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Which of the following statements is true about taste? The back of the tongue contains receptors for bitter Taste so that we can spit out potentially poisonous food. Taste is a contact sense while small is a chemical sense Tastants are pleasant stimuli and odorants are unpleasant stimuli All areas of the tongue contain taste receptor cells that are capable of responding to every taste

All areas of the tongue contain taste receptor cells that are capable of responding to every taste

Of the following, who described the uncanny valley, at least in part? all of the other options are correct Sigmund Freud Masahiro Mori Ernst Jentsch

All of the other options

Which of the following features of a CGI character are suggested as possible contributions to the uncanny valley effect? Realistic facial proportions realistic skin unrealistic skin all of the other options

All of the other options

Which of the following is a famous example of the uncanny valley in animation? Polar Express All of the other options Beowolf The Adventures of Tintin

All of the other options

________ are more suited to processing _________ than __________. all of the other options are correct Cones; detail; rods. Rods; stimuli under low light conditions; cones. Cones; color; rods.

All of the other options are correct

fMRI evidence has provided data to help understand ____________. all of the other options are correct neural areas associated with creepiness the uncanny valley neural areas associated with the uncanny valley

All of the other options are correct

Which of the following describes the uncanny valley? our perception of humanlike stimuli abruptly shifts from empathy to revulsion as it approaches, but fails to attain a lifelike appearnce our affinity for humanlike stimuli increases with similarity to humans until we come to a valley all other When a stimulus seems at once human and inhuman, causing cognitive dissonance that settles into a feeling of fear or repulsion.

All other8

According to the detailed graph of the uncanny valley included in the translation of the original uncanny valley article, which of the following stimuli are associated with the highest affinity? Bunraku puppets prosthetic hands humanoid robots zombies

Banraku Puppets

Which of the following is a famous example of the uncanny valley in animation? The Incredibles Beowolf all of the other options are correct Brave

Beowolf

___________ necessary for 3D vision. Sensory adaptation is Rods are all of the other options are correct Binocular disparity is

Binocular disparity

The sense of smell is sometimes referred to as a "chemical sense" because __________. chemical stimuli are transformed into electrical signals smells are processed in the chemical cortex electrical stimuli are transformed into chemical signals chemicals often have a strong, noticeable smell

Chemical stimuli are transformed into electrical signals

The uncanny valley is associated with the concept of __________. sex all of the other options are correct death monotonicity

Death

Of the following, who first described the uncanny valley, at least in part? Masahiro Mori Erst Jentsch Sigmust Freud Karl MacDorman

Ersnt Jentsch

Which of the following stimuli are extremely difficult to render in a manner that avoids the uncanny valley effect? ears all of the other options are correct eye color head of hair

Head of hair

According to the detailed graph of the uncanny valley included in the translation of the original uncanny valley article, which of the following stimuli are associated with the HIGHEST affinity? prosthetic hands Bunraku Puppets humanoid robots ill humans

Ill humans

When Siobhan witnesses a car accident she sense both the sight of it and the sound of it. These combine to create her perception and this is an example of________ Synthesia Sensory Interference Inverse Effectiveness Multimodal Perception

Multimodal Perception

Potential explanations for the uncanny valley effect have involved __________. industrial robots toy cars natural selection all of the other options are correct

Natural Selection

Hallucinations associated with altered states of consciousness, such as drug and pathological states, are best described as ___________. physical stimuli in the absence of sensation and perception. sensation in the absence of perception and any physical stimulus. all of the other options are correct perception in the absence of sensation and any physical stimulus.

