Psychology chapter 5 online quiz

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 ________. Merkel's theory the law of thermoception the principle of transduction Weber's law

Weber's law

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. absolute threshold just noticeable difference Weber's signal detection

signal detection

The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe. frontal parietal occipital temporal

temporal

Vinnie is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The ________ sense helps keep him balanced so he has less chance of falling over. nociception proprioception somatosensation vestibular

vestibular

Petra walks into a brightly lit Psychology lab to participate in an experiment involving the ability to perceive the colors of the rainbow. Which photoreceptors will be most useful during this experiment? cones fovea lens rods

cones

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 ________. a just noticeable difference subliminal perception top-down processing transduction

transduction

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

nociception

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

Gestalt

Two lines appear to be a different length, though in reality they are the same length. This is known as the ________ illusion. Meissner Ménière Merkel Müller-Lyer

Müller-Lyer

Which nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain? corneal acoustic optic gustatory

optic

How does a cochlear implant enable the deaf to hear? It receives incoming sound information and bypasses the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain through the optic nerve. It receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain. It receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the basilar membrane to transmit information to the brain. It receives incoming sound information and indirectly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain.

It receives incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit information to the brain.

________ 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. Perception; transduction Perception; sensation Transduction; perception Sensation; perception

Perception; sensation

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. attention friendship habit mood

attention

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? good continuation closure proximity contiguity

closure

Light waves are first transmitted through the ________ at the front of the eye and enter an opening called the ________ before shining onto the retina. cornea; pupil sclera; lens lens; sclera pupil; cornea

cornea; pupil

One principle of civil engineering is that when you design a highway you should have traffic flow in the same direction and avoid interruptions to that flow as much as possible. Exit ramps tend to be curved so that cars don't have to stop rather than having 90-degree angles that force stops and starts. This is an application of which Gestalt principle? good continuation closure proximity contiguity

good continuation

As you are talking to a friend on your cell phone, you might find that you can't hear them because they are speaking very softly. If you ask them to "speak up," from a physical perspective you are asking them to ________ of the sound waves they are producing. increase the frequency increase the amplitude decrease the frequency decrease the amplitude

increase the amplitude

Which perceptual system allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on her hands? gustation proprioception somatosensation thermoception

proprioception

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? proximity closure contiguity figure-ground

proximity

Which of these is not one of the structures that comprises the outer ear? the basilar membrane the pinna the auditory canal the eardrum

the basilar membrane

What does the place theory of pitch perception suggest? Different amplitudes of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different waves. Receptors on different portions of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies. Different portions of the ear are sensitive to sounds of different decibels. Receptors on different sections of the malleus, incus, and stapes are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies.

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

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 an atom's nucleus. an atom. a honeybee. a building.

a building.

Wesley is in a movie theater with no windows—the only light is low illumination from the emergency lights on the floor. Which photoreceptors will be most useful to Wesley as he attempts to leave the theater? cones fovea iris rods

rods

Within the visible spectrum, our experience of red is associated with ________ waves of light. higher amplitude longer wavelengths shorter wavelengths lower amplitude

longer wavelengths

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 ________. binocular disparity similarity good continuation a figure-ground relationship

a figure-ground relationship