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| Of the four distinct skin senses, the only one that has definable receptors is |
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| The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is |
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| The receptors for taste are located in the |
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| The inner ear contains receptors for |
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| audition and the vestibular sense |
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| According to the opponent-processing theory |
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| neurons involved in color vision are stimulated by one color's wavelenght and inhibited by another's |
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| What enables you to feel yourself wiggling your toes even with your eyes closes? |
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| Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detectors in the visual |
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| the jnd for any stimulus is a constant proportion |
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| the principle that one sense may influence another is |
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| The correct order of the structures through which light passes after entering the eye is |
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| cornea, pupil, lens retina |
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| In the opponent-process theory, three pairs of processes are |
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| red-green, blue-yellow, black-white |
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| Wavelenght is to ____as _______ is to brightness |
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| Concerning the evidence for ssubliminal stimulation, which of the following is the best answer |
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| all of these statements are true |
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| Which of the following is the most accurate description of how we process color? |
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| Color processing occurs in 2 stages 1) a three-color system in the retina and 2) opponent-process cells en route to the visual cortex |
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| One reason that your ability to detect fine visual details is the greatest when scenes are focused on the fovea of your retina is that |
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| many cones, which are clustered in the fovea, have individual bipolar cells to relay their information to the cortex |
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| Given normal sensory ability, a person standing atop a mountain on a dark clear night can see a candle flame atop a mountain 30 miles away. This is a description of vision's |
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| The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called |
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| Which of the following statements is consistent with Gestalt theory of perception? |
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| The mind organizes sensations into meaningful perceptions |
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| Experiments with distorted visual environments demonstrate that |
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| humans adapt readily, while lower animals typically do not |
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| The phenomenon that refers to the ways in which an individual's expectations influence perception is called |
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| According to the philosopher ____, we learn to perceive the world. |
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| The phenomenon of size constancy is bases on the close connection between an object's perceived ______ and its perceived ______ |
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| Which of the following statements best describes the effects of sensory restriction? |
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| It has more damaging effects when experienced during infancy |
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| Selective attention is most accurately defined as |
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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. |
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| Psychologists who study ESP are called |
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| The depth cue that occurs when we watch stable objects at different distances as we are moving is |
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| Which of the following statements concerning ESP is true? |
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| Most research psychologists are skeptical of the claims of defenders of ESP |
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| Each time you see your car, it projects a different image on the retinas of your eyes, yet you do not perceive it as changing. This is because of |
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| Studies of the visual cliff have provided evidence that much of depth perception is |
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| All of the following are laws of perceptual organization EXCEPT |
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| You probably perceive the diagram above as three separate objects due to the principle of |
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| _____ processing refers to how our knowledge and expectations influence perception |
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| The place theory of pitch perception cannot account for how we hear |
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