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| If you can just notice the difference between 10- and 11- pound weights which of the following weights could you differentiate from a 100-pound weight? |
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| A decrease in sensory responsiveness accompanying an unchanging stimulus is called |
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| The receptor of the eye that functions best in dim light is the |
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| The Young-Helmholtz theory proposes that |
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| there are three different types of color-sensitive cones. |
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| Frequency is to pitch as ______ is to _______ |
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| Our experience of pain when we are injured depends on |
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| According to the gate-control theory, a way to alleviate chronic pain would be to stimulate the _________ nerve fibers that ____ the spinal gate |
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| The transduction of length energy into nerve impulses takes place in the |
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| The brain breaks vision into separate dimensions such as color, depth, movement, and form and works on each aspect of simultaneously. This is called |
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| information from the bones, ears, tendons, and joints |
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| One light may appear reddish and another green ish if they differ in |
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| Which of the following explains why a rose appears equally red in bright and dim light? |
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| Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation |
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| finding the cold water of a swimming pool warmer after you have been in it for a while |
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| Most color-deficient people will probably |
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| lack functioning red- or green-sensitive cones |
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| The historical movement associated with the statement "the whole may exceed the sum of its parts" is |
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| Figures tend to be percieved as whole, complete objects, even if spaces or gaps exist in the representation, thus demonstrating the principle of |
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| The figure-ground relationship has demonstrated that |
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| the same stimulus can trigger more than one perception |
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| When we stare at an object, each eye recieves a slightly different image, providing a depth cure known as, |
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| As we move, viewed objects cast changing shapes on our retinas, although we do not perceive the objects as changing. This is part of the phenomenon of |
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| A person claiming to be able to read another's mind is claiming to have the ESP ability of |
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| Which philosopher maintained that knowledge comes from inborn ways of organizing our sensory experiences? |
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| Kittens and monkey reared seeing only diffuse, unpatterned light |
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| later had fifficulty perceiving the shape of objects |
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| Adults who are born blind but later have their vision restored |
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| typically fail to recognize familiar objects |
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| ______ processing refers to how the physical characteristics of stimuli influence their interpretation |
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| Which of the following is NOT a monocular depth cue? |
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| The Moon illusion occurs in part because distance cues at the horizon make the Moon seem |
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| farther away and therefore larger |
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| Figure is to ground as ____ is to _____ |
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| The study of perception is primarily concerned with how we |
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| interpret sensory stimuli |
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| Jack claims that he often has dreams that predict future events. He claims to have the power of |
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| Researchers who investigated telepathy found that |
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| over many studies, neither "senders" nor "receivers" become more accurate |
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| The frequency theory of hearing is better than place theory at explaining our sensation of |
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| The perceptual error in which we fail to see an object when our attention is directed elsewhere is |
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