Question 1

Discuss Vilayanur Ramachandran's work with phantom pain and his success with tricking the brain of an amputee with a simple mirror.How are his techniques being used today?

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Question 2

The great educator Helen Keller was blind and deaf since her babyhood.She called one of the human senses "the fallen angel of the senses." Which sense was she describing? Cite evidence to support why you agree or disagree with her statement.

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Question 3

Testing an infant's perception of depth requires ingenuity,but Gibson and Walk were able to design a procedure in order to test infants on a "visual cliff." Explain how they created a "cliff" and describe the results of their research.

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Question 4

After taking your best friend to the airport,you stay to watch the plane take off.As you watch it,the plane seems to become smaller and smaller.Why is it that you don't perceive the airplane,and your friend,as shrinking? Briefly explain how this works.

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Question 5

In the 1970s,Andrew Weil decided to investigate the claims of Uri Geller,a man who seemed to be able to bend keys and start broken watches without any physical contact with them.What experiences led Weil to accept and then to reject Uri Geller's claims?

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Question 6

The authors of your textbook note that variety is not only the spice of life,it also is the essence of sensation.Explain what they mean in detail,giving two specific examples to illustrate your points.

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Question 7

Describe the course of hearing from the time a sound wave passes into the outer ear until the time that a signal is passed along to the auditory nerve.

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Question 8

In sensory deprivation studies,researchers were interested in what would happen if our senses adapted to most incoming stimuli.Explain the findings and the procedural limitations of the early studies in sensory deprivation.What has been revealed by later research? How do think that you would respond if you spent an hour alone in a "flotation tank"?

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Question 9

When Casey sees eight candies on the table that are placed like this ☼☼☼☼ ☼☼☼☼ she asks which two children get the candies.How would a Gestalt psychologist explain Casey's tendency to view the candy in two groups rather than as eight separate candies?

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Question 10

If the sensory nerves all use exactly the same form of communication,how,then,do we experience so many different kinds of sensation? Include the work of the German physiologist Johannes Müller in your essay.

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Question 11

Rita's favorite navy-blue sweater is perceived as maintaining its hue whether Rita is outdoors or indoors.Yet the wavelengths of light reaching Rita's eyes do change as the illumination changes.How does this occur?

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Question 12

Explain the concept of sensory crossover.For most of us,the senses remain separate.Describe the rare condition called synesthesia.

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Question 13

The fact that some perceptual processes appear to be innate doesn't mean that all people perceive the world in the same way.List four psychological factors that can influence what we perceive and how we perceive it.

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Question 14

Aiko invites her American friends to her home and the raw oysters,raw smoked salmon,and raw herring that she serves are well received.But when Aiko's guests notice the raw sea urchin and the raw octopus they get squeamish,even after she explains that they taste good! Explain the differences in taste preferences between Aiko and her American friends.

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Question 15

An extreme version of pain without injury occurs in phantom pain.Explain the basic concepts of the gate-control theory and how the strange phenomenon of phantom pain might be explained in accordance with that theory.

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Question 16

Contrast the reactions of adults who were born deaf and then received cochlear implants to the reactions of adults who became deaf later in life and then received the implants.

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Question 17

Batters simply go batty when Ryan steps onto the pitcher's mound because they dread his rising fastball and his breaking curveball.What do these pitches look like? How might this perceptual illusion occur?

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Question 18

What limitations of the procedures to measure absolute thresholds and difference thresholds were addressed by signal detection theory? Explain the way in which signal detection theory divides the detection of a sensory signal into two processes,giving specific details about the possible outcomes based on these processes.How would this method have a real-world application in the training of air-traffic controllers?

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Question 19

Like human infants,kittens are born with the ability to detect horizontal lines and vertical lines.In one famous study,kittens were exposed to either vertical or horizontal black and white stripes.Special collars kept them from seeing anything else,even their own bodies.Describe the results of this research study.

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Question 20

Normally,kinesthesis and equilibrium work together to give us a sense of our own physical reality.But when they do not,the consequences are profound.What happened to Christina's experience of physical reality after the inflammation that damaged her kinesthetic nerve fibers?

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Quiz 6: Exstintion: Sensation and Perception