Psychology Module 18

Smell is unique among the senses in that it will often trigger:

vivid memories.

In 1937, two Harvard psychologists asked the public for assistance in helping find the Lindbergh baby after he was kidnapped. People were asked to submit the contents of their dreams. Out of 1300 submissions, approximately _____ percent accurately predicted that the baby had already died.

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Current understanding of pitch perception indicates that:

some combination of place and frequency theories seems to handle the pitches in the intermediate range.

_____ is the technical name for our sense of smell.

Olfaction

Perceiving remote events is to perceiving future events as _____ is to _____.

clairvoyance; precognition

The flavor of a food is due to the:

combination of aroma, taste, and texture.

Sandra is at a social gathering with a lot of good friends. She will likely feel that the temperature in the room is warmer than will her friend who is feeling excluded. This phenomenon is called:

embodied cognition.

After a rap concert, as Jamie walks out into the fresh air, she notices her ears are ringing. This ringing indicates possible damage to the:

hair cells of the basilar membrane.

The sensory experience of bending one's knees or raising one's arms BEST illustrates the sense of:

kinesthesia.

In vision, the amplitude of a light wave relates to people's perception of the brightness of a stimulus. To which perceptual dimension does the amplitude of a sound wave correspond in hearing?

loudness

Playing Ring Around the Rosie, some children are spinning around and around. When they stop, they still feel as though they are spinning because their _____ and _____ have not returned to their neutral state.

semicircular canals; kinesthetic receptors

Today, a man on television described his experience of _____, a condition in which the senses become joined. He explained that, when certain types of music are played, he often sees patterns of colors.

synesthesia

Marissa's preterm baby is stimulated with hand massage several times each day. Which result can she expect for her baby?

Her baby will gain weight faster and be able to go home sooner than preterm babies who are not stimulated with hand massage.

_____ is the ability to perceive future events.

Precognition

Wilson was born deaf. At 3 years of age his parents had the doctor put in this device so he will be able to hear.

a cochlear implant

A hypnotist instructed Juanita that, when she came out of hypnosis, she would be unable to spell her own name. This is an example of:

a posthypnotic suggestion.

Given what is known about the relationship between distraction and pain, if Charlene is trying to pick the BEST hospital room for a loved one who is in a great deal of pain, she should pick:

a shared room with a television that is near a window.

Camilla has been told her basilar membranes are damaged. This is MOST likely to affect her:

audition

Billy Bob works at the airport as a member of the ground crew. He typically takes off his hearing protection as he finds it cumbersome. Prolonged exposure to the roars of the jet engines will result in:

sensorineural hearing loss.

Judith suffers from painful arthritis. Judith's physician gave her medication to help ease her pain. The medication Judith was given contained water, rather than actual medicine. However, Judith reported that her pain reduced. The BEST explanation for this is that:

the medication dampened the central nervous system's attention and response to her back pain.