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Introduction to Sensation and Perception explores the fundamental processes by which humans detect and interpret information from the environment. This course examines the anatomy and physiology of sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, and the psychological mechanisms involved in transforming physical stimuli into meaningful experiences. Students will learn about the thresholds and limitations of human perception, illusions, and the influence of attention and context on sensory interpretation. The course also discusses experimental methods used to study sensation and perception, providing a foundation for understanding how we experience the world around us.
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Sensation and Perception 2nd Edition by Bennett
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Chapter 1: What Is Perception
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Q1) Human beings have only five senses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The view that perceptions are created using information from our senses and cognitive processes is known as the ______ view.
A)environmental
B)direct perception
C)constructivist
D)gestalt
Answer: C
Q3) A car driver is making a turn.He is likely to think an approaching school bus is farther away than it is.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The computational approach builds on the information-processing approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Permanent hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea or auditory nerve is called ______ hearing loss.
A)sensorineural
B)conductive
C)innate
D)bichromal
Answer: A
Q2) Two observers make different judgments in a signal-detection experiment even though their sensitivity is identical.This may be the result of different criterion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In signal detection analysis, a false alarm is an error that occurs when a nonsignal is mistaken for a target signal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
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Q1) Compare and contrast wet macular degeneration and dry macular degeneration.Be sure to discuss at least one commonality and at least one difference.
Answer: Both wet and dry macular degeneration involve the destruction of the fovea and surrounding area.Both result in a blind spot that develops as the macular region is destroyed.The less-common form, wet macular degeneration, results from abnormal growth of blood vessels.It can be treated, leading to some improvement in vision.The more-common form, dry macular degeneration, is caused by the degeneration of cells that produce photopigments.There is currently no treatment.
Q2) A researcher shines a very intense light at 850 nm into the open eyes of a research participant.Under these conditions, the pupil will instantly shrink and accommodation will occur.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Dogs do not perceive the world in color.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
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Q1) One of the least well understood aspects of visual neuroscience is ______.
A)the organization of neuronal space within area V1
B)how the dorsal pathway travels from the occipital cortex and the parietal cortex
C)where the different visual pathways converge to form a single phenomenological experience
D)why blindsight does not occur in people with macular degeneration
Q2) Spared visual function in blindsight is likely associated with ______.
A)touch and audition
B)the 10% of optic nerve fibers that travel to the superior colliculus
C)spared visual function from cells within V4 and V5
D)memory and prediction
Q3) The dorsal pathway is known as the "what" pathway, whereas the ventral pathway is known as the "where" pathway.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One explanation of blindsight is that it arises from spared function in the superior colliculus.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Object Perception
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Q1) V4 is an area of the brain involved in the recognition of specific faces for specific people.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You encounter four battery-powered toys moving in a small corral.Each toy is a made up of multiple parts: a car in which four figures are riding.All the parts for each toy are the same color, and each toy has its own distinct color.One toy is pink, one is blue, one is green, and one is red.Use gestalt laws of perceptual grouping to explain how your brain recognizes the figures that make each toy as a distinct whole.
Q3) What is one way that the environment can make object perception more challenging? Use an example to illustrate your answer.
Q4) Gestalt psychology is a school of psychologists who believe that ______.
A)human perception focuses on the smallest piece
B)the human brain lacks self-organizing tendencies
C)human perception focuses on the big picture
D)the human brain must rely on unconscious inference
Q5) Geons are associated with recognition by components.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Color Perception
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Q1) That the color of any light is determined by the output of the three cone systems in our retinae is known as the ______ theory of color vision.
A)opponent
B)competitive
C)Hering-Osbourne
D)trichromatic
Q2) An object appears red despite the fact that it is illuminated by a green light or a yellow light.This phenomenon is known as ______.
A)color constancy
B)lightness constancy
C)color invariance
D)lightness invariance
Q3) What theory proposes that all colors on the color circle can be represented by the following pairs of opposing mechanisms: blue-yellow, red-green, and black-white?
A)opponent-process theory of color vision
B)competitive theory of color vision
C)Hering-Osbourne theory of color vision
D)trichromatic theory of color vision
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Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
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Q1) When you are holding your hand out at arm's length and looking at your thumb, the image of your thumb falls on ______ on each of your retinae.
A)corresponding points
B)noncorresponding points
C)the horoptic perimeter
D)the locus of disparity
Q2) The inward rotation of the eyes when looking at closer objects is known as ______, and the process of adjusting the lens of the eye so that both near and far objects can be seen clearly is known as ______.
A)accommodation; monocular inference
B)vergence; accommodation
C)monocular inference; vergence
D)random-dot stereopsis; monocular inference
Q3) The moon illusion is considered a size illusion because the moon is a huge object but we see it as an object about the size of a fingernail.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how vergence relates to the distance of objects.
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Chapter 8: Movement and Action
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Q1) Warren, Kay, Zosh, Duchon, and Sahuc (2001) controlled the optic flow pattern that participants were viewing while walking in a specially designed room.Participants were asked to walk toward a goal: a red line visible in the virtual reality setup.They found that ______.
A)when the researchers slowed or sped up the optic flow pattern, participants adjusted their walking to be consistent with their goal of making it to the red line
B)when the researchers introduced interference into flow patterns, participants' motion became unsteady
C)optic flow was a direct result of the pattern of eye movements
D)optic flow was a direct result of an object moving back as a person approaches it
Q2) You are watching a small plane move across the sky from quite a distance.The eye movements you are making are known as ______.
A)saccades
B)motion saccades
C)smooth pursuit eye movements
D)beta motion movements
Q3) How do people infer form from the point-light walker display?
