Question 1

Anselmo and Quinta are lying in the grass gazing up at puffy white clouds. "Look!" Quinta says, pointing to a cloud. "That one looks like a lamb." Anselmo sees that the cloud's shape does indeed suggest a lamb. To decide whether the cloud really looked like a lamb, Anselmo had to refer to an internal

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A)  perceptual schema.
B)  cognitive map.
C)  motion parallax.
D)  vestibular apparatus.
E)  retrograde recollection. A

Question 2

Which concept specifically allows us to recognize familiar stimuli under varying conditions and in different contexts?

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A)  Perceptual constancies
B)  The Gestalt laws of perceptual organization
C)  Sensory adaptations
D)  Perceptual continuities

Question 3

The two kinds of sensory capabilities studied in psychophysics are

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A)  the absolute limits of sensitivity to stimuli and sensitivity to changes in stimuli
B)  the functions of the rods and cones
C)  the ability to organize stimuli and the ability to make sense of stimuli
D)  the ability to produce neurotransmitters and the ability to produce hormones

Question 4

Sensorineural deafness is an issue with the neuronal transmission of the sound signals to the parietal lobe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

When vision is restored to adults who have been blind for their entire lives, they typically never fully adjust to the visual world. Examples like these demonstrate the ________.

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A)  importance of environmental influences on development
B)  lack of flexibility of the nervous system
C)  flexibility of the nervous system
D)  importance of critical periods D

Question 6

Hearing aids may correct many forms of conduction deafness, but they do little to rectify problems caused by _________ deafness.

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A)  permanent
B)  congenital
C)  mechanical
D)  nerve

Question 7

Which of the following is not involved in the perception of pain?

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A)  Endorphins
B)  Glial cells
C)  Cytokines
D)  The immune system
E)  Semicircular canals

Question 8

Which of the following happens when hair cells bend?

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A)  Neurotransmitters are released.
B)  They cause fluid in cochlea to make waves.
C)  They amplify sound more than 30 times.
D)  They alert the brain to the presence of feature-detector neurons.

Question 9

If you had myopia, the visual image would fall in front of the

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A)  ganglion cells
B)  rods
C)  cones
D)  bipolar cells
E)  hair cells

Question 10

The central control mechanism has an effect through descending nerve fibres in the spinal cord.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Compared to sensory receptors in the eyes and ears, the senses of gustation and olfaction are somewhat unique in that their receptors are sensitive to ____________ rather than to ___________.

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A)  some form of energy; chemical molecules
B)  sounds; some form of energy
C)  chemical molecules; some form of energy
D)  light; sounds

Question 12

You are recording the electrical activity in a feature detector. Where are you recording from?

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A)  Retinal ganglion cell
B)  Visual cortex
C)  Auditory cortex
D)  Retinal bipolar cell
E)  Primary motor cortex B

Question 13

What evidence is there that cultural factors can influence picture interpretations, constancies, and susceptibility to illusions?

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Question 14

Sensory information is interpreted in light of existing knowledge, concepts, and expectations in _______________ processing.

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A)  top-down
B)  bottom-up
C)  vertical
D)  horizontal

Question 15

When dividing the class into groups, the professor assigns the same group to students whose desks are in the same row. The professor is using the law of _______________ in assigning groups.

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A)  similarity
B)  proximity
C)  closure
D)  continuity

Question 16

Elizabeth is on a business trip. She is staying in a nice hotel in the heart of the big city. Unfortunately, Elizabeth is unable to fall asleep because her room is on a busy street and the traffic noise is constant. Eventually, Elizabeth's sensory neurons will respond to the constant traffic noise and __________.

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A)  increase their activity, thereby diminishing her sensitivity to the noise
B)  increase their activity and therefore increase Elizabeth's sensory threshold
C)  decrease their activity, thereby diminishing her sensitivity to the noise
D)  decrease their activity and therefore increase Elizabeth's sensory threshold

Question 17

Jason was born with two bones fused together: the hammer and the anvil. Jason would suffer from

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A)  conduction deafness
B)  nerve deafness
C)  myopia
D)  von Beckey's syndrome
E)  localization deafness

Question 18

Which of the following senses would be most essential to a circus performer walking across a tightrope?

Accepted Answer

A)  Auditory sense
B)  Vestibular sense
C)  Visual sense
D)  Tactile sense

Question 19

Juan was playing some music on his stereo at 50 decibles (db) . Julie asked him to turn it up, so he did and asked her when she noticed it was louder. She reported that it was louder at 60 db. According to Weber's Law, where would Julie have noticed a difference in loudness if Juan had been playing the stereo at 100 db?

Accepted Answer

A)  110 db
B)  115 db
C)  120 db
D)  125 db
E)  Anything above 100 db

Question 20

If you are extremely sensitive to stimuli in a particular sensory system, we would expect

Accepted Answer

A)  a lower than normal absolute threshold for that system
B)  a higher than normal absolute threshold for that system
C)  a higher than normal difference threshold for that system
D)  a lower than normal decision criterion for that system
E)  a modality system differential

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Which concept specifically allows us to recognize familiar stimuli under varying conditions and in different contexts?

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The two kinds of sensory capabilities studied in psychophysics are

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Sensorineural deafness is an issue with the neuronal transmission of the sound signals to the parietal lobe.

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When vision is restored to adults who have been blind for their entire lives, they typically never fully adjust to the visual world. Examples like these demonstrate the ________.

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Hearing aids may correct many forms of conduction deafness, but they do little to rectify problems caused by _________ deafness.

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If you had myopia, the visual image would fall in front of the

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The central control mechanism has an effect through descending nerve fibres in the spinal cord.

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You are recording the electrical activity in a feature detector. Where are you recording from?

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