing and wondered about the cause. Perhaps it was caused by linear perspective--a(n) _____ cue concerning parallel lines--which might have led the car's driver to overestimate the distance of the train.

Monocular

Alicia is traveling on a train. She stares out the window at a house. The sidewalk in front of the house will appear to:

Move backward

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 _____ processing.

Parallel

A door casts an increasingly trapezoidal image on our retinas as it opens, yet we still perceive it as rectangular. This illustrates _____ constancy.

Shape

Jasmine was in a serious car accident. She suffered damage to her temporal lobe, just behind her right ear. What kind of problems might this cause for her?

She might have trouble recognizing familiar faces

We have a blind spot in our field of vision, but we ordinarily don't perceive it. What "fills in" the missing visual information?

The brain

The phenomenon of blind sight best illustrates that visual information can be processed without:

conscious awareness

Your 7-month-old niece is just learning to crawl. Your sister has agreed to have her participate in an experiment that incorporates a visual cliff. This experiment is studying _____ perception.

depth

Monte was born with cataracts. He had surgery when he was 30 years old, which restored his sight. After his surgery:

he could not recognize objects by sight that were familiar to him by touch.

Marcus is trying on a bright blue shirt. As Marcus looks in the mirror to check out the shirt the light waves reflected from the shirt that determines the color consist of _____ wavelength and _____ frequency wave

short; high