Unit 5 Handy Hints

Unit 5
Sense and Perception Chapters 5 and 6
Handy Hints

1. What is absolute threshold and how can psychological factors effect these thresholds?


2. Why do we become near sighted or longsighted?


3. Understand Weber’s Law and be able to do calculations.


4. What is the difference between sensory restriction and sensory adaptation?


5. Which receptor works best in dim light?


6. What are the theories of color perception?


7. Where do we hear?


8. The place theory explains high pitch sound well but it does not explain ____________.


9. Older people have trouble hearing ____________ sounds


10. In the gate theory, what “closes” the gate?


11. What is the difference between feature detection and parallel processing?


12. How do we maintain balance?


13. What is this sense called?


14. What is color constancy?


15. What is sensory adaptation? Can you give examples?


16. Most color blind people are ___________. (male or female)


17. Seeing smooth uninterrupted patterns is an example of ___________?


18. Be able to divide all depth cues into monocular and binocular divisions cures.


19. What is the underlying principle of Gestalt?


20. What have experiments on distorted visual environments told us?


21. What is a perceptual set? Give an example.


22. What is a human factors psychologist?


23. What philosopher believed we learn to perceive?


24. Perceiving hazy objects as distant is and example of ___________?


25. What is size constancy?


26. When is sensory restriction most damaging.


27. Who studies ESP?


28. When did we learn from the visual cliff experiment?


29. What changes the curvature of the lens?


30. What controls the size of the pupil?