Psychology, Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception, Quizzes 1 & 2
1. Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the: cerebellum 2.
Receptor cells in the human eye that are the most sensitive to fine detail are
called: cones
3. Holding a heavy rather than a light clipboard leads people to perceive job
candidates as more important. This best illustrates: embodied cognition
4. Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of: difference thresholds
5. the wavelength of light determines its: hue
6. The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by
which your ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural
impulses is an example of: transduction
7. The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a
characteristic of: afterimages
8. If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for
only a few moments. This best illustrates: sensory adaptation.
9. A subliminal message is one that is presented: below one's absolute
threshold for awareness.
10. The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as
unusually: large when it is near the horizon.
11. Dissociation has been used as an explanation for: hypnotic pain relief.
12. The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item
into separate words best illustrates the principle of: proximity
13. Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's: audition 14.
Normal vision accompanied by prosopagnosia best illustrates the
distinction between: sensation and perception.
15. Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the
capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive
colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These
peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for: parallel
processing
16. Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a
single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.: rods; cones
17. The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form
regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates: perceptual constancy
18. Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to
disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by: cultural
experience.
19. Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races.
This undermines their claims to possess the power of: precognition
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1. Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the: cerebellum 2.
Receptor cells in the human eye that are the most sensitive to fine detail are
called: cones
3. Holding a heavy rather than a light clipboard leads people to perceive job
candidates as more important. This best illustrates: embodied cognition
4. Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of: difference thresholds
5. the wavelength of light determines its: hue
6. The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by
which your ears transform the sound waves from the siren into neural
impulses is an example of: transduction
7. The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a
characteristic of: afterimages
8. If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for
only a few moments. This best illustrates: sensory adaptation.
9. A subliminal message is one that is presented: below one's absolute
threshold for awareness.
10. The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as
unusually: large when it is near the horizon.
11. Dissociation has been used as an explanation for: hypnotic pain relief.
12. The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item
into separate words best illustrates the principle of: proximity
13. Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's: audition 14.
Normal vision accompanied by prosopagnosia best illustrates the
distinction between: sensation and perception.
15. Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the
capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive
colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These
peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for: parallel
processing
16. Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a
single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.: rods; cones
17. The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form
regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates: perceptual constancy
18. Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to
disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by: cultural
experience.
19. Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races.
This undermines their claims to possess the power of: precognition
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