PSY 5

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

precognition

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of

proximity

Visual information is processed by ganglion cells

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

Damage to the cochlea's hair cells is most likely to affect our

audition

A subliminal message is one that is presented

below one's absolute threshold for awareness

Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the

cerebellum

The wavelength of light determines its

hue

Dissociation has been used as an explanation for

hypnotic pain relief

The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually

large when near horizon

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

linear perspective

In vision, an inverted mirror image of an object is focused on the

retina

Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by

cultural experience.

The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates

perceptual constancy

Our assumptions and expectations often provide a(n) ________ for viewing reality.

perceptual set

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