After having your picture taken with a yellow flash, you momentarily see blue sports floating before your eyes. This phenomenon is best explained by:
Small distortions in the eye’s shape are most likely to affect:
The McGurk effect best illustrates:
The structure of that transduces sound vibrations into nerve impulses is the:
Television sets are able to recreate the entire visible spectrum by additively mixing three primary colors. This process is similar to the view of human color vision called:
Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:
Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:
While finger painting, Iqbal mixed yellow paint and blue paint and ended up with green, an example of:
Which cells for visual processing are located closest to the back of the retina?
The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
Waqas was having his hearing tested and a number of the tones that were presented were so faint he was not able to detect them. These faint sounds would:
The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:
The text’s illustration of the police officer’s faulty “eyewitness” identification is an example of:
Attention is aroused by:
The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color, or form is known as;
Receptors for the kinesthetic sense are found in the:
Which of the following is considered a monocular cure for depth?
Inductive reasoning goes from the specific to the general. Which of the following is analogous to inductive reasoning?
The underlying mechanism for perceptual expectancies is:
Closure, nearness, similarity, and continuation are categories of:
The sensation of his results from the simultaneous stimulation of adjacent________sports on the skin.
Which of the following pain control techniques is emphasized in the Lamaze method of childbirth training?
The barn owl’s right ear opens slightly upward while its left ear opens slightly downward. This asymmetry is most useful for enabling the owl to detect the________of a sound.
The fact that objects that are near each other tend to be grouped together is known as:
Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:
The fact that that we can walk and chew gun at the same time illustrates that:
Patients’ negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrate the importance of:
When travelling car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects. This is called:
Internal standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as:
When infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually:
Illusions are:
Limen refers to:
The process where the lens of the eye changes shape is called:
Frequency is to_amplitude is to_________.
What sensory organs responsible for balance are also related to motion sickness?
All of the following are parts of the human eye EXCEPT:
Which part of the eye acts like the film in a camera?
The smallest, weakest stimulus that an organism can detect is known as the_______threshold.
The absolute threshold for touch is_________?
Hallucinations are different from illusions in that hallucinations are:
Weber’s law states that the just Noticeable Difference between stimuli is a (n):
The visually perceived distance between ourselves and an object provides an important cue for our perception of the object’s:
Which stimulus is closer to the observer?
Christina was skiing down an intermediate run when the run broke into two separate trails. One trial turned off at a 90-degree angle; the second trail appeared to continue in the same general direction she had been headed if Christina takes the second trial her actions would be consistent with the Gestalt principle of:
The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called:
The fact that the corner of a building thrust toward the viewer looks shorter than an inside corner thrust away from the viewer can be accounted for by the:
The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:
In farsightedness:
The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s:
The visual pathway that has been characterized as____travels through the dorsal stream to the parietal lobes, whereas the pathway that has been labelled the ______travels through the ventral stream to the temporal lobes.
A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:

Sensory adaptation refers to:

A. Diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus
B. Adjustment in the opening of the eye
C. The process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural impulses
D. Changes in the shape of the lens as it focuses on objects

Correct Answer: Diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus ✔

Last Updated: May 02, 2024