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Course: PSY 120, Fall 2007School: N. Colorado
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1 Question The conversion of sensory stimulation into neural impulses is called Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 2 transduction. transduction. 4 out of 4 points 4 out of 4 points Meghan uses her prior experience as a mechanic in a bicycle shop to repair the handlebars on her friend Haley's bike. In this example, Meghan is using __________ to help her friend Haley. Selected Answer: Correct Answer:...
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1 Question The conversion of sensory stimulation into neural impulses is called Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 2 transduction. transduction.
4 out of 4 points
4 out of 4 points Meghan uses her prior experience as a mechanic in a bicycle shop to repair the handlebars on her friend Haley's bike. In this example, Meghan is using __________ to help her friend Haley. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: bottom-up processing bottom-up processing
Question 3
4 out of 4 points Cory is able to see nearby objects perfectly, but objects that are far away appear very fuzzy. Cory is likely to have problem with her vision known as Selected Answer: Correct Answer: myopia. myopia.
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4 out of 4 points Harry stubs his toe and immediately begins to rub it. Almost immediately, Harry feels the pain in his toe begin to subside. According to the "gate-control theory" of pain, Harry's perception of pain reduction occurs because rubbing the toe stimulated Selected Answer: Correct Answer: large, fast-conducting fibers to close the gate. large, fast-conducting fibers to close the gate.
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4 out of 4 points The capacity to perceive and respond to stimuli that is just beneath conscious awareness is known as ______. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: subliminal perception subliminal perception
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4 out of 4 points A painting shows a dog peering out behind a tree. You judge the tree to be closer to you than the dog because the tree is partially blocking your view of the dog. The monocular cue used to give you this perception is called Selected Answer: Correct Answer: interposition. interposition.
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4 out of 4 points Hillary is able to listen only to her friends conversation while blocking out the other conversations going on around her. This is known as ______. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: sensory adaptation sensory adaptation
Question 8 Which type of visual cell allows people to see in dimly lit environments? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 9 A sound's pitch is determined by the __________ of the sound. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 10 frequency frequency Rods Rods
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4 out of 4 points Research during the 1980s showed that touch was important during early human development. More specifically, this research showed that __________ was effective in helping premature infants to have shorter hospital stays and to score higher on tests of motor and mental abilities. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: massage massage
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4 out of 4 points Our tendency to perceive objects as maintaining stable properties such as size and shape despite differences in distance, viewing angle, and lighting is called Selected Answer: Correct Answer: perceptual constancy. perceptual constancy.
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4 out of 4 points When Jane sees her dog she is experiencing ______ but when her brain this detects as her cocker spaniel she is experiencing ______. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: sensation, perception sensation, perception
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4 out of 4 points The apparent motion that occurs when several stationary lights in a dark room are flashed on and off in sequence, causing the perception that a single light is moving one spot to the next is called Selected Answer: Correct Answer: autokinetic illusion. autokinetic illusion.
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4 out of 4 points When odor molecules vaporize, they become airborne and make their way to a region in each nostril called the olfactory Selected Answer: Correct Answer: epithelium. epithelium.
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4 out of 4 points Which of the following provides the clearest vision due to a large concentration of cones? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Fovea Fovea 4 out of 4 points A perceptual set results from Selected Answer: Correct Answer: prior knowledge. prior knowledge.
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4 out of 4 points The minimum amount of sensory stimulation that can be detected 50 percent of the time is called the __________ threshold. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: minimal minimal 4 out of 4 points The kinesthetic sense provides us information regarding Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the movement and position of the entire body and its parts relative to each other. the movement and position of the entire body and its parts relative to each other.
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4 out of 4 points Dogs have a better sense of smell than humans because their ___________ is much larger than the corresponding structure in humans. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: olfactory epithelium olfactory epithelium 4 out of 4 points Which of the following is NOT a monocular depth cue? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Convergence Convergence
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4 out of 4 points Research that supports the trichromatic theory has revealed that the retina contains cones sensitive to the following three colors: Selected Answer: Correct Answer: blue, green, red. blue, green, red. 4 out of 4 points The optic nerve connects the
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optic chiasm to the thalamus. optic chiasm to the thalamus. 4 out of 4 points
The sensory receptors for hearing are Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 24 attached to the basilar membrane in cochlea. attached to the basilar membrane in cochlea.
4 out of 4 points Recent research has revealed that the human tongue is sensitive to the chemical __________, a substance found in protein-rich foods. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: glutamate glutamate 4 out of 4 points One important limitation to the frequency theory of hearing is that Selected Answer: Correct Answer: neurons linked to the hair cells cannot fire faster than 1,000 times per second. neurons linked to the hair cells cannot fire faster than 1,000 times per second.
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