PSYC 333 – Sensation and Perception – Psychology course study material
Articulator - ANS ✔✔The structure involved in speech production, such as the tongue, lips,
teeth, jaw, and soft palate.
Hyperpolarization - ANS ✔✔when the inside of a neuron becomes more negative
Depolarization - ANS ✔✔when the inside of a neuron becomes more positive.
Mach bands - ANS ✔✔illusory light and dark bands near a light-dark border
Phenomenological method - ANS ✔✔Method of determining the relationship between stimuli
and perception in which the observer describes what he or she perceives.
dual-task procedure - ANS ✔✔An experimental procedure in which subjects are required to
carry out simultaneously a central task that demands attention and a peripheral task that
involves making a decision about the contents of a scene.
The important finding of Carrasco et al.'s (2004) research was that - ANS ✔✔The attended-to
grating is perceived to have a higher contrast than another, identical grating.
"learning from past experiences" as a factor involved in attention was demonstrated by shinoda
et al.(2001) ], who showed that drivers are more likely to detect stop signs when they were
positioned... - ANS ✔✔at the intersection
How many milliseconds do humans need to get the gist of a scene? - ANS ✔✔250 milliseconds
Structuralists would most likely endorse which statement - ANS ✔✔Perceptions can be
explained by the sensations that make them up
, Gauthier et al.'s Greeble finding is consistent with what hypothesis. - ANS ✔✔Expertise
An area in the ________ called the ________ is specialized to recognize faces. - ANS
✔✔Temporal lobe; FFA
Fovea - ANS ✔✔A small area in the human retina that contains only cone receptors. Located on
the line of sight, so that when a person looks at an object, the center of its image falls
exploratory procedures (EPs) - ANS ✔✔People's movements of their hands and fingers while
they are identifying three-dimensional objects by touch.
false alarm - ANS ✔✔the subject perceived a signal when none was present
Hyperopia (farsightedness) - ANS ✔✔Condition in which a person can see things in the distance
but has trouble seeing at close range.
gate-control theory - ANS ✔✔Melzack and Wall's idea that perception of pain is controlled by a
neural circuit that takes into account the relative amount of activity in nociceptors,
mechanoreceptors, and central signals. This model has been used to explain how pain can be
influenced by factors in addition to stimulation of receptors in the skin.
accommodation - ANS ✔✔In vision, bringing objects located at different distances into focus by
changing the shape of the lens.
acoustic signal - ANS ✔✔The pattern of frequencies and intensities of the sound stimulus.
Articulator - ANS ✔✔The structure involved in speech production, such as the tongue, lips,
teeth, jaw, and soft palate.
Hyperpolarization - ANS ✔✔when the inside of a neuron becomes more negative
Depolarization - ANS ✔✔when the inside of a neuron becomes more positive.
Mach bands - ANS ✔✔illusory light and dark bands near a light-dark border
Phenomenological method - ANS ✔✔Method of determining the relationship between stimuli
and perception in which the observer describes what he or she perceives.
dual-task procedure - ANS ✔✔An experimental procedure in which subjects are required to
carry out simultaneously a central task that demands attention and a peripheral task that
involves making a decision about the contents of a scene.
The important finding of Carrasco et al.'s (2004) research was that - ANS ✔✔The attended-to
grating is perceived to have a higher contrast than another, identical grating.
"learning from past experiences" as a factor involved in attention was demonstrated by shinoda
et al.(2001) ], who showed that drivers are more likely to detect stop signs when they were
positioned... - ANS ✔✔at the intersection
How many milliseconds do humans need to get the gist of a scene? - ANS ✔✔250 milliseconds
Structuralists would most likely endorse which statement - ANS ✔✔Perceptions can be
explained by the sensations that make them up
, Gauthier et al.'s Greeble finding is consistent with what hypothesis. - ANS ✔✔Expertise
An area in the ________ called the ________ is specialized to recognize faces. - ANS
✔✔Temporal lobe; FFA
Fovea - ANS ✔✔A small area in the human retina that contains only cone receptors. Located on
the line of sight, so that when a person looks at an object, the center of its image falls
exploratory procedures (EPs) - ANS ✔✔People's movements of their hands and fingers while
they are identifying three-dimensional objects by touch.
false alarm - ANS ✔✔the subject perceived a signal when none was present
Hyperopia (farsightedness) - ANS ✔✔Condition in which a person can see things in the distance
but has trouble seeing at close range.
gate-control theory - ANS ✔✔Melzack and Wall's idea that perception of pain is controlled by a
neural circuit that takes into account the relative amount of activity in nociceptors,
mechanoreceptors, and central signals. This model has been used to explain how pain can be
influenced by factors in addition to stimulation of receptors in the skin.
accommodation - ANS ✔✔In vision, bringing objects located at different distances into focus by
changing the shape of the lens.
acoustic signal - ANS ✔✔The pattern of frequencies and intensities of the sound stimulus.