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Chapter 9: Visual Attention
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Q1) Rapid serial visual presentation paradigm is a method of ______.
A)studying attention in which a series of stimuli appear rapidly in time at the same point in visual space
B)quickly inducing change blindness effects, even when the attentional demands are relatively weak
C)studying the effects of divided attention during visual search procedures
D)demonstrating blindsight ability, even though the stimuli appear rapidly
Q2) How does binocular rivalry demonstrate the top-down processing of perception?
Q3) Simons and Levin (1997) conducted a field experiment in which participants were chosen at random.In the experiment, an experimenter posing as a tourist asked a person on campus for directions.When the experimenter asking the question was changed, the researchers found that ______.
A)nearly 50% of the participants failed to notice the change from one person to another
B)nearly 100% of the participants noticed the change from one person to another
C)nearly 100% of the participants failed to notice the change from one person to another D)the participants were surprised when the experimenter was suddenly someone of a different gender
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Chapter 10: The Auditory System
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Q1) When you hold your nose and blow, the ______ open to release pressure.
A)Eustachian tubes
B)tympanic membranes
C)cochlear windows
D)ossicle formation
Q2) How can an audiometer identify hearing loss?
A)By presenting harmonics to a patient, the audiometer can determine at what decibels, if any, hearing impairment happens.
B)By presenting pure tones to a patient, the audiometer can determine at what frequencies, if any, hearing impairment happens.
C)By presenting harmonics to a patient, the audiometer can determine at what frequencies, if any, hearing impairment happens.
D)By presenting pure tones to a patient, the audiometer can determine at what decibels, if any, hearing impairment happens.
Q3) The organ of Corti is the structure along the basilar membrane that contains the hair cells that transduce sound into a neural signal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
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Q1) Which of the following is an accurate statement about the hearing of infants?
A)Infants will respond similarly to sounds they heard in utero and sounds they did not.
B)Infants have higher thresholds across the frequency range than young adults.
C)Infants by the age of one month are tuned to separate the sources of sounds in any auditory input.
D)Two-day-old infants can recognize the voices of their own mothers relative to the voices of other mothers.
Q2) The Symphony Hall in Boston has excellent acoustics.Considering this, the hall probably ______.
A)reduces the reverberation of higher frequencies
B)has a reverberation time of six seconds
C)reduces the reverberation of lower frequencies
D)has a reverberation time of ten seconds
Q3) The medial geniculate nucleus is a structure in the brainstem that receives auditory input from the lateral geniculate nucleus and sends output to the superior olive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain spatial segregation and give an example.
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Chapter 12: Speech Perception
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Q1) Mattys, Barden, and Samuel (2014) had people simultaneously perform a listening task and a secondary visual task.As the secondary task became more difficult, ______.
A)there was an attenuation of the McGurk effect
B)the phonemic restoration effect grew stronger
C)participants found it increasingly hard to understand what they were hearing
D)the impact of coarticulation on the participants became more pronounced
Q2) Imagine that you are conducting research into speech perception.You have just conducted an experiment in which participants watched you saying monosyllabic sounds while the participants listened to someone else's voice over headphones.The voice they were listening to sometimes matched the sounds that you were saying, but sometimes the voice over the headphones did not match what you were saying.Your participants reported hearing the sounds that they saw you utter, even when the voice in the headphones did not match what you were actually saying.Your results provide support for a ______ theory of speech perception.
A)general-mechanism
B)phoneme
C)motor
D)special-mechanism
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Chapter 13: Music Perception
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Q1) Two tones that can be expressed as a simple ratio of each other tend to sound pleasant when played together.This relates to the concept of ______.
A)consonance
B)dissonance
C)assonance
D)convergence
Q2) Ivan wants to create a composition for his metal band that makes listeners feel a sense that something is wrong by making his notes sound as though they really do not fit together.He is creating ______.
A)consonance
B)assonance
C)divergence
D)dissonance
Q3) Select all that apply.Western music traditions include ______.
A)music as diverse as rock music and classical music
B)the use of the same scale system across different musical genres
C)a common means of notating music
D)different scales related to different seasons
Q4) Describe the relationship between pitch and frequency.
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Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
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Q1) Passive electroreception is the ability to generate electric fields and then detect disturbances or changes to those electric field caused by external events.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Endogenous opioids work by acting as ______.
A)sedatives
B)ointments
C)stimulants
D)analgesics
Q3) Amy falls into a river and breaks her leg.Despite intense pain, she swims out of the river and walks to safety because she knows if she doesn't get inside before dark, she is likely to freeze to death.Briefly explain what is going on in Amy's body that enables her to reach safety despite experiencing severe pain.
Q4) FAII mechanoreceptors are fast-adapting receptors with Pacinian corpuscle endings and large receptive fields, more widely distributed and deeper in the skin.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste
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Q1) Information in the olfactory bulb is organized by ______.
A)spatial information of where the odorants are in external space
B)frequency information concerning the wavelength of the odor
C)temporal information concerning which odors arrived first
D)chemical structure of the odorants
Q2) Natural gas is treated with a substance that gives it a smell in order to ______.
A)easily detect leaks
B)reduce production costs
C)make it less flammable
D)prolong its shelf-life
Q3) Stu cooked two wild pigs over a fire outside his restaurant.The first night, he cooked one of the pigs and told customers the aroma was a wild swamp pig, and most of them asked to sit away from the smoking area because it smelled disgusting.The second night, he cooked the other pig the same way and told customers he was cooking free-range organic pork.Those customers asked to sit nearer the smoking area so they could take in the rich aroma.Briefly explain what has happened to Stu's customers' olfactory perceptions.
Q4) Identify an animal that is microsmatic, and briefly describe what that means, using a person for comparison.
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