5 Written Questions

1. the study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis
2. the amount you must change a stimulus to detect a difference by a proportion of the original stimulus
3. The ability to perceive something without ordinary sensory information
4. a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
5. in vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

5 Matching Questions

1. perceptual constancy
2. subliminal
3. binocular cues
4. vestibular sense
5. cochlear implant

1. a depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes
2. b perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change
3. c a device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea
4. d below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness
5. e the sense of body movement and position, including the sense of balance

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession
   1. depth perception
   2. kinesthesis
   3. subliminal
   4. phi phenomenon
2. the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
   1. gestalt
   2. visual cliff
   3. subliminal
   4. grouping
3. diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
   1. perceptual adaptation
   2. sensory adaptation
   3. sensory interaction
   4. selective attention
4. the principle that one sense may influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste
   1. sensory adaptation
   2. selective attention
   3. depth perception
   4. sensory interaction
5. the processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision. Contrasts with the step-by-step (serial) processing of most computers and of conscious problem solving.
   1. parapsychology
   2. phi phenomenon
   3. parallel processing
   4. depth perception

5 True/False Questions

1. retinal disparity → the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

   True        False

2. kinesthesis → the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

   True        False

3. gate-control theory → a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

   True        False

4. opponent-process theory → the theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological area that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain.

   True        False

5. depth perception → the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

   True        False