Chapter 4

Question 1

Pressure, temp, and pain are examples of?

Answer 1

The skin senses

Question 2

What does a sound’s pitch depend upon?

Answer 2

It’s frequency

Question 3

What type of cues are perspective and texture gradient?

Answer 3

Monocular cues

Question 4

Sensitive surface of the eye that acts like the film in a camera?

Answer 4

Retina

Question 5

Process where we interpret sensory stimulation?

Answer 5

Perception

Question 6

Name of neuron that is sensitive to light?

Answer 6

Photoreceptors

Question 7

Tendency to perceive a whole figure even when there are gaps in sensory input?

Answer 7

Closure

Question 8

What causes sensorineural deafness?

Answer 8

Damage to the inner ear

Question 9

Illusion of movement produced by rapid progression of images?

Answer 9

Stroboscopic motion

Question 10

Transmits neural impulses from the cochlea to the brain

Answer 10

Auditory nerve

Question 11

Process by which we become more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli?

Answer 11

Sensory adaptation

Question 12

Requires two eyes to be perceived?

Answer 12

Binocular cues

Question 13

Which stimulus tests the absolute threshold of vision?

Answer 13

A Candle in a dark room

Question 14

Opening in the colored part of the eye?

Answer 14

Pupil

Question 15

What is the afterimage of a color?

Answer 15

Complementary color

Question 16

What are the main colors of the vision spectrum?

Answer 16

R.O.Y. G. B.I.V

Question 17

What is convergence an example of?

Answer 17

Binocular cues

Question 18

Sense that helps people know the position and motion their body parts are in with their eyes closed?

Answer 18

Kinesthesis

Question 19

What does signal-detection theory take into account?

Answer 19

How psychological factors affect perception

Question 20

What is perception?

Answer 20

Process through which we interpret sensory stimulation.