Question 1

Eve had forgotten that she had put on earrings until Adam said that he liked them.What was the likely source of Eve's lack of awareness?

Accepted Answer

A) sensory adaptation. 
B) a response bias. 
C) the difference threshold. 
D) Weber's law. 
A) sensory adaptation. 
B) a response bias. 
C) the difference threshold. 
D) Weber's law.

Question 2

A researcher is collecting data in an auditory signal detection task.One participant is making many more correct rejections than false alarms and many more misses than hits.Why would this outcome most likely occur?

Accepted Answer

A) The participant is a yea sayer. 
B) The cost of false alarms is low. 
C) The participant's hearing is very acute. 
D) The participant is a nay sayer. 
A) The participant is a yea sayer. 
B) The cost of false alarms is low. 
C) The participant's hearing is very acute. 
D) The participant is a nay sayer.

Question 3

Under which conditions do rods operate best?

Accepted Answer

A) Bright light 
B) Moderate light 
C) Coloured light 
D) Near darkness 
A) Bright light 
B) Moderate light 
C) Coloured light 
D) Near darkness

Question 4

People tend to group together objects that appear to be moving in the same direction.This finding by the Gestalt psychologists is known as the law of __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of People tend to group together objects that...

Question 5

Researchers have frequently documented the effects of context and expectation on percpetion by studying set.What are the three types of sets?

Accepted Answer

A) perceptual,objective,subjective 
B) component recognition,perceptual,mental 
C) Perceptual,mental,and motor 
D) component recognition,percpetual,motor 
A) perceptual,objective,subjective 
B) component recognition,perceptual,mental 
C) Perceptual,mental,and motor 
D) component recognition,percpetual,motor

Question 6

__________ theory is a systematic approach to the problem of response bias that allows an experimenter to identify and separate the roles of sensory stimuli and the individual's decision process.

Accepted Answer

The answer of __________ theory is a systematic approach to...

Question 7

The absolute threshold is operationally defined as the stimulus level at which a sensory signal is detected 100% of the time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What must occur for retinal disparity and convergence cues to be of any value?

Accepted Answer

A) people must keep one eye closed. 
B) people must have two working eyes. 
C) the head must be moved slowly back and forth. 
D) objects must be farther than ten feet away. 
A) people must keep one eye closed. 
B) people must have two working eyes. 
C) the head must be moved slowly back and forth. 
D) objects must be farther than ten feet away.

Question 9

Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?

Accepted Answer

A) There are only receptors for warmth which work like a thermometer. 
B) There are only receptors for coolness which work like a thermometer. 
C) The brain integrates separate warm and cool signals. 
D) Meissner corpuscles sense warmth and Merkel disks sense coolness; inputs from these receivers are directly "felt" by the brain. 
A) There are only receptors for warmth which work like a thermometer. 
B) There are only receptors for coolness which work like a thermometer. 
C) The brain integrates separate warm and cool signals. 
D) Meissner corpuscles sense warmth and Merkel disks sense coolness; inputs from these receivers are directly "felt" by the brain.

Question 10

When you are listening to musical instruments,the dimension of auditory sensation known as __________ reflects the complex components of a sound wave,allowing you to distinguish the sound of a guitar from the sound of a violin.

Accepted Answer

The answer of When you are listening to musical instruments,the...

Question 11

What does Ronald Melzack's neuromatrix theory of pain suggest?

Accepted Answer

A) pain radiates out from the central axis of the body and downward from the head. 
B) some people do not experience pain. 
C) people often experience pain with little or no physical cause. 
D) every painful experience has emotional as well as physical consequences. 
A) pain radiates out from the central axis of the body and downward from the head. 
B) some people do not experience pain. 
C) people often experience pain with little or no physical cause. 
D) every painful experience has emotional as well as physical consequences.

Question 12

Most of the crowd at the Grey Cup game is wearing the blue colours of the home team and a much smaller number is wearing the red colours of the away team.Which Gestalt law best illustrates the way in which these colours seem to automatically group themselves together?

Accepted Answer

A) proximity. 
B) common fate. 
C) similarity. 
D) effect. 
A) proximity. 
B) common fate. 
C) similarity. 
D) effect.

Question 13

An art student admires the way an artist has used texture gradients in a painting to give the appearance of depth.If the student were to attempt to duplicate this technique,what would the student need to do?

Accepted Answer

A) increase the density of texture as the scene recedes in depth. 
B) decrease the density of texture as the scene recedes in depth. 
C) apply less shading as the scene recedes in depth. 
D) paint parallel lines that appear to converge in the distance. 
A) increase the density of texture as the scene recedes in depth. 
B) decrease the density of texture as the scene recedes in depth. 
C) apply less shading as the scene recedes in depth. 
D) paint parallel lines that appear to converge in the distance.

Question 14

What is the fovea?

Accepted Answer

A) the location of the blind spot. 
B) an area in the retina where rods are particularly dense. 
C) the location of amacrine cells. 
D) an area in the retina where vision is sharpest. 
A) the location of the blind spot. 
B) an area in the retina where rods are particularly dense. 
C) the location of amacrine cells. 
D) an area in the retina where vision is sharpest.

Question 15

Rod thinks that he recognizes a woman in the grocery store,but he can't quite seem to place her.Later,when Rod sees her in a familiar setting of a restaurant where she is a waitress,he makes the connection.What is Rod's perceptual identification dependent upon?

Accepted Answer

A) nature and nurture. 
B) context and expectations. 
C) bottom-up processing. 
D) personality and motivation. 
A) nature and nurture. 
B) context and expectations. 
C) bottom-up processing. 
D) personality and motivation.

Question 16

Bottom-up processing refers to perceptual analysis in which information from an individual's past experience,knowledge,expectations,motivations,and background influence the way a perceived object is interpreted and classified.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

When a child combines the yellow and blue crayon colours in her drawing,the resulting colour is green.Why is this so?

Accepted Answer

A) Because in an additive colour mixture,combining these two colours yields green. 
B) When yellow and blue are combined,the yellow absorbs the yellow,and the blue absorbs the blue,leaving green as the only remaining colour. 
C) The only wavelengths that are not absorbed look green. 
D) Because of an afterimage created by the particular addition of these two colours. 
A) Because in an additive colour mixture,combining these two colours yields green. 
B) When yellow and blue are combined,the yellow absorbs the yellow,and the blue absorbs the blue,leaving green as the only remaining colour. 
C) The only wavelengths that are not absorbed look green. 
D) Because of an afterimage created by the particular addition of these two colours.

Question 18

What has research on the perception of pitch revealed?

Accepted Answer

A) frequency theory works best for frequencies above 5,000 Hz. 
B) place theory works best for frequencies below 1,000 Hz. 
C) both place and frequency theories work between 1,000 and 5,000 Hz. 
D) neither place nor frequency theory work between 1,000 and 5,000 Hz. 
A) frequency theory works best for frequencies above 5,000 Hz. 
B) place theory works best for frequencies below 1,000 Hz. 
C) both place and frequency theories work between 1,000 and 5,000 Hz. 
D) neither place nor frequency theory work between 1,000 and 5,000 Hz.

Question 19

What is another term for bottom-up processing?

Accepted Answer

A) data-driven processing 
B) conceptually-driven processing 
C) perceptually-driven processing 
D) schema-driven processing 
A) data-driven processing 
B) conceptually-driven processing 
C) perceptually-driven processing 
D) schema-driven processing

Question 20

A man is suing a local restaurant because he claims that the food that he was served contained spices that permanently damaged his taste receptors.Does this lawsuit have merit?

Accepted Answer

A) Yes.The taste buds may have been damaged,and are irreplaceable. 
B) Yes.This is a common reaction to eating spicy foods. 
C) No.The taste buds get replaced every few days,so he is likely to regain his sense of taste. 
D) No.The taste buds are durable and are rarely damaged. 
A) Yes.The taste buds may have been damaged,and are irreplaceable. 
B) Yes.This is a common reaction to eating spicy foods. 
C) No.The taste buds get replaced every few days,so he is likely to regain his sense of taste. 
D) No.The taste buds are durable and are rarely damaged.

Exam 5: A: Sensation and Perception

Eve had forgotten that she had put on earrings until Adam said that he liked them.What was the likely source of Eve's lack of awareness?

A researcher is collecting data in an auditory signal detection task.One participant is making many more correct rejections than false alarms and many more misses than hits.Why would this outcome most likely occur?

Under which conditions do rods operate best?

People tend to group together objects that appear to be moving in the same direction.This finding by the Gestalt psychologists is known as the law of __________.

Researchers have frequently documented the effects of context and expectation on percpetion by studying set.What are the three types of sets?

__________ theory is a systematic approach to the problem of response bias that allows an experimenter to identify and separate the roles of sensory stimuli and the individual's decision process.

The absolute threshold is operationally defined as the stimulus level at which a sensory signal is detected 100% of the time.

What must occur for retinal disparity and convergence cues to be of any value?

Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?

When you are listening to musical instruments,the dimension of auditory sensation known as __________ reflects the complex components of a sound wave,allowing you to distinguish the sound of a guitar from the sound of a violin.

What does Ronald Melzack's neuromatrix theory of pain suggest?

Most of the crowd at the Grey Cup game is wearing the blue colours of the home team and a much smaller number is wearing the red colours of the away team.Which Gestalt law best illustrates the way in which these colours seem to automatically group themselves together?

An art student admires the way an artist has used texture gradients in a painting to give the appearance of depth.If the student were to attempt to duplicate this technique,what would the student need to do?

What is the fovea?

Rod thinks that he recognizes a woman in the grocery store,but he can't quite seem to place her.Later,when Rod sees her in a familiar setting of a restaurant where she is a waitress,he makes the connection.What is Rod's perceptual identification dependent upon?

Bottom-up processing refers to perceptual analysis in which information from an individual's past experience,knowledge,expectations,motivations,and background influence the way a perceived object is interpreted and classified.

When a child combines the yellow and blue crayon colours in her drawing,the resulting colour is green.Why is this so?

What has research on the perception of pitch revealed?

What is another term for bottom-up processing?

A man is suing a local restaurant because he claims that the food that he was served contained spices that permanently damaged his taste receptors.Does this lawsuit have merit?

Psychology and Life

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Research Methods in Psychology

A: Research Methods in Psychology

The Biological Bases of Behaviour

A: Evolutionary Psychology

Sensation and Perception

A: the Biological Bases of Behaviour

Mind,consciousness,and Alternate States

Learning and Bahaviour Analysis

A: Mind,consciousness,and Alternate States

Memory

A: Learning and Bahaviour Analysis

Cognitive Processes

A: Memory

Intelligence and Intelligence Assessment

A: Cognitive Processes

Human Development Across the Life Span

A: Intelligence and Intelligence Assessment

Motivation

A: Human Development Across the Life Span

Emotion,stress,and Health

A: Emotion,stress,and Health

Understanding Human Personality

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A: Psychological Disorders

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