psychology- chapter 3 online test

All of the following are examples of sensation EXCEPT: _______.

sleeping in a bed

Cooking grease splatters John while he is making breakfast, and he quickly jumps away from the stove. The pain he experiences is best described as ________ pain.

somatic

When you smell an odor, which aspect of the substance you are smelling actually enters your nose to create the sensation of smell?

particles of the substance itself

Research involving illusions:

provides valuable information about how the sensory receptors and sense organs work.

The ________ illusion tends to occur more in societies with lots of buildings that have straight lines and corners.

Müller-Lyer

Which of the following sounds would be least likely interpreted by the brain as a high pitch?

a mooing cow

There are two kinds of vestibular organs, the:

otolith organs and the semicircular canals

If a researcher finds that one drop of perfume diffused through a three-room apartment is the minimum amount of stimuli needed to notice the scent, then this would be a test of one's:

absolute threshold

The most common cause of conduction hearing impairment is:

an infection

When you smell bread baking, the bread odor particles:

are in the nose

________ cells have a single dendrite at one end and a single axon at the other.

bipolar

Cones are the special cells responsible for:

color vision

Dara tends to have motion sickness while spinning around during her gymnastics routine. Her teacher advises her that she can avoid this problem by:

focusing her eyes on a distant, fixed object

The tendency to believe that the dummy, not the ventriloquist, is doing the talking is largely due to:

contiguity

_________ is the rotation of the two eyes in their sockets to focus on a single object.

convergence

Brendon has trouble seeing colors because the cones in his eyes do not work properly. When Brendon does see color, he sees primarily in blues, yellows, and shades of gray and confuses reds and greens. Brendon suffers from ______.

dichromatