Sensation and Perception Flashcard

Which type of processing involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge and expectancies?

Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds. This is an example of ________.

Within the visible spectrum, our experience of red is associated with ________ waves of light.

The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe.

Petra walks into a brightly lit Psychology lab to participate in an experiment involving the ability to perceive the colors of the rainbow. Which photoreceptors will be most useful during this experiment?

Vinnie is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The ________ sense helps keep him balanced so he has less chance of falling over.

Why are olfaction and gustation called chemical senses?

Which of the following is the best example of your kinesthetic sense?
Touching your nose with your eyes closed, Maintaining balance in your chair, Detecting both sweet and sour in a beverage, Smelling the soup that is cooking for dinner

When you listen to loud music, the sound waves cause your _________ to vibrate first.

Which school of thinking in psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?