Question 1

Callie is pregnant.She has never liked vegetables and rarely eats them.However, she does not want her baby to have the same bad eating habits.If Callie wants her baby to grow up to enjoy the taste of vegetables, the most effective thing she can do is

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A) eat vegetables while she is pregnant and nursing. 
B) give the baby strained vegetables as one of his or her first solid foods. 
C) avoid eating meat while she is pregnant and nursing. 
D) limit the amount of meat the baby is fed when he or she starts to eat solid food.

Question 2

When Margot was a child, her mother baked bread on Fridays.As an adult, whenever Margot smells bread baking she remembers her mother and feels happy.The mood and memories result from the processing of smell information in the

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A) thalamus. 
B) olfactory epithelium. 
C) haptic receptor. 
D) prefrontal cortex.

Question 3

Trichromatic theory is based upon

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A) the complementary functioning of three types of cones. 
B) the oppositional functioning of two types of ganglion cell. 
C) the complementary functioning of three types of ganglion cell. 
D) the oppositional functioning of two types of cones.

Question 4

Avi broke his ankle skiing.At first, he felt a sharp and intense pain.The next day, the sharp pain was gone, but his ankle ached almost all the time.The sharp immediate pain was due to ; the later aching pain was due to .

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A) unmyelinated axons; myelinated axons 
B) myelinated axons; unmyelinated axons 
C) pain receptors; pressure receptors 
D) pressure receptors; pain receptors

Question 5

Salted caramel is popular because the flavor activates which two taste receptors?

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A) umami and salty 
B) salty and bitter 
C) sweet and salty 
D) sweet and sour

Question 6

The physical properties of a stimulus are translated into neural impulses in a process called

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A) perception. 
B) transduction. 
C) sensation. 
D) coarse coding.

Question 7

Ayelet is trying to draw a picture of two people on opposite sides of a river.No matter how carefully she tries to draw the two people the same size, the person who is supposed to be on the distant side seems to be much taller than the person who is supposed to be on the closer side.You could explain that the depth cue of means that she will need to draw of the person who is to be seen as farther away.

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A) relative size; a smaller image 
B) relative size; a larger image 
C) familiar size; a larger image 
D) familiar size; a smaller image

Question 8

Sameer is mixing paint.He starts with a very deep green paint and then gradually adds white paint.Sameer is of the green paint.

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A) changing the hue 
B) increasing the saturation 
C) decreasing the saturation 
D) changing the simultaneous contrast

Question 9

Sadafa loves Indian food but is careful about what he eats because it hurts his tongue when he eats bitter food.Sadafa most likely is

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A) a supertaster and has few taste buds in his mouth. 
B) a supertaster with a very large number of taste buds in his mouth. 
C) not a supertaster and has a large number of pain receptors in his mouth. 
D) not a supertaster and has few pain receptors in his mouth.

Question 10

How are taste buds distributed throughout the tongue and mouth?

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A) Different regions of the tongue and mouth are more sensitive to certain tastes. 
B) The taste buds are distributed fairly uniformly throughout the tongue and mouth. 
C) Most of the taste buds are localized to particular regions of the tongue and mouth. 
D) Depending on the taste quality, the taste buds can be either localized or spread uniformly.

Question 11

Taste receptor cells are to the gustatory system as

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A) hair cells are to the auditory system. 
B) thalamic cells are to the olfactory system. 
C) ganglion cells are to the visual system. 
D) the pain gate is to haptic perception.

Question 12

The does most of the focusing of the light onto the retina, and the allows for more accuracy of focusing.

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A) cornea; pupil 
B) pupil; lens 
C) lens; cornea 
D) cornea; lens

Question 13

When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater, her causes her to enlarge.

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A) iris; pupil 
B) iris; lens 
C) cornea; lens 
D) cornea; pupil

Question 14

Wavelengths of light are to constancy as differences in light reflected off various objects are to constancy.

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A) size; shape 
B) shape; size 
C) lightness; color 
D) color; lightness

Question 15

As part of an experiment, Amanda is seated in front of a blank computer screen.On each trial, a line appears on the screen and then an object appears above the line.The task is to name the object as rapidly as possible.The object is either presented alone or within a scene.For example, a chicken may be presented alone or in a barnyard.People are significantly faster at naming the object when it is presented in the scene.This result is evidence for

Accepted Answer

A) bottom-up processing in visual perception. 
B) top-down processing in visual perception. 
C) the role of context in figure-ground segmentation. 
D) a cognitive application of the Gestalt laws.

Question 16

were the first psychologists to emphasize the perceptual processes of organizing into wholes.

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A) Structural 
B) Psychodynamic 
C) Gestalt 
D) Cognitive

Question 17

When the moon is high in the sky it will appear when it is close to the horizon.

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A) larger than 
B) just as distant as 
C) more distant than 
D) closer than

Question 18

M.P.has brain damage in a region that is critical for motion perception.As a result, M.P.perceives moving objects as

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A) moving at a slower pace than reality. 
B) moving at a faster pace than reality. 
C) a series of snapshots. 
D) replaced by empty space.

Question 19

Hannah is having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.When she tries the three kinds of sauces to see how hot they are, she is assessing differences.When she compares the taste of her margarita to the taste of her friend's Mexican beer, she is assessing a difference.

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A) qualitative; qualitative 
B) qualitative; quantitative 
C) quantitative; quantitative 
D) quantitative; qualitative

Question 20

Amanda plays the violin professionally and can easily distinguish between a high C note and a high B note.What kind of process is responsible for Amanda's ability to make this distinction and where does it take place?

Accepted Answer

A) place coding; base of basilar membrane 
B) temporal coding; tip of basilar membrane 
C) place coding; tip of basilar membrane 
D) temporal coding; base of basilar membrane

Exam 5: Sensation and Perception