LearningCurve Module 18. Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

move backward.

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

cornea, pupil, lens

As you watch a dog play in the park, light reflected from the dog's fur first passes through three structures of your eye. In what order does the light pass through these structures?

cones; fovea

James is threading a needle under a bright light bulb. During this task, James' vision is driven mainly by the _____ in his _____.

Red apples on a tree seem to be the same color as the surrounding green leaves.

Damon, who is among the 8 percent of males with colorblindness, suffers from the most common form of colorblindness. Which statement BEST illustrates Damon's experience of color?

exceed

Gestalt psychologists were fond of saying that, in perception, the whole may _____ the sum of its parts.

monocular

Relative size, interposition, relative motion, and relative height are examples of _____ cues to depth perception.

parallel processing.

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:

binocular cues.

Stacy is participating in a local psychology experiment in which the research assistant asks Stacy to hold two pencils in front of her and touch the tips together. She then asks Stacy to do this with one eye closed. Stacy finds this terribly difficult, which demonstrates the importance of:

accommodate

Talia is 45 years old. She has started to notice that newspaper print is too small for her to read. Talia needs reading glasses because the lenses of her eyes are less able to adjust, or _____.

relative height

Tammy draws a picture in which the mountains are closer to the top of her paper than the nearby trees in her picture. This is an example of the monocular distance cue known as:

blindsight.

That visual information can be processed without conscious awareness is BEST illustrated by: