Question 1

What is the technical term for the ear drum?

Accepted Answer

A)  Occipital membrane 
B)  Tympanic membrane 
C)  Rhythmic membrane 
D)  Temporal membrane

Question 2

Describe the gate control theory.

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Question 3

How many basic types of taste are there?

Accepted Answer

A)  3 
B)  4 
C)  4, perhaps 5 
D)  5, perhaps 6

Question 4

The muscles around the opening of the ears __________ in response to loud noises.

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Question 5

Why are taste and smell referred to as chemical senses?

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Question 6

Describe the characteristics of the slow and fast pain pathways.

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Question 7

Which of the following alternatives BEST captures the distinction between the two major visual pathways described in your text?

Accepted Answer

A)  One processes object location. The other processes object identity. 
B)  One processes chromatic aspects of the visual scene. The other processes nonchromatic aspects of the scene. 
C)  One processes simple object features. The other processes complex object features. 
D)  One processes stationary objects in the visual scene. The other processes moving objects.

Question 8

Your text offers the hypothesis that picky eating among children may be adaptive in helping us survive. Which of the following findings would offer the STRONGEST support for this hypothesis if it were true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Children are picky eaters in a range of very different cultures around the world. 
B)  Children's pickiness in their food preferences is related to their parents' disciplinary styles. 
C)  In some of the world's cultures, children are no pickier than adults in their food preferences. 
D)  Identical twins raised in different adoptive families are equally picky in their food preferences.

Question 9

Which of the following sentences expresses bottom-up processing?

Accepted Answer

A)  You see what's in front of you. 
B)  You see what you want to see. 
C)  You see what you expect to see. 
D)  You see what you're conditioned to see.

Question 10

Your text states that "when a body part is removed . . . somatosensory inputs from intact body parts expand to occupy those regions of the cortex." Recall the processes of neural development described in Chapter 4. Which concepts are most clearly suggested by this passage?

Accepted Answer

A)  plasticity and neurogenesis 
B)  plasticity and synaptogenesis 
C)  plasticity and neuropathy 
D)  neurogenesis and synaptogenesis

Question 11

Clay is a newborn. Which of the following statements is TRUE with respect to his chemical senses?

Accepted Answer

A)  Clay prefers the odor of his mother's milk to the odor of another woman's milk. 
B)  Clay will rapidly develop a preference for sour tastes. 
C)  Clay's ability to taste is quite poor. 
D)  Clay does not yet show a preference for sweet tastes over bitter tastes.

Question 12

Our tendency to view objects as unchanging is referred to as __________.

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Question 13

In what hair-like structures are the sensory receptors of the olfactory system located? Wording is awkward. Recommend changing to: The sensory receptors of the olfactory system are located in the hair-like structures called:

Accepted Answer

A)  Nasal mucosa 
B)  Papillae 
C)  Odorants 
D)  Cilia

Question 14

The absolute threshold for touch is ________ correlated with the density of touch receptors in the part of the body being stimulated.

Accepted Answer

A)  negatively 
B)  positively 
C)  perfectly 
D)  not

Question 15

Ouch! A paper cut! You jerk your hand away from the sheet just as a tiny droplet of blood appears on your finger. The cut's pain signal travels to your brain along the _______ axons of the _______ pain pathway

Accepted Answer

A)  unmyelinated; slow 
B)  myelinated; slow 
C)  unmyelinated; fast 
D)  myelinated; fast

Question 16

The optic nerve is composed of axons of _________.

Accepted Answer

A)  bipolar cells 
B)  ganglion cells 
C)  rods and cones 
D)  foveal cells

Question 17

To determine the importance of a sound, it is necessary to localize it in space.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Touch information is relayed from the thalamus to ________ cortex in the _______ lobe.

Accepted Answer

A)  motor; frontal 
B)  motor; parietal 
C)  somatosensory; frontal 
D)  somatosensory; parietal

Question 19

Which of the following tactile sensory receptors is CORRECTLY matched with a function?

Accepted Answer

A)  Merkel's discs - respond to vibrations and heavy pressure 
B)  Ruffini's end-organs - register light to moderate pressure 
C)  Meissner's corpuscles - transduces information about sensitive touch 
D)  Pacinian corpuscles - register heavy pressure and movement of the joints

Question 20

The sense receptors for olfaction are located on hair-like structures called ______. They convert odorants into neural impulses, an example of a process termed _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  papillae; transduction 
B)  papillae; perception 
C)  cilia; transduction 
D)  cilia; perception

Exam 5: Sensation and Perception