Perception in the absence of sensation and any phsical stimulus

Cortical areas are necessary for_________ Perception bottom up processing all other sensation

Perception(this is a guess) All the other is WRONG

Which of the following are cortical areas? mechanoreceptors all of the other primary samotsensory cortex Thalamus

Primary Somatosensory Cortex

At the back of the brain is the _____which is primarily responsible for early processing of light, shapes, and movement. Parietal lobe frontal lobe primary visual cortex retina

Primary Visual Cortex

The uncanny valley effect is an important consideration for developers of _____________. suburban housing robotics movie scripts all of the other options are correct

Robotics

When Janet feels the wind blowing on her face, this is an example of ____ Perception Sensation Transduction Signal Threshold

Sensation

Which of the following usually increase monotonically? the elevation of a hiking trail all of the other options are correct similarity creepiness

Similarity

The Uncanny wall is a term proposed by some to describe_______. humanlike stimuli increasing in affinity until they become too similar to humans, and then abruptly becoming repulsive the struggle for digital realism to keep up with viewer expectations all of the other options the "other side" of the uncanny valley

The struggle for digital realism to keep up with viewer expectations

Radhika is attempting to eat with chop sticks, for the first time, by following instructions that she memorized before her important business meeting a sushi restaurant. She is using ___________. Principle of inverse effectiveness Superadditive effect of multisensory integration Top-down processing Bottom-up processing

Top down

Light enters the eye and is converted into electrical signals that can be processed by the brain. This process is called Agnosia Light adaptation Transduction Binocular Vision

Transduction

Digital realism must keep up with _________, an effect that some have called the _____________. viewer expectations; uncanny wall viewer expectations; uncanny valley technology; uncanny wall technology; uncanny valley

Viewer expectations; uncanny wall

Which of the following are cortical areas? all of the other options are correct Primary Visual Cortex Fusiform Face Area (FFA) Parahippocampal Place Area (PPA)

WRONG

Charlie works for a moving company. He can easily tell the difference in weight between two small boxes but cannot detect any difference at all between the weight of the washing machine and the weight of the dryer. This is an example of ____________. Bottom-up processing Top-down processing Just Noticeable Differences Weber's Law

Weber's Law

According to the readings, neuroscientists are using______to better understand the uncanny valley for the purpose of people who develop robotics and computer animation. Experimental Approaches fMRI EEG all

all

Potential explanations for the uncanny valley effect have involved______. Movement perception all of the other evolution facial recognition

all

The uncanny valley is an important consideration for developers of _______. Artificial intelligence CGI animation plastic surgery all

all

"Sounding out" a work is a ______ approach to word reading top down inversely effective superadditive bottom-up

bottom up

The "where" pathway refers to the neural pathway traveling through the ________ portion of the cortex. posterior anterior ventral dorsal

dorsal

Somatosensation includes which of the following? chemoreception all of the other options are correct olfaction nociception

nociception

Odorants bind with olfactory receptors in the ______ olfactory epithelium anosmia cribriform plate primary somatosensory cortex

olfactory receptors

The fovea includes proportionally more_____than_______ Photoreceptors; cones rods; cones all of the other photoreceptors that process color and fine details; photoreceptors that are specialized for night vision

photoreceptors that process color and fine details; photoreceptors that are specialized for night vision

The "where" pathway refers to a neural pathway traveling from _______ regions of cortex to more______regions Posterior----_frontal frontal------posterior ventral---dorsal dorsal-----ventral

posterior----frontal

The vestibular system is primarily responsible for ____________. processing location and motion; problems would make it difficult to balance transforming chemical smells into electrical signals; problems would make it difficult to smell encoding and processing faces; problems would make it difficult to recognize friends sending pain and temperature signals from the skin to the brain; problems would make it difficult to feel pain

processing location and motion, problems would make it difficult to balance

The day Kim is in Nairobi she notices the honking, engine sounds, yelling and other street noises. By the second day, however, she no longer notices these. Which of the following is the best explanation? Partial hearing loss tympanic synthesis 3-d hearing Sensory adaption

sensory adaptation

According to the detailed graph of the uncanny valley included in the translation of the original uncanny valley article, which of the following stimuli are associated with the lowest affinity? stuffed animals ill humans humanoid robots bunraku puppets

stuffed animals

Somatosensation includes which of the following? balance all of the other tactition gustation

tactician

_______necessary for 3D vision webers law two different retinal images of a stimulus sensory adaptation is all of the other

two different retinal images of a stimulus are

Considering what you now know about the uncanny valley, the creepiness of which of the following stimuli can be explained at least in part with this concept? all of the other creepy houses black cats vampires

vampires

Prosopagnosia results from damage in the ____________ pathway. ventral where all of the other options are correct dorsal

ventral