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1
Sensing the position and movement of your body parts is known as ___________.
vestibular sense
umami
audition
kinesthetics
2
When you wear drunk goggles you might miss when a ball is thrown, but eventually you catch it.
sensory adaptation
perceptual adaptation
perceptual expecation
subliminal adaptation
3
This theory says that we have three different color receptors and explains color blindness.
opponent-process
feature detector
Weber's Law
Young-Helmholtz
4
Receptors for kinesthesis are located in the:
olfactory epithelium
joints
semicircular canals
retina
5
Neural impulses go directly to the cortex without going through the thalamus from receptors in:
the olfactory epithelium
the joints
the taste buds
the retina
6
Which part of the ear collects sound?
middle ear
outer ear
inner ear
7
Cocktail party effect is an example of ________________.
bottom-up processing
sensation
change blindness
selective attention
8
The visual cliff measure infants' ability to perceive ________.
reality
depth
the disparity
the figure
9
When you walk in the woods at night, you use ______________ in order to feel around for danger.
selective attention
signal detection
top-down processing
bottom-up processing
10
T WENT TIES - You tend to see the words "went" and "ties," rather than "twenties"- ex. of?
bottom-up processing
proximity
closure
figure-ground
11
Which receptors are centered around the fovea and respond to color?
cones
optic nerves
rods
taste buds
12
Which part of the ear amplifies the sound?
outer ear
inner ear
middle ear
13
Many people missed the gorilla moving through the screen because of ___________.
transduction
inattentional blindness
change blindness
subliminal messages
14
Focusing on your hand the background gets blurry; your hand is _____ and the background is ____
the figure; the background
the focus; the subliminal
the most important; the nonsense
the ground; the figure
15
Which type of hearing loss happens with listening to your music too loud?
stupidity hearing loss
sensorineural hearing loss
Conduction hearing loss
Middle ear hearing loss
16
You put your toe in the pool and it feels cold, you jump in and 10 minutes later it feels warm.
absolute threshold
subliminal messages
Weber's law
sensory adaptation
17
Of the following, which is not a basic taste?
Peppery
Sweet
Bitter
Salty
18
Gestalt psychology explains _________.
sensation
the organized whole (perception)
the subliminal images
the retinal images
19
Which term is related to smell?
audition
equilibrium
olfaction
vestibular sense
20
Sound in a movie comes from the speakers, viewers perceive it as coming from the screen- ex. of
Feature-detection
Proximity
Visual Capture
Closure
21
The point where your optic nerve leaves the eye is known as _____________.
the rod
the blind spot
the fovea
the cornea
22
Which sense is least involved in enabling you to maintain balance when you stand on one foot?
vision
kinesthesis
olfaction
somatosensation
23
As you focus on something your lens must ________ to focus the image on the retina.
assimilate
adjust
flex
accomodate
24
The combination of cold and warm leads to experience ________.
no temperature
warm
hot
cold
25
Which part of the eye lets light in
iris
lens
retina
pupil
26
The theory that best accounts for the experience of pain is
Opponent-process Theory
Weber's Law
Trichromatic Theory
Gate-control Theory
27
This theory says background experience and expectations influence when we pick up on a signal.
absolute threshold
signal detection
Bottom-up
selective attention
28
Mechanical energy of vibrations is transduced to the electrical energy of neural impulses at:
the retina
the cochlea
the taste buds
the lens