Question 1

Zoie is riding a roller coaster. The _____ sense is offering her information regarding the speed and angle at which she is moving.

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Question 2

If you were doing a "Find the difference between these two pictures" feature in a magazine, you would do best with a _____ strategy.

Accepted Answer

A) bottom-up 
B) top-down 
C) processing 
D) perceptual set

Question 3

Experimental, placebo-controlled studies have demonstrated that using subliminal messages to control appetite or smoking have _____ effect on behavior.

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A) a slight 
B) a powerful 
C) a negative 
D) no

Question 4

After visual information is transduced, the neural impulses travel on the optic nerve from the optic chiasm to the thalamus, which then sends it to the _____, the specific area in the occipital lobe devoted to visual processing.

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Question 5

Subliminal persuasion may _____ behavior, but not _____ behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) change; maintain 
B) initiate; stop 
C) influence; control 
D) condition; reinforce

Question 6

The axons of the ganglion cells bundle together to make the two _____ nerves, which come together at the _____

Accepted Answer

A) optic; optic chiasm. 
B) visual; blind spot. 
C) suprachiasmatic; optic chiasm. 
D) fovea; visual chiasm.

Question 7

Why is there skepticism about ESP, even though a few studies seemed to support that it can occur?

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Question 8

Which of the following sequences is correct? On its way to the brain, light signals are _____ and then _____

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A) transduced by rods and cones; passed to amacrine, bipolar and horizontal cells. 
B) sent through the fovea; transduced by amacrine, bipolar and horizontal cells. 
C) converted by ganglion cells; sent to the rods and cones. 
D) transduced by rods and cones; sent next to the V1 area.

Question 9

The tendency to perceive things that look similar as part of the same group is known as _____

Accepted Answer

A) figure-ground relationship. 
B) closure. 
C) similarity. 
D) proximity.

Question 10

The fact that, when we look at an object, each one of our two eyes receives a slightly different image of the object, is known as _____

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A) binocular disparity. 
B) binocular inversion. 
C) convergence. 
D) stereophonic vision.

Question 11

_____ perception is the capacity to perceive and respond to stimuli presented below the threshold of awareness.

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A) Subliminal 
B) Extrasensory 
C) Synesthetic 
D) Abnormal

Question 12

In the morning when Khalil puts on his baseball cap, he notices the tightness around his head. However, as the morning progresses, he no longer pays attention to the baseball cap and grows accustomed to the feeling around his head. This scenario is illustrating the process of _____.

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Question 13

After information is brought in through sensory receptors, it goes through a conversion process before the brain is able to process it. This process is called _____

Accepted Answer

A) accommodation. 
B) transduction. 
C) adaptation. 
D) assimilation.

Question 14

The _____ is the narrow band of light waves that our eyes can respond to.

Accepted Answer

A) optic chiasm 
B) perceptual set 
C) fovea 
D) visible spectrum

Question 15

When playing charades, it is easier to get the answer because you know what category it will be in. This illustrates _____ processing.

Accepted Answer

A) bottom-up 
B) reverse 
C) identification 
D) top-down

Question 16

Dorian drove his wife to the airport so she could attend her business trip. What explains his understanding that the actual airplane is not getting smaller and smaller as he sees the airplane take off and fly high into the sky?

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A) size constancy 
B) brightness constancy 
C) color constancy 
D) tone constancy

Question 17

Jess was driving to work one day and heard his cell phone ring. He fumbled through his backpack to find his phone and then proceeded to answer it. As he took the call, he heard and felt his car hit the car in front of him. Because he wasn't directly focusing on the road while he took the call, Jess experienced what psychologists refer to as _____.

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Question 18

The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same physical dimensions, regardless of its distance from the viewer, is known as _____

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A) size constancy. 
B) shape constancy. 
C) brightness constancy. 
D) color constancy.

Question 19

The smallest increase or decrease in a physical stimulus that you can detect at least 50 percent of the time is called the _____ difference.

Accepted Answer

A) minimum 
B) just sensed 
C) saturation 
D) just noticeable

Question 20

Why is transduction so important?

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Exam 3: Sensation and Perception