Invitation to Psychology

186 seNsatioN aNd PercePtioN 6 eDiNBurg, TX, March 15, 2013. A new wave of UFO sightings across the world will be discussed this ...

UFO sightings seem to be on the increase just about everywhere. In February, a boy on a passenger jet bound for Massachusetts wa ...

188 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception (dendrites) of sensory neurons (see Chapter  4). The receptors for vision, hearing, and t ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 189 feel of a kiss. An additional kind of code is there- fore necessary. This second kind of ...

190 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception than the one you currently lug around? We often need to be able to compare two stimuli an ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 191 Yea-sayers will have more hits than naysayers because they are quick to say “it was there ...

192 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception is happening. Reduced sensation can be scary if you are locked in a room for an indefinit ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 193 but we do not see. When people are shown a video of a ball-passing game and are asked to ...

194 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 3 Saturation (colorfulness) is the dimension of visual experience related to the complexi ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 195 contains only cones, clustered densely together. From the center to the periphery, the ra ...

196 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception Why the Visual System is Not a Camera Lo 6.10 Although the eye has often been compared wi ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 197 of objects, from tools to animal predators to chairs, and so far have found no other spec ...

198 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception “color-blind” people are actually color deficient. Usually they cannot distinguish red an ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 199 contrast. However, selective attention—the abil- ity to concentrate on some stimuli and t ...

200 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 4 Continuity. Lines and patterns tend to be per- ceived as continuing in time or space. Y ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 201 amount of space between the two fingers appears to change when you switch eyes. The sligh ...

202 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception you hold a Frisbee directly in front of your face, its image on the retina will be round. ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 203 near edge of a building; the one on the right is like the far corner of a room (see part ...

204 Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception Just as there are size, shape, location, bright- ness, and color constancies, so there ar ...

Chapter 6 Sensation and Perception 205 3 Timbre is the distinguishing quality of a sound. It is the dimension of auditory experi ...