Fact or Falsehood

1. Fact or Falsehood? Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception

2. Advertisers can powerfully shape our buying habits through subliminal messages. True False False, page 182False, page 182

3. If we stare at a green square for a while and then look at a white sheet of paper, we see red. True False True, page 192True, page 192

4. Touching adjacent cold and pressure spots triggers a sense of wetness. True False True, page 197True, page 197

5. People who are born without the ability to feel pain may die by early adulthood. True False True, page 198True, page 198

6. Without their smells, a cold cup of coffee may be hard to distinguish from a glass of red wine. True False True, page 202True, page 202

7. Infants just learning to crawl do not perceive depth. True False False, page 207False, page 207

8. Persons who have sight in only one eye are totally unable to gauge distances. True False False, page 208False, page 208

9. A person who is born blind but gains sight as an adult cannot recognize objects that were familiar by touch. True False True, pages 213-214True, pages 213-214

10. If required to look through a pair of glasses that turns the world upside down, we soon adapt and coordinate our movements without difficulty. True False True, page 214True, page 214

11. Laboratory evidence clearly indicates that some people do have ESP. True False False, page 219False, page 219