Psychology Ch. 4

In the visual system, _____ is the bringing together and integration of what is processed by different neural pathways or cells.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the trichromatic theory of color vision?

The _____, located in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain, is the part of the cerebral cortex involved in sight.

In the auditory system, the bones of the middle ear vibrate by vibrations of the:

In the auditory system, _____ is the perception of a sound wave's amplitude.

_____ is a very subjective interpretation of information received from the sense organs.

According to the _____ theory of color vision, cells in the visual system respond to red-green and blue-yellow colors.

In the context of the opponent-process theory of color vision, afterimages refer to:

In the context of sensory receptors and the brain, a person's ability to read another person's mind is known as _____.

In the auditory system, the _____ is the opening of the inner ear.

In the auditory system, the pinna is the:

According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, how many types of cone receptors are there in the human eye?

In the context of visual processing in the brain, the simultaneous distribution of sensory information across different neural pathways is referred to as:

If a person hears two sounds that fluctuate in intensity, the point at which he or she can detect the contrast in the sounds is referred to as the _____.

What part of the body is most responsible for kinesthetic senses?

A sound wave's _____ is the number of cycles or full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given time interval.

_____ are individual neurons or groups of neurons in the brain's visual system that respond to particular characteristics of a stimulus.

In the auditory system, which of the following is the ear's sensory receptor?

In psychology, the process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information is called _____.

A gestalt is best described as a(n):

In the visual system, the clear membrane just in front of the eye is the _____.

In the context of perception, bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with:

In the context of motion perception, _____ occurs when a person perceives a stationary object as moving.

The _____ is the place on the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye on its way to the brain.

In the auditory system, _____ is the tone saturation, or the perceptual quality, of a sound.

In the context of the structure of the eye, the axons of the ganglion cells make up the _____.

In the visual system, _____ are the receptors in the retina of the eye that are sensitive to light but are not very useful for color vision.

In the auditory system, a sound wave's _____ is the amount of pressure the sound wave produces relative to a standard.

The _____ of the wavelengths of a visual stimulus determines the perceived saturation, or richness, of the stimulus.

In the auditory system, the hammer, anvil, and stirrup are an intricately connected chain of the three smallest _____ in the human body.

The _____ theory of color vision states that color perception is produced by three types of cone receptors in the retina that are particularly sensitive to different, but overlapping, ranges of wavelengths.

A person's predisposition or readiness to perceive something in a particular way is known as _____.