General Psychology Chapter 5 Quiz

What is vertigo?

spinning sensation

What is amplitude?

the height of a wave

What kind of processing is exemplified by the following scenario? Shimon offers Mouin some salmon. Mouin thinks, "How nice, My friend is offering me fish. I wonder where he got it." This thought leads Mouin to feel happy, appreciative, and curios: he responds with a smile and an extended hand.

top-down

Honeybees can see light in the _____ range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

ultraviolet

In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, what other taste groupings do we possess?

umami and fat content

How does a cochlear implant enable the deaf to hear?

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

Kimya stares at a bright light and then looks away. After she looks away, she perceives a spot. What is this spot?

afterimage

_________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives.

binocular

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

Light waves are transmitted across the ______ and enter the ye through the _______.

cornea; pupil

When light levels are low, the pupil will become ________, to allow more light to enter the eye.

dilated

Which of the following describes the difference in stimuli required to detect a difference between the stimuli?

just noticeable

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

nociception

What is the X-shaped that sits just below the brain's ventral surface and represents the merging of the optic nerves from the two eyes?

optic chiasm

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?

rods

Congenital deafness refers to deafness _________.

since birth

Which of the following exemplifies olfaction?

smelling cookies in the oven

______ is exemplified by stroking the hand of another person.

somatosensation

Read the following two sentences. (1) Gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.

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 phon 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 ________.

Weber's law