Sensation & Perception

Question 1

What photopigment is contained in rods?

Answer 1

Rhodopsin

Question 2

The law of praganz allows us to find complex and specific details and objects, true or false?

Answer 2

False

The law of prognosis says we organize the things we perceive in the simplest or most orderly way possible.

Question 3

What type of motion occurs when a stationary point of light has the appearance of movement against a moving background?

Answer 3

Induced motion

Question 4

What did Frantz experiments demonstrate about preferential looking in babies?

Answer 4

If they look at different stimuli for different periods of time, that means they could tell the difference in objects.
Spent more time looking at one object more than the other, signal preference.
Babies prefer to look at complex objects like faces and patterns, more than uniform objects

Question 5

What brain structures are important for auditory processing?

Answer 5

Inferior colliculus
Medial geniculate nucleus (thalamus)
Auditory cortex (temporal lobe)

Question 6

What brain structure is important for processing

Answer 6

Somatosensory cortex