Question 1

Over 1.5 million ESP trials were recently conducted through the newspaper, radio, and television.The results indicated that

Accepted Answer

A)  psychokinesis exists, but the other three psi phenomenon do not exist. 
B)  psychokinesis does not exist, but the other three psi phenomenon do. 
C)  only 10 percent of the participants exhibited a stable ESP ability. 
D)  there was no significant ESP effect.

Question 2

When you first get into the swimming pool, the water feels rather cool, but after swimming for a while, the water feels fine.A friend asks you how the water is, and you tell her the "water's great." She jumps in and then accuses you of lying because the water is freezing.You really were not lying.It is just that you experienced

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory gating. 
B)  sensory adaptation. 
C)  sensory conflict. 
D)  selective attention.

Question 3

Gestalt organizing principles and the perceptual constancies are two excellent examples of

Accepted Answer

A)  ​sensory conflict theory. 
B)  perceptual dishabituation. 
C)  ​bottom-up perceptual construction. 
D)  top-down perceptual construction.

Question 4

The segments of weightlessness for the film about astronauts were filmed in the special airplane unofficially nicknamed the "Vomit Comet," which explains what usually happens when this plane goes into its maneuvers to create weightlessness.The problems created by weightlessness are best explained by the __________ theory.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory conflict 
B)  lock-and-key 
C)  opponent process 
D)  gate control

Question 5

You perfectly time the movement of your visible hand "knocking" on your head, while your hidden hand knocks on the table.The perception of the "knocking" sound coming from your head illustrates the Gestalt principle of contiguity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Reality testing refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  obtaining additional information to check the accuracy of one's perceptions. 
B)  an initial guess regarding how to organize a stimulus pattern. 
C)  changes in perception that can be attributed to prior experience. 
D)  the well-established patterns of perceptual organization and attention.

Question 7

After a lifetime of blindness, newly sighted people must learn to

Accepted Answer

A)  identify objects. 
B)  judge sizes and distances. 
C)  interpret handwriting. 
D)  do all of these.

Question 8

Most of the focusing is done at the front of the eye by the cornea, with additional, smaller adjustments being made by the

Accepted Answer

A)  lens. 
B)  iris. 
C)  retina. 
D)  pupil.

Question 9

Jake is being administered a test of his visual acuity in which he will be required to read rows of letters of diminishing size until he can no longer distinguish them.Jake's visual acuity is being assessed using the

Accepted Answer

A)  Refraction Test. 
B)  Ishihara test. 
C)  Landolt rings. 
D)  Snellen chart.

Question 10

Which of the following occurrences do ESP researchers regard as evidence that parapsychological skills are very fragile, while ESP skeptics regard it as evidence that the ESP demonstration was just a run of luck?

Accepted Answer

A)  stroboscopic movement 
B)  the Doppler effect 
C)  the decline effect 
D)  successful replication of the ESP experiment

Question 11

As a teacher writes on the board, she detects over her shoulder a student about to throw a wad of paper at her.This excellent peripheral vision is due to the large concentration of which of the following in the periphery of her eyes?

Accepted Answer

A)  rods 
B)  cones 
C)  phosphenes 
D)  stereocilia

Question 12

Regarding how they perceive the world, East Asians tend to

Accepted Answer

A)  explain actions in terms of internal factors. 
B)  have a narrow focus of attention. 
C)  explain actions in terms of social context. 
D)  focus on a sense of personal control.

Question 13

Judging the size of cars, houses, and people from great distances or from the top of a skyscraper would be considered

Accepted Answer

A)  native. 
B)  empirical. 
C)  intrinsic. 
D)  endogenous.

Question 14

Apparent motion can be influenced by an observer's point of fixation with objects at great distances, such as the sun and moon, always appearing to

Accepted Answer

A)  move backward away from the direction you are traveling. 
B)  move forward in the same direction you are traveling. 
C)  remain stationary. 
D)  disappear entirely.

Question 15

Jason is an avid hunter.Although his parents caution him to wear ear protection, he has developed the "Hunter's notch," which means that he has

Accepted Answer

A)  caused permanent indentions in his eardrum. 
B)  shattered the bones in the middle ear. 
C)  damaged the hair cells in the inner ear. 
D)  caused ear wax to build up in the ear canal.

Question 16

The visual system is able to analyze incoming sensory information into lines, angles, shading, and movement because it has a set of

Accepted Answer

A)  sight cells. 
B)  second stage sensors. 
C)  feature detectors. 
D)  neurological transducers.

Question 17

The illustration depicts the use of which pictorial depth cue?

Accepted Answer

A)  linear perspective 
B)  texture gradients 
C)  aerial perspective 
D)  interposition

Question 18

Regarding the retina, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  The retina consists of many more cones than rods. 
B)  Light first passes through the cornea, the lens, the vitreous humor, and the outer layers of the retina. 
C)  Only about half of the light falling on the front of the eye ever reaches the rods and cones in the retina. 
D)  The part of the eye where the optic nerve leaves the eye contains no rods or cones and is known as the blind spot.

Question 19

Which of the following is a major symptom of psychosis, dementia, epilepsy, migraine headaches, alcohol withdrawal, and drug intoxication and is also one of the clearest signs that a person has "lost touch with reality"?

Accepted Answer

A)  illusions 
B)  hallucinations. 
C)  stroboscopic movement 
D)  reality testing

Question 20

Differentiate between the warning and reminding systems regarding pain messages; describe Melzack's gate control theory; and explain how it is related to the pain control methods of acupuncture and counterirritation.

Accepted Answer

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Exam 4: Sensation and Perception.