Chapter 5 Understanding Quiz

Jasmine was in a serious car accident. She suffered damage to her temporal lobe, just behind her right ear. She might have trouble recognizing:

familiar faces

Our assumptions that light comes from above contributes to:

light and shadow cues

Multiple ____ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, where as a single ___ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

rods; cone

According to Gestalt psychologist, people tend to fill in the gaps to create a complete, whole object. This is called the principle of:

closure

Today a man on TV 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

As John was leaving the show, he was unable to hear his friend talking next to him in a normal conversational tone of ____ decibels since the rock concert was well over 130 decibels.

60

Which theorist conducted an experiment in which they placed infants on the edge of a safe canon to determine whether crawling infants and newborn animals can perceive depth?

Eleanor Gibson

Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by:

Gestalt psychology

A neural facial expression may be perceived as sadder at a funeral then at a circus. This BEST illustrates:

a context effect

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

a window looking out on trees

Visual information is processed by ganglion cells:

after it is processed by rods and cones and after it is processed by bipolar cells

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to the:

cochlea

Researchers used goggles to restrict kittens' visions for several months. Once the goggles were removed, the kittens:

could distinguish only color and brightness

David's 7- month - old niece is just learning to crawl. His sister has agreed to have her participate in an experiment that incorporates a visual cliff. What is MOST likely being studied in this experiment?

depth perception

Kendra went to a fundraiser and the organizers gave her a mug of coffee when she arrived. Later, she felt closer to the organizers and contributed generously to the cause. What might be occurring in this scenario?

embodied cognition

The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time is known as:

frequency

What is one way to help children learn to like new foods?

give them small tastes of food over time

____ is the result of the transduction of air pressure waves into neural messages that are interpreted by the brain.

hearing

Individuals'' memories of pain are MOST effected by:

how much pain they felt at the end

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

kinesthesia

Judy was born without the ability to feel pain. On several occasions she has not noticed that she has been severely injured. People with this type of problem do NOT often:

live a more healthy life because pain is not an issue

The placement of human ears allows us to better:

locate sounds

The strength of a sound wave determines what aspect of hearing?

loudness

The ____ theory states that color vision depends on opponent retinal processes.

opponent- processes

In terms of vision ___ is the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or inverted visual field.

perceptual adaption

Professor Damion studies the impact of experience and expectations on peoples perception. Its research is based on:

perceptual sets

____ refers to the activation, often unconsciously of certain associations thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response.

priming

They way in which a student quickly groups the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of:

proximity

Experiencing sudden pain is to _____ as recognizing that one is suffering a heart attack is to _____.

sensation; perception

____ occurs when there is damage to the cochlea's receptor cells or to the auditory nerves.

sensorineural hearing loss

If Tom moves his watchband up his wrist an inch, he will feel it for only a few moments. This BEST illustrates:

sensory adaption

When Sheila arrived at the gym on Tuesday morning, she noticed that musty odor of the showers in the locker room. As she finished changing, she did not notice the smell. This is probably the result of:

sensory adaption

The primary area of the brain that processes sound in the _____ lobe.

temporal

When people see the mouth movements for "ga" while hearing "ba", they may perceive "da". This best illustrates:

the McGurk effect

While at work, Tim experiences a ringing -in- the - ears sensation known as:

tinnitus

Rebecca has had a cold for five days, and her nose is so stuffy she cannot smell anything. When she goes to drink her coffee she realizes it has no taste. What is the most likely reason for this?

to savor a taste, people may need to breathe the aroma through their noses

Information processing is guided by higher- level mental processes such as when a person constructs perceptions drawing on that person's experience and expectations. This process is called:

top-down processing

_____ refers to the conversation of one form of energy into another.

transduction

Happy Moon Restaurant uses monosodium glutamate in most of its dishes to enhance the flavor. This also stimulates the fifth sense of:

umami

_____ refers to the distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the peak of the next.

wavelength