unit 3 psych test

which of the following is a binocular cue for depth perception?

retinal disparity

which of the following is the correct path a neural impulse will follow through the different layers of the retina?

rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

while at a pep rally, your ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded gymnasium is called?

selective attention

balance is influenced by the

semicircular canals

Harry is at a concert when a flute player hits a very high note at the end of a song. which of the following best explains why the pitch of the note sounds so high?

It has a short wavelength and high frequency

one-year-old maggie turns away in disgust if a bitter substance is placed on her tongue. The reason for such a reaction is most likely

an inborn distaste for bitter that protects us from potential poisons in the environment

when struck by light energy, cones and rods in the retina generate neural signals that then activate the

bipolar cells

the place in the retina where the optic nerve exits to the brain is called the

blind spot

the gestalt principle that refers to an individual's tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as whole is called?

closure

the colled tube in the inner ear that contains the auditory receptors is called the

cochlea

while at a crowded gathering, zoro realized that his attention was being drawn away from his conversation every time a person nearby said the word "exactly." zoro's response is an example of

cocktail party effect

even though it was nearly dark outside, kaci could still tell that the basketball she was playing with was orange. which of the following concepts is best illustrated in this example?

color constancy

individuals who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their?

cones

eleanor gibson used a visual cliff with a glass-covered drop-off to examine behavior in crawling infants. even when coaxed by their mothers to crawl out onto the glass covering, most infants refused to do so, indicating that they had developed which of the following?

depth perception

which of the following refers to the just-noticeable difference between two stimuli?

difference threshold

which of the following is an example of shape constancy?

even though the angle from which she viewed the table had changed, elise still perceived the table as rectangular

a subliminal stimulus is a stimulus that?

falls below the threshold for conscious detection

while attending a concert, zendaya finds that she can clearly recognize the lead violin player above all the other instruments members playing in the orchestra. gestalt psychologists would explain zendaya's ability using the principle of

figure-ground

the perceived pitch of a tone is largely determined by its

frequency

which of the following theories most accurately explains pitch perception?

frequency and place theory

mario fell off his skateboard and badly bruised his elbow. he immediately began rubbing the area around the bruise until the pain subsided. what method of pain control is this?

gate-control theory

If pamela stares at a red spot for one minute and then shifts her gaze to a white piece of paper, she is likely to experience an afterimage that is

green

damage to which of the following best explains conduction deafness?

hammer, anvil, stirrup

receptors for olfaction are located

in the nasal cavity

which monocular depth cue is illustrated in the figure above?

linear perspective

feature detectors are neurons that are turned off or on by specific features of visual stimuli like edges and mvmt. where in the visual system are feature detectors located?

occipital cortex

after staring at a green, black, and orange "american flag" for about a minute, anthony would see a red, white, and blue flag afterimage. which of the following explains this phenomenon?

opponent-process theory

after spending hours in her kitchen preparing dinner, jane no longer notices the strong smell of garlic until her guests arrive and mention the smell. her failure to notice the smell of garlic illustrates

sensory adaptation

when rosie has a cold, she cannot taste the flavor of her pizza. which of the following psychological terms describes rosa's inability to taste?

sensory interaction

the thalamus processes information for all of the following senses EXCEPT

smell

dominick has just hit play to begin listening to a new song he bought. based on the structure of the ear, what will the sound waves contact first after moving through dominick's auditory canal?

the eardrum

when a pair of lights flashing in quick succession seems to an observer to be one light moving from place to place, the effect is referred to as

the phi phenomenon

luis, a math major, sees the drawing above as a venn diagram. his brother, an art major, sees it as two circles. the difference in perception is an example of

top-down processing

the process of converting incoming physical energy into a neural code that can be processed is called?

transduction