Sensation and perception quiz

Railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. This provides a cue for depth perception known as

linear perspective.

________ amplitudes are associated with ________ sounds.

Higher; louder

________ refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced; ________ refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor.

Perception; sensation

If you watch a flock of birds flying overhead, each very close to the next one, you may perceive them as all being part of the same group. If they were all spaced very much apart, however, you may see them as individual birds not flying together. This distinction takes advantage of which Gestalt principle?

Proximity

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's

audition.

Which type of processing involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge and expectancies?

bottom-up

The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the

fovea.

The wavelength of light determines

hue.

Nociceptors initiate the sensation of

pain.

The sensory experience of bending one's knees or raising one's arms exemplifies

kinesthesia.

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

After hearing that Bryce had served a prison sentence, Janet began to perceive his friendly behavior as insincere and manipulative. This best illustrates the impact of

perceptual set.

The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe.

temporal

Vinnie is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The ________ sense helps keep him balanced so he has less chance of falling over.

vestibular

Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of

difference thresholds.

________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives, and is a distance cue that allows us to perceive the depth of a given visual stimulus.

Binocular

Wesley is in a movie theater with no windows—the only light is low illumination from the emergency lights on the floor. Which photoreceptors will be most useful to Wesley as he attempts to leave the theater?

Rods

Which of these is not one of the structures that comprises the outer ear?

The basilar membrane

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.

The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of

transduction