Sensation and Perception

Vibration is crucial to which sense?

• hearing

• sight

• smell

• taste

Problems with the vestibular system would likely cause a person to

• not recognize shapes or colors

• stumble or fall

• fail to identify sound locations

• not be bothered by touching hot objects

If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

• colors

• shapes

• sizes

• distant objects

You see the Statue of Liberty several times as you tour Manhattan. From all angles you know the approximate size of the statue. This is called

• closure

• interposition

• constancy

• convergence

Juan's bag of marbles is twice as heavy as Beth's. If it takes 5 extra marbles to make Beth's bag feel heavier, it will take 10 extra marbles to make Juan's bag feel heavier. This best illustrates

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• sensory adaptation

• closure

Our sense of the position and movement of individual body parts is called

• kinesthesis

• perception

• sensation

• retinal disparity

The "floating finger sausage" represents which concept?

• sensory adaptation

• difference threshold

• retinal disparity

• hallucinations

This picture best illustrates which gestalt grouping principle?

• closure

• continuity

• similarity

This picture best illustrates which monocular depth cue?

• linear perspective

• interposition

• relative height

• motion parallax

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

• Optic Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Auditory (chochlear nerve)
• Sensory Nerve