Exam 2: Research Methodology

Which of the following is TRUE of transmagnetic stimulation?

Which neuroimaging technique uses electrodes to determine the time course of perceptual processes?

Jaime is a participant in a psychophysical experiment on sound detection.He is asked to determine the softest sound he can hear at a particular frequency.That sound is his ______.

Dr.Patel is doing an experiment on the softest volume humans can hear at a particular frequency.He asks participants to set a dial to the softest possible sound they can hear.What method is Dr.Patel using?

A Snellen chart is used as an initial screening for glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.

Masking experiments require participants to determine whether a stimulus is ______.

The inability of sound to be transmitted to the cochlea is known as ______ hearing loss.

Robinson et al (2016) conducted a study of whether olfaction interacts with vision.What did they find?

Neuroimaging techniques were an advancement on early methods because they allow researchers to study ______ brains.

Neuroimaging allows scientists to correlate perception with brain activity.

What is the name for the condition that causes an inability to focus clearly on far objects, which occurs because accommodation cannot make the lens thin enough?

Women tend to have an advantage over men when it comes to sense of smell.

The smallest difference between two stimuli that can be detected is known as the ______.

A food company wants to develop a psychological measure to evaluate people's perception of sweetness.What should they do?

Explain how response expansion works, using an example to illustrate the concept.

A graph that illustrates the thresholds for the frequencies as measured by the audiometer is known as a(n) ______.

An observer is asked to adjust the level of pressure on the skin until the person can just barely feel the lightest pressure on his or her skin.Then the observer starts again from a different starting level of pressure.Which technique does this best represent?

In signal detection theory, if the cost of a miss is very high and the risk of a false alarm is very low, the criterion will be set ______.

Professor Everdine has devised a scale to examine people's perception of saltiness.She finds that for every milligram of salt added, the perception of saltiness increases fourfold.That is, the perception of saltiness increases faster than the actual increase in salt.This finding illustrates response ______.

What measures 15,000 on the Scoville scale for one person may represent a different number for somebody else.