Unit 3 sensation perception

The mental predisposition to perceive one image  but not the other is 

• Perceptual organization
• Perceptual adaptation 
• Perceptual constancy
• Perceptual set 

A binocular cue that allows for depth perception when images from the two eyes differ

• Relative size

• Color Constancy

• Linear perception

• Retinal Disparity

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates: 

• parallel processing
• accommodation
• sensory adaption
• Weber's Law

As we look at a flower, the intensity, or brightness, of the color we see is related to the light wave’s:

• amplitude
• hue
• length
• placement on the spectrum

The eye’s “blind spot” is related to:

•  light rays focusing too far in front of the retina.
•  light rays focusing too far behind the retina.
•  a cluster of cells around the fovea which contains cones, but no rods.
• an area without receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eye.

Tamika hates the bitter taste of her cough syrup. Which of the following would she find most helpful in minimizing the syrup’s bad taste?

• Tasting something very sweet before taking the cough syrup
• Keeping the syrup in her mouth for several seconds before swallowing it
• Holding her nose while taking the cough syrup
• Gulping the cough syrup so that It misses her tongue

Which gestalt principle says we perceive triangles in this figure when, in fact, there are none.

• Continuation

• Proximity

• Closure

• Figure/Ground

Receptors for Visual Processing, Detect Black, white and gray, important in dim light

• Rods
• Feature Detectors
• Bipolar Cells
• Occipital Cells

Cones and rods are to vision as ________ are to audition.

• Cocheleas
• Hair Cells
• Eardrums
• Oval Windows