Psych chapter 5
What is vertigo?
spinning sensation
Blank amplitudes are associated with a blank sounds
Higher, louder
Blank amplitudes are associated with blank sounds
Higher, louder
Which part of the eye holds eye color
Iris
How does cochlear implant enable the deaf to hear
It receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain
How does the term Gestalt relate to the psychological study of perception?
Perception involves more than simply combining sensory stimuli; therefore, perception is studied as Gestalt.
Vinny is standing on one leg with his arms in the air the ___ Since he helps him balance so he has less chance of going over
Vestibular
Read the following two sentences (1) gre eng rass gr ow son themoun rain. (2)Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately but the first sentence does not
We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters and we receive words because there are spaces between each word
Petra walks into a brightly lit Psychology lab to participate in an experiment involving the ability to perceive the colors of the rainbow. Which photoreceptors will be most useful during this experiment?
cones
What is described by the concept of perception
how sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced
Catherine is at a crowded baseball game when she loses track of her son, Nick. Despite the loud cheering and noise of the crowd, she can pinpoint his location when he calls for her because she can distinguish the sound of his voice from the all the other voices. This illustrates ________ theory.
signal detection
Suppose you're watching a movie on a large screen. For a fraction of a second the words drink all the flash on the screen you do not receive the words drink cola because it is beyond your absolute threshold. In this example the message to Drink cola is an example of
Subliminal message
