psych chapter 5 quiz

nociception

Felicia smacks her thumb with a hammer while building a doghouse. The sense of ________ provides her brain with information about the pain she feels.

congenital analgesia

Ronaldo was born without the ability to experience pain, though he can perceive temperature differences and changes in pressure. What is his condition called?

a building

When considering the wavelength of a radio wave - like the kind you hear when listening to music as you drive along - you would be correct to think that the size is this wave is about as long as

attention

Sarit is at a bar full of music, chatter, and laughter. He gets involved in an interesting conversation with a woman named Mona, and he tunes out all the background noise. Sarit's friend, Karen, taps him on the shoulder and asks what song just played on the jukebox. Sarit says he doesn't know, even though he is sitting right next to the jukebox and is familiar with popular music. This illustrates the role that ________ plays in what is sensed versus what is perceived.

temporal

Some neurons can only generate action potentials up to a certain speed, and no faster. This fact is a limitation of the ________ theory of pitch perception.

a figure-ground relationship

When you watch the teacher at the front of the room, you are easily able to distinguish her from the white board (or chalk board) behind her. This demonstrates the Gestalt principle of ________.

gestalt

Which school of thinking in psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?

top-down

Which type of processing involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge and expectancies?

cornea; pupil

light waves are first transmitted through the ___ at the front of the eye and enter an opening called the ___ before shining onto the retina

signal detection

Catherine is at a crowded baseball game when she loses track of her son, Nick. Despite the loud cheering and noise of the crowd, she can pinpoint his location when he calls for her because she can distinguish the sound of his voice from the all the other voices. This illustrates ________ theory.

crest; trough

The amplitude of a wave is the height of a wave as measured from the highest point on the wave________ to the lowest point on the wave ________.

temporal

The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe

muller-lyer

Two lines appear to be a different length, though in reality they are the same length. This is known as the ________ illusion.

binocular

________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives, and is a distance cue that allows us to perceive the depth of a given visual stimulus.

perception; sensation

________ refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced; ________ refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor.

higher; louder

________ amplitudes are associated with ________ sounds.

proximity

If you watch a flock of birds flying overhead, each very close to the next one, you may perceive them as all being part of the same group. If they were all spaced very much apart, however, you may see them as individual birds not flying together. This distinction takes advantage of which Gestalt principle?

Weber's Law

Imagine yourself in a dark classroom reading PowerPoint slides. If an audience member were to check the internet using her cell phone and causing her screen to light up, chances are that many people would notice the change in illumination in the classroom. However, if the same thing happened in a brightly lit classroom during a discussion, very few people would notice. The cell phone brightness does not change, but its ability to be detected as a change in illumination varies dramatically between the two contexts. This is an example of ________.

lens; fovea

In a person whose eyes work in the usual fashion, the ________ will focus images perfectly on a small indentation in the back of the eye known as the ________.

receptors on different portions of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies

What does the place theory of pitch perception suggest?

in laboratory settings, people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness

What has research shown about processing subliminal messages?

afterimage

What term describes the continuation of a visual sensation after removal of the stimulus?

closure

When a child works on a "connect the dots" puzzle, she can often see the completed work before she has finished all of the dots. Once there is enough visual information present, she's able to perceive the completed picture even though it is still incomplete. Which Gestalt principle does this demonstrate?

they have sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe

Why are olfaction and gustation called chemical senses?

transduction

Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds. This is an example of ________.