BP 3.2

Which sensory organ processes electromagnetic waves?

• Ear

• Skin

• Eye

• Nose

What type of receptor enables night vision but not color?

• Cones

• Rods

• Ganglia

• Macula

Where are cones most densely packed?

• Retina

• Fovea

• Iris

• Lens

What sensory system processes taste?

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Auditory

• Vestibular

What sense cannot be turned off physically?

• Touch

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

What is true of perceptual processing?

• It reconstructs the environment accurately

• It is the same for every person

• It extracts behaviorally relevant information

• It does not involve interpretation

What does bottom-up processing rely on?

• Past experience

• Motivation

• Incoming sensory data

• Beliefs and goals

Which of the following best illustrates the Gestalt principle of proximity?

• Objects far apart appear as one group

• Objects close together are seen as belonging together

• Random objects forming a circle

• One object drawing attention due to its size

The fovea is responsible for:

• Peripheral vision

• Night vision

• Sharp central vision

• Detecting motion

The area in which a neuron extracts information from the physical world is called:

• Visual field

• Receptor region

• Sensory basin

• Receptive field