Question 1

An initial guess regarding how to organize and perceive a stimulus pattern is known as a(n)__________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of An initial guess regarding how to organize...

Question 2

Regarding perceptual constancies, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) On the highway, alcohol intoxication impairs size and shape constancy, adding to the accident rate among drunk drivers. 
B) The energy patterns reaching our senses are constantly changing, even when they occur from the same object. 
C) Perceptual constancies are based solely on prior experience with no aspect of these constancies being innate. 
D) Perceptual constancies impose order on the changing and often confusing information coming from the world around us.

Question 3

Which of the following would be good advice to help a person to minimize motion sickness?

Accepted Answer

A) Fix your vision on a nearby moving object. 
B) Lie down if you can. 
C) Breathe rapidly in short breaths. 
D) Move your head from side to side.

Question 4

Because Janie has more experience with people from her own race, she is better able to recognize people from her own race and tends to show a bias in perceiving persons from other racial and ethnic groups. This illustrates

Accepted Answer

A) the apparent-distance hypothesis. 
B) the other-race effect. 
C) color blindness. 
D) the psi phenomena.

Question 5

After riding in the back seat of a car, making rapid turns along a winding road, you experience dizziness and nausea because

Accepted Answer

A) information from the semicircular canals and the rest of your body is inconsistent. 
B) poisons build up in the system which cause vomiting to eject them. 
C) auditory and visual stimuli combine too rapidly and produce a sensory overload. 
D) kinesthetic receptors have been stimulated too vigorously and eventually shutdown.

Question 6

Physical properties of an object, such as length, position, motion, curvature, or direction, are consistently misjudged in

Accepted Answer

A) illusions. 
B) hallucinations. 
C) physiological nystagmus. 
D) sensory habituations.

Question 7

Research has shown that depth perception begins to develop as early as two weeks of age with its development not being complete until about what age?

Accepted Answer

A) six months 
B) nine months 
C) one year 
D) two years

Question 8

Falsely identifying someone as a friend until he or she comes nearer demonstrates the idea that visual patterns often represent

Accepted Answer

A) perceptual transduction. 
B) duplications of sensory information. 
C) perceptual invariances. 
D) perceptual hypotheses.

Question 9

The physical "height" of a sound wave that tells how much energy the wave contains is called

Accepted Answer

A) amplitude. 
B) frequency. 
C) compression. 
D) rarefaction.

Question 10

Research evidence has shown that the presence of a weapon

Accepted Answer

A) increases the accuracy of the account. 
B) reduces the ambiguity of the interpretation of the situation. 
C) impairs an eyewitness's accuracy of a description of a suspect. 
D) allows an eyewitness to remember the event longer.

Question 11

Regarding the word somesthetic, soma means

Accepted Answer

A) skin. 
B) body. 
C) motion. 
D) feel.

Question 12

Asking questions, seeking clarifications, and finding alternate channels of information are ways that one can actively look for additional evidence to check the accuracy of one's perceptions. This process is known as __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Asking questions, seeking clarifications, and finding alternate...

Question 13

In one study, participants said that a $90 wine tasted better than a $10 wine, although the participants had really tasted the same wine. The participants' functional MRI images showed that the pleasure areas of their brains were

Accepted Answer

A) more active when they were told they were tasting the "$10 wine." 
B) more active when they were told they were tasting the "$90 wine." 
C) equally active when both the "$90" and the "$10" wines were tasted. 
D) not active when either bottle of wine was tasted.

Question 14

Brief exposure to 150 decibels may cause permanent hearing loss.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

With olfaction, the receptors respond primarily to

Accepted Answer

A) airborne molecules. 
B) electromagnetic sensors. 
C) sound waves. 
D) gravity.

Question 16

The San bushmen, who live in a "round" culture, experience the Müller-Lyer illusion in exactly the same way as Americans, who live in a "square" culture, experience it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Regarding depth cues and depth perception, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) Depth cues are features of the environment that supply information about distance and space. 
B) Depth cues are messages from the body that supply information about distance and space. 
C) Depth cues require both eyes. 
D) The most basic source of depth perception is retinal disparity.

Question 18

Commercials that are loud and present unexpected imagery will usually

Accepted Answer

A) decrease the viewer's attention due to sensory gating. 
B) decrease the viewer's attention due to sensory conflict. 
C) increase the viewer's attention. 
D) have no effect on the viewer's attention.

Question 19

A basic problem with the trichromatic theory is that

Accepted Answer

A) color cannot be analyzed into "either-or" messages. 
B) only two types of light-sensitive visual pigments have been found in the retina. 
C) four colors seem to be primary, that is, you cannot get them by mixing other colors. 
D) it only explains events recorded in the optic pathways after information leaves the eyes.

Question 20

Which one of the following sequences is the correct one for audition?

Accepted Answer

A) eardrum, cochlea, hair cells, ossicles 
B) ossicles, eardrum, cochlea, hair cells 
C) hair cells, ossicles, eardrum, cochlea 
D) eardrum, ossicles, cochlea, hair cells

Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

An initial guess regarding how to organize and perceive a stimulus pattern is known as a(n)__________.

Regarding perceptual constancies, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following would be good advice to help a person to minimize motion sickness?

Because Janie has more experience with people from her own race, she is better able to recognize people from her own race and tends to show a bias in perceiving persons from other racial and ethnic groups. This illustrates

After riding in the back seat of a car, making rapid turns along a winding road, you experience dizziness and nausea because

Physical properties of an object, such as length, position, motion, curvature, or direction, are consistently misjudged in

Research has shown that depth perception begins to develop as early as two weeks of age with its development not being complete until about what age?

Falsely identifying someone as a friend until he or she comes nearer demonstrates the idea that visual patterns often represent

The physical "height" of a sound wave that tells how much energy the wave contains is called

Research evidence has shown that the presence of a weapon

Regarding the word somesthetic, soma means

Asking questions, seeking clarifications, and finding alternate channels of information are ways that one can actively look for additional evidence to check the accuracy of one's perceptions. This process is known as __________.

In one study, participants said that a $90 wine tasted better than a $10 wine, although the participants had really tasted the same wine. The participants' functional MRI images showed that the pleasure areas of their brains were

Brief exposure to 150 decibels may cause permanent hearing loss.

With olfaction, the receptors respond primarily to

The San bushmen, who live in a "round" culture, experience the Müller-Lyer illusion in exactly the same way as Americans, who live in a "square" culture, experience it.

Regarding depth cues and depth perception, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Commercials that are loud and present unexpected imagery will usually

A basic problem with the trichromatic theory is that

Which one of the following sequences is the correct one for audition?