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Which pairing of name and property of light is correct? A) Helmholtz; particle nature (photon) |
D. Einstein; wave packet (photon) |
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The change in the shape of the lens in order to focus on a visual image is known as_______________. A) convergence |
B. Visual accomodation |
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What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup? A) types of sound that most people can detect |
B. Tiny bones located in the middle ear |
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Analyzing smaller features and building up to a complete perception is called ________________. A) hypothesis formation |
C. Bottom-up processing |
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The tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related is known as ___________. A) contiguity |
A. Contiguity |
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What is the pupil of the eye? A) It is the small opening in the center of the eye. |
A. It is the small opening in the center of the eye |
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An alien from outer space was just captured. Scientists take turns examining the creature. At a press conference, one of the scientists reports that the alien can hear frequencies between 10,000 and 30,000 Hz. How does the alien’s ability to detect sound compare to a human being’s ability? A) Humans can detect higher frequencies than the alien. |
B. The alien can detect higher frequencies, but its hearing is not as acute at lower frequencies. |
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Because of what you have learned about sensory adaptation, you might think that if you stared at a picture for a long period of time, the image you see would eventually fade. This would be the case if not for the tiny vibrations of your eye called ______________. A) habituation movements |
C. Microsaccades |
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The place theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the __________. A) size of the hair cells that are stimulated |
D. specific hair cells that are stimulated |
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In people who have been blind since birth and who then have had their sight restored, size constancy _____________. A) is slightly limited |
B. Is absent or severely limited |
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If an artist were to blend red, green, and blue lights together by focusing lights of those three colors on one common spot, the result would look _________. A) black |
D. Like white light |
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The sense of smell is also known as __________. A) olfaction |
A. Olfaction |
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The illusion based on the concept that most people live in a world with lots of buildings and corners is the _________. A) Poggendorf illusion |
B. Müller-Lyer illusion |
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Continuity is the tendency _________________. A) to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping |
D. To perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern |
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Closure is the tendency _________________. A) to complete figures that are incomplete |
A. To complete figures that are incomplete |
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We can see a candle flame at 30 miles on a clear, dark night, and we can hear the tick of a watch 20 feet away in a quiet room. These two facts are examples of ____________. A) difference threshold |
D. Absolute thresholds |
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When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all—the sensation is gone. What happens? A) habituation |
A. Habituation |
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Amy’s school records describe her as a monochromat. What can we assume about Amy’s perceptual abilities? A) She does not see color. |
A. She does not see color |
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Which is the newest of the five basic tastes to be discovered? A) sour |
B. Umami or brothy |
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People’s tendency to perceive a thing a certain way because their previous experiences or expectations influence them is called _______________. A) telepathy |
C. Perpetual expectancy |
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The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves is called __________________. A) transmutation |
B. Sensory adaptation |
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The average person’s skin is about ________. A) 40 square feet in size |
B. 20 square feet in size |
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The principle that the just noticeable difference of any given sense is a constant fraction or proportion of the stimulus being judged is called ______. A) the opponent-process principle |
C. Weber’s law |
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The eardrum is also called the ____________________. A) tympanic membrane |
A. Tympanic membrane |
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The fovea is made up of ______. A) mostly cones with some rods |
D. All cones and no rods |
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A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called _________. A) brightness constancy |
A. Brightness constancy |
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Proximity is the tendency _________________. C) to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern |
D. To perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping |
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Which is the best description of the kinesthetic sense? A) It has to do with your location as compared to the position of the sun. |
C. It has to do with the location of body parts in relation to the ground and to each other. |
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Laverne looks at the tongue of her friend and sees all kinds of bumps on her tongue. "Girl," she says, "you sure have a lot of _____________." A) papillae |
A. Papillae |
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The trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision are not in conflict because each corresponds to ______. A) a different portion of the spectrum |
C. A different stage of visual processing |
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The outermost part of the ear is called the _______________. A) tympanic membrane |
C. Pinna |
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Approximately how many taste receptors are located on each taste bud? A) 500 |
B. 20 |
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Which of the following is a characteristic of both light waves and sound waves? A) hue |
D. Wavelength |
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Knowledge of future events is called ______. A) telekinesis |
D. Precognition |
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In the process known as_____________, sensory receptors become less sensitive to repeated presentations of the same stimulus. A) discrimination |
B. Sensory adaptation |
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Which of the following describes what happens if you trace an auditory stimulus from the time it first reaches the ear until it arrives at the brain? A) The auditory nerve joins with the nasal nerve to produce an input to the olfactory lobe. |
D. The outer ear (pinna) gathers sound waves and funnels them down the auditory canal striking the eardrum. |
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The lowest stimulus intensity required for detection is the ______ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ______. A) absolute threshold; difference threshold |
A. Absolute threshold; difference threshold |
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The aspect of color that corresponds to names such as red, green, and blue is ______. A) hue |
A. Hue |
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What is the basic function of the outer ear? A) to protect the hair cells |
D. To concentrate and funnel sound waves to the eardrum |
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Receptor cells in the retina responsible for night vision are ______. A) bipolar cells |
B. Rods |
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A sound mixer is impressed by the new equipment that was just installed in his recording studio. He says that now he will be able to help singers and musicians produce better CDs because he can eliminate unneeded and undesired wavelengths. What term describes the characteristic of sounds waves that the sound mixer is now able to alter? A) saturation |
B. Frequency |
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Which of the following occurs when because one object appears to be blocking another object, the viewer assumes that the blocked object is farther away? A) linear perspective |
B. Overlap |
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Which is the best description of the vestibular senses? A) They have to do with your location as compared to the position of the sun. |
B. They have to do with movement and body position |
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Texture gradient refers to the fact that texture appears to become ______. A) more detailed as brightness increases |
D. Less detailed in the distance |
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Each olfactory receptor cell has a half dozen to a dozen little hairs that project out. These are called ______________. A) olfactory rods |
B. Cilia |
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If a person hears a tone of 300 Hz, three groups of neurons take turns sending the message to the brain—the first group for the first 100 Hz, the second group for the next 100 Hz, and a third for the next 100 Hz. This principle is known as the _________________. A) volley principle |
A. Volley principle |
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The best explanation of the moon illusion is ___________. A) the top-down processing hypothesis |
B. The apparent distance hypothesis |
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The smallest amount of a particular stimulus required to produce any sensation at all in the person to whom the stimulus is presented is the ______. A) minimum threshold |
C. Absolute threshold |
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Joachim and Maricella are going for a romantic walk in the park after an afternoon storm. Maricella looks up in the sky and sees a rainbow. She exclaims, "How beautiful!" Joachim, being something of a geek, might correctly say ______________________ A) All of these things would be true if Joachim said them. |
A. All of these things would be true if Joachim said them. |
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The place theory of pitch was suggested by __________. A) Hering |
B. Helmholtz |
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