Steeleappsych.weebly.com



PROGRESS TEST 1: UNIT 4: SENSATION & PERCEPTIONMULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONSWhere is the basilar membrane located?middle earsemicircular canalauditory canalcochleaAccording to opponent-process theory, what color afterimage would occur after viewing the color blue?blueyellowgreenredWhat is the conversion of sensory energies (like light and sound) into neural impulses?parallel processingaccommodationsensory adaptationtransductionThe classic gate-control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the…foveasemicircular canalsspinal cordbasilar membraneThe principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as…absolute thresholdfeature detectordifference thresholdWeber’s lawA person’s diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as…sensory adaptationtransductionparallel processingaccommodationWhile waiting inline at Starbucks, Kramer was playing on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of…blind spotsensory adaptationinattentional blindnessaccommodationAlthough Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.tolerance leveladaptation levelgustatory saturation levelabsolute threshold If you are expecting an important text message, you are much more likely to notice the sound as soon as the message arrives. This best illustrates… primingdifference thresholdsignal detection theoryabsolute thresholdWhat three primary colors of light are detected by your cones? green, red, and blueblue, red, and yellowblue, green, and purplegreen, red, and yellowAfter feeling the cold water against your skin when you first jump into the pool, after a few minutes, you no longer feel cold. This best illustrates…Weber’s lawtolerance levelaccommodationsensory adaptationThe fact that we don’t read the two “the’s” in this image demonstrates how our expectations can override our sensory input. What is this process called?selective attentioninattentional blindnessbottom-up processingtop-down processingWhat is priming?When associations created by past experiences influence one’s perceptionWhen the sensory input is lower than the absolute threshold, thus only being sensed less than 50% of the timeWhen one’s absolute threshold is lowered due to conscious awareness of the environment around themWhen one’s attention is focused on one thing, allowing them to be blind to changes in their environmentSarah is given one 100-oz bottle and one 99-oz bottle. She says that they feel the same weight. Then, she is given a 100-oz bottle and a 97-oz bottle. This time, she notices a difference. This is an example of…difference thresholdWeber’s lawsensory adaptationconscious awarenessThe Place Theory of pitch perception cannot account for how we hear… low-pitched soundshigh-pitched sounds middle-pitched sounds chords three or more pitches simultaneously The size of the pupil is controlled by the…lenscornearetinairisMost color-deficient people will probably…lack functioning red or green sensitive conesalso suffer from poor visionsee the world in only black and whitehave above-average vision to compensate for the deficitWhich one is NOT one of the basic tastes?saltysourspicybitterThe ability to attend to one voice among manyinattentional blindnesscocktail party effecthabituationsensory adaptation Who is associated with the Trichromatic theory?Young-HemholtzErnst WedberDavid HubelTorsten Wiesel Where do we have most of our cones?corneapupilirisfoveaWhen hearing, amplitude determines ________ and frequency determines __________.loudness; pitchpitch; loudnessthey both determine pitchthey both determine loudnessWhich part of the eye bends light waves so the images can be focused on the retina?lenspupilcorneafoveaWhat helps to detect black, white, and gray? Necessary for twilight vision.pupilrodsconesfoveaA subliminal stimuli is _______ the absolute threshold.abovebelow equal tonearAs we look at a flower, the intensity of the color that we see is related to the light wave’s…placement on the spectrumhuefrequencyamplitudeThe eye’s “blind spot” is related to…light rays focusing too far in front of the retinalight rays focusing to far behind the retinaa cluster of cells around the fovea which contains cones, but no rodsan area without receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eyeThe hammer, anvil, and stirrup are found in the…inner earmiddle earvestibular sacsouter earWhich of the following activities requires you to use the absolute threshold for sensation?telling the difference between sweet and saltydeciding if two glasses contain the same amount of waterdetecting a tiny, faint light on a radar screentelling if your guitar is in tuneWhich of the following correctly lists the order of structures through which sound travels entering the ear?auditory canal, eardrum, middle ear, cochleaeardrum, auditory canal, middle ear, cochleaeardrum, middle ear, cochlea, auditory canalauditory canal, middle ear, eardrum, cochleaOlfactory refers to which sense?smelltouchtaste sightWhich of the following types of cells are located in the brain’s occipital lobes?cochlea cellsrods and conesbipolar cellsfeature detectors ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download