• 01

    __________ is the process through which we detect physical energy from the environment and code that energy as neural signals.

  • 02

    __________ refers to the way we select, organize, and interpret sensory information.

  • 03

    “I’m ready to go,” Olivia told her husband! “I wore a new perfume tonight. I hope you like it!” Olivia’s husband nodded dutifully and told her how nice it smelled, but in truth he couldn’t smell a thing. According to the principles of psychophysics, Olivia was not wearing enough perfume to exceed her husband’s __________.

  • 04

    The __________ threshold is the minimum difference between two stimuli needed to detect the difference 50% of the time.

  • 05

    Sensory __________ carry information as a coded signal from your sensory organs to your brain.

  • 06

    A good friend of yours tells you that he has a new job at a bakery. “Oh man, you are so lucky,” you tell him. “You get to smell that fresh bread and the donuts all day long. I’d LOVE to work there.” Your buddy shakes his head and says, “You know, that’s what I thought, but after I’m there for a few minutes I don’t even smell the baked goods that much anymore.” Because you’ve studied psychology, you know that his loss of responsiveness to the great scents is explained by sensory __________.

  • 07

    Because you are bored one afternoon, you decide to try a little experiment. You open your eye very wide, extend your thumb, and then poke yourself in the eye. Aside from being very foolish and in a lot of pain, you may learn something about your eye when you engage in this masochistic behavior. The very first thing your thumb would touch as it made contact with your eye would be the __________.

  • 08

    The ability of your lens to change its thickness and curvature to adapt to images both near and far is called visual __________.

  • 09

    Color __________ is the tendency to perceive familiar objects as retaining their color despite changes in sensory information.

  • 10

    Which of the following structures is not a part of the outer ear?

  • 11

    It is a commonly known fact that dogs have a much keener sense of smell than do human beings. What is not commonly known, however, is why. Because you have studied psychophysics, you know the answer to this question. What is it?

  • 12

    Compared to our eyesight, the olfactory system of human beings is rather poorly developed. Despite this comparative limitation, human beings are still able to distinguish well over _________ different odors.

  • 13

    The _________ effect is a phenomenon in which selective attention allows a person to concentrate on one voice and ignore many others.

  • 14

    According to recent research conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, what happens to the brain when we attempt to multitask?

  • 15

    _________ processing refers to our use of beliefs, experiences, expectations, or other concepts to shape our view of the world.

  • 16

    The Gestalt principle called the law of pragnanz suggests which of the following about our perceptual tendencies?

  • 17

    If you are handed a coffee cup and instantly see it as a combination of a circle (the base), a cylinder (the sides), and a crescent (the handle), then you are demonstrating the __________ theory of perception.

  • 18

    In a very unusual study of human visual perception, a Japanese psychologists asked students to wear glasses that reversed their visual fields. After several days, their perception adjusted and they were able to carry out complex physical skills that required coordination. After the glasses were removed, they again adjusted back to normal vision. This experiment demonstrated the concept of __________.

  • 19

    In the movie DareDevil, the main character suffered an injury to his eyes, and for the rest of his life was able to “see sounds.” His interpretation of one sort of sensory input as another type of perception demonstrates __________.

  • 20

    Dominic goes to a laboratory to be a subject in a psychological test. In this test, he watches as the words of certain colors are flashed on a computer screen. Sometimes the word is flashed in its own color (e.g., the word “blue” is flashed in a blue font) and sometimes the word is flashed in a different color (e.g., the word “yellow” appears in a green font). This type of test, which can be used to test synesthesia, is called a __________ test.

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