Chapter 4 - part 7: Our Other Senses

Which sense is important for perception of the positions of the various parts of the body?

What does your kinesthetic system allow you to perceive?

Where would you find receptors for the kinesthetic sense?

A police officer asks Stanley to close his eyes and touch the tip of his nose, using first his right index finger and then his left index finger. What does Stanley rely on to complete this test of coordination?

Where are the receptors for the vestibular sense?

Which of the following parts of the ear has a role in maintaining balance?

Loreen has a bad case of vertigo. She feels like the room is spinning, and she has trouble keeping her balance. Which of the following is most likely to be the location of excess neural activity in Loreen’s case?

You have a severe ear infection. Which of the following is a potential side effect?

Our construction of perceptual hypotheses illustrates which of your text’s unifying themes?

Which of your text’s unifying themes is illustrated by the fact that many people are reluctant to try novel foods from other cultures?

What depth cues must a painter employ in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional reality?

Which type of artists were more concerned with interpreting a viewer’s fleeting perception of reality than with recreating the photographic “reality” of a scene?

Which mechanism does the impressionist technique of pointillism rely on?

Which school of painting reduces reality to combinations of geometric forms laid out in a flat space?

Which organizational principles are evident in the paintings of Cubists?

Which theorist’s influence is reflected in the surrealists’ exploration of the world of dreams and fantasy?

What are M. C. Escher’s paintings, which often include impossible staircases and other structures, viewed as
examples of?

Victor Vasarely’s approach is known as Kinetic Art. How does he use optical illusions in his work?

Belgian artist René Magritte used images of paintings on easels (within his paintings) that appeared to continue
beyond the borders of the canvas. What point was he trying to make?

What does the door-in-the-face technique involve?

Last year Fiona had a yard sale. She marked the prices of items very reasonably, and she refused to reduce
them when people tried to negotiate. This year she had another yard sale, but this time she marked the prices of
items quite high, and then reduced them by 50 percent or more when people asked to negotiate. Fiona was
surprised to find that she made much more money this year. Which of the following may have led people to
purchase a lot from Fiona’s sale this year?

Roberta and Phil have been arrested for vandalism at their school. Given what we know about contrast effects,
what should their defence attorney emphasize in order to get a lighter sentence for Roberta and Phil?

Darcy (for next 5 questions)
Darcy is studying at the kitchen table. Her brothers are watching the hockey game in the living room. When
Darcy first sat down to study, the noise of the game was distracting, but now she doesn’t really notice it at all. As
she reads through her notes, Darcy also doesn’t seem to notice all the little spelling errors she made when she
was writing them down in class. Instead, she reads the words and sentences clearly and is able to focus on the
concepts and examples rather than her mistakes. After a while, Darcy reaches out and grabs her water glass and
takes a drink. Just then, her brothers started yelling when their team scores. Startled, Darcy dropped the glass
onto her baby toe, which sends pain shooting up her leg. Although Darcy is momentarily distracted, she goes
back to her books and is focused on her studies again within about 20 minutes.
Which process allows Darcy to not be distracted by the hockey game?

Which perceptual process allows Darcy to read her notes without noticing small errors?

Which of the following brain areas is critical when Darcy reaches out for her water glass?

Which of the following increases led to Darcy being startled when Darcy’s brothers started yelling?

Which type of nerve fibres were responsible for the immediate sensation when Darcy felt pain in her baby toe?

Complete the following analogy: The visual cortex is to the auditory cortex as the occipital lobe is to the _____.

You’ve been sitting on the couch for a while now; there is music playing in the background, and your cat has
fallen asleep with his head on your arm. You are daydreaming about your upcoming vacation, and you don’t
notice or attend to the sound of the music or the pressure of your cat’s very heavy head. What processes result
in these two types of loss of feeling?

Complete the following analogy: Hue is to pitch as brightness is to _____.