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Unit 3 Sensory and Perception
Unit 3 Sensory and Perception
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Top-Down Processing is best described as ..........
Stimulus is guided by brain processes and background info.
None of the Above
Stimuli starts at the bottom and works its way up the system
Stimuli starts at the receptors and works up to the brain
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Longitudinal studies are... (remember concepts from other tests can be intertwined on future tests)
Numbers & statistics
Surveys & interviews
A link between two sets of data
Conducting research over a longer period of time
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What are you missing if you are color blind?
rods
cones
retina
lens
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As one gets older, his/her ability to smell things
becomes less intense
becomes more intense
stays the same
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what are ossicles?
large bones in your leg
small bones in your hands
tiny bones in your spine
little bones in your ear
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Which of the following would be an example of context effect
The E-sports team plays their matches at another school
The E-sports team plays their matches in a different classroom
The E-sports team plays their matches outdoors
The E-sports team plays their matches in the same room they practice
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Olfaction is:
The sense of vision
The sense of touch
The sense of smell
The sense of hearing
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If a stimulus is so low that we do not notice it conciously, we call this stimulus
superior
unknowing
subliminal
powerful
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Which part contains the photoreceptors?
B
D
C
E
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what part of the ear maintains balance
All of the above
Semicircular canals in the inner ear
Ossicles in the ear
cochlea in the ear
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What is kinesthetic sense?
Perception of the movements of our bodies and limbs
A short wavelength
Part of the inner ear
Sense located in the arm
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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
perceptual set
body set
mental set
visual set
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When you see something that has an unchanging size, even though the distance of the object could vary
size correction
size constancy
size variance
size theory
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The hue of color & pitch of sound are determined by
Loudness
Disparity
Amplitude
Wavelength
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Pitch depends on place and ...
amplitude
frequency
decibels
hertz
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timbre
the tune of a song
type or quality of sound
trees grown for music instruments
a percussion instrument
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A baby instinctively knowing that a food is bad based on taste most likely comes from
inborn distaste
parents teaching
genetic factic factors
sibling imitation
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Which of the following is a truth about blind spot?
blind spot occurs when the optic nerve leaves the eye
blind spot occurs when you blink too fast
blind spot occurs when one has too many rods
blind spot occurs when one burns his/her retina
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What is cross-sectional research? (remember concepts from other tests can be intertwined on future tests)
Studying different sections of the same group in history
Studying across different genders
Studying cross sections of plants
Studying a section of a research population at one time
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Selective attention refers to one's ability to
being able to watch a movie for a long time
being able to pay attention to my homework
focus on one conversation, when several are occurring in a room.
choosing which movie would be best to watch on Netflix tonight
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Why might one have issues while multi-tasking?
person finishes none of the tasks they start
person misses important information about 1 task while focusing on another
person sees everything and makes no mistakes
person misses no important information while completing multiple tasks
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Which of the following phenomena can the opponent-process theory explain that the trichromatic theory cannot?
Accommodation of the lens
The presence of the blind spot
Negative afterimages
The detection of white light
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Which Gestalt Principle is represented by this picture?
Closure
Similarity
Common Region
Focal Point
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The picture below utilizes which Gestalt Principle
continuity
common region
closure
focal point
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What Gestalt Principle is represented in this picture?
closure
proximity
figure-ground
focal-point
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The phi phenomenon refers to
The ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field.
The tendency to fill gaps to perceive disconnected parts as a whole object.
Psychics supposed ability to see into the future
Look of moving created by serial blinking on and off of adjacent lights.
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What is a supertaster?
A person who can taste every detail for all types of food.
A person who tastes certain flavors & foods more strongly than others.
A person who is famous for tasting food.
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What is transduction?
changes stimulation into info that can be processed
neither of these
receptors change physical stimuli into signals sent to brain
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The gate-control theory attempts to explain how:
we filter excess information when we experience stimulation.
the nervous system blocks/allows pain to pass to the brain
our eyes adapt to different levels of light stimulation.
different areas of the tongue are sensitive to tastes
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Visual transduction occurs in the
Cornea
Pupil
Iris
Retina
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What does the semicircular canals help with?
Seeing
Tasting
Balancing
Hearing
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Which sense, besides taste, has the most impact on our ability to taste food and liquids
hearing
smell
touch
sight
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What is stroboscopic movement?
Someone moving down a long hallway and gradually appearing smaller
Illusion of movement when something appears in a different spot
An example of gesalt principles of organization
How something smaller appears to move more than something bigger
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What monoocular cue is used here?
relative size
figure-ground
interposition
linear perspective
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Which cue would work best if I was trying to figure out far something is from me?
similarity
linear perspective
perspective
figure-ground
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When one ear hears a noise before the other ear allows a person to more easily
block out the sound
determine where the sound is coming from
enjoy the sound
become confused about the source of the noise
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What is the trichromatic theory?
There are 3 different ways to perceive color
Humans can only process 3 primary colors
human retina contains three different receptors for color
There are 3 primary colors
