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The idea behind _____ cues is that we can feel the inward movement of the eyes that occurs when the
eyes converge to look at nearby objects, and we feel the tightening of eye muscles that change the
shape of the lens to focus on a nearby object. - correct answer ✔✔oculomotor
Greg is learning how to draw a landscape scene. His instructor notes that objects with their bases closer
to the horizon are usually seen as being more distant. What concept is the instructor describing? -
correct answer ✔✔relative height
Ben is walking along some railroad tracks. He notices that the tracks appear closer together as he looks
farther down the tracks until arriving at a single point. What is Ben experiencing? - correct answer
✔✔perspective convergence
Emily is hiking in the mountains. She takes a break to look out at the horizon and notices the mountains
in the distance are blurry and appear to have a blue tint. What is this called? - correct answer
✔✔atmospheric perspective
Misty is a spectator at a marathon and looks for a friend. There is a large crowd of marathoners this year
and they appear to be more tightly packed together the farther off in the distance she looks. Misty is
experiencing the observation of _____. - correct answer ✔✔texture gradient
Nathan is taking his first train ride. He looks out the window and sees the ground below moving past in a
blur. When he looks in the distance, the trees, bushes, and land seem to be moving more slowly. Nathan
is experiencing _____. - correct answer ✔✔motion parallax
Susan is cross-eyed. What is the term for Susan's condition? - correct answer ✔✔strabismus
Dr. Sims is rearing cats so that their vision alternates between the left and right eyes every other day
during the first 6 months of their lives. After this six-month period of presenting stimuli to just one eye at
a time, Dr. Sims records from neurons in the cat's cortex and finds that (1) these cats have few binocular
neurons, and (2) they are not able to use binocular disparity to perceive depth. What do the results of
, this experiment demonstrate? - correct answer ✔✔the connection between binocular neurons and
perception
Carrie is looking at the poles on a fence row. She knows they are all approximately the same height, even
though they appear to get smaller as she looks farther down the fence row. What is Carrie experiencing
when she knows the fence poles are the same height, even though they appear to get smaller in the
distance? - correct answer ✔✔size constancy
Suppose you are looking at two corners - one from outside a building and one from inside a building. In
both cases, the vertical height is 10 feet, yet the corner inside the building appears to have a greater
vertical height than the corner outside the building. Richard Gregory explains this real-world
demonstration of the Müller-Lyer illusion on the basis of ____. - correct answer ✔✔misapplied size
constancy scaling
Ian is in a band, and has taken the time to learn the ins and outs of the sound system. For example, he
knows that when the diaphragm of a loudspeaker moves back in, a process called _____ occurs. - correct
answer ✔✔rarefaction
Ed is measuring the frequency of sounds in units. What are these units called? - correct answer ✔✔hertz
Ellie is conducting auditory research on pure tones. She is measuring the repetition rate of the tones.
What is another term for what Ellie is measuring? - correct answer ✔✔fundamental frequency
Maelynn is an audiologist. She knows that we are most sensitive to sounds at frequencies between 2,000
and _____ Hz, which is also the range for understanding speech. - correct answer ✔✔4000
The aspect of auditory sensation whose variation is associated with musical melodies is _____. - correct
answer ✔✔pitch
Riley and Aaron are in an orchestra. Riley plays the flute and Aaron plays the oboe. To warm up, they
play the same note at the same loudness, pitch, and duration. Yet the audience can still distinguish
between the two, due to the difference in _____. - correct answer ✔✔timbre
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