PSYCH107: Chapter 5 Quiz pages 166-183
Which of the following statements about deaf culture is false?
Deaf individuals believe children should receive a cochlear implant as soon as possible after birth
What has research shown about processing subliminal messages?
In laboratory settings, people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness
How does a cochlear implant enable the deaf to hear?
It receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain.
How does the term Gestalt relate to the psychological study of perception?
Perception involves more than simply combining sensory stimuli; therefore, perception is studied as Gestalt.
Several studies have suggested that non-Black participants identify weapons faster and are more likely to identify non-weapons as weapons when the image of the weapon is paired with the image of a Black person. What does this imply about perception?
Perceptions our influenced by implicit prejudice and stereotypes
Which of the following is false about sensation?
Sensation refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced.
Which of the following was demonstrated by the 1998 research of Ayabe-Kanamura, Saito, Distel, Martínez-Gómez, & Hudson?
The ability to identify an odor, and rate its pleasantness and its intensity, varies cross-culturally.
Which of the following statements about the vestibular sense is false?
The vestibular sense is divided into olfaction, gustation, and audition.
What should be changed to make the following sentence true? "Neuropathic pain is pain from damage to neurons of either the brain or central nervous system."
The word "brain" should be changed to the word "peripheral."
What should be changed to make the following sentence true? "Pain that signals some type of tissue damage is known as neuropathic pain."
The word "neuropathic" should be changed to the word "inflammatory.
What should be changed to make the following sentence true? "The central tenet of Gestalt psychology is that the pattern is different from the sum of its parts."
The word "pattern" should be changed to the word "whole."
Which of the following statements about olfactory receptors is false?
They are bulb-like structures at the tip of the frontal lobe where the olfactory nerves begin
Why are olfaction and gustation called chemical senses?
They have sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe
What has research by Goolkasian & Woodbury (2010) demonstrated about pattern perception?
Those who are given verbal priming produce a biased interpretation of complex ambiguous figures.
Read the following two sentences. (1) Gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?
We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.
Ravon was born deaf, so he is diagnosed with ________ deafness
congenital
Ronaldo was born without the ability to experience pain, though he can perceive temperature differences and changes in pressure. What is his condition called?
congenital analgesia
What was the original focus of Swets' (1964) signal detection theory?
improving the sensitivity of air traffic controllers to plane blips
Individuals suffering from congenital analgesia have a shorter life span due to ________.
their injuries and secondary infections of injured sites
In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, what other taste groupings do we possess?
umami and fat content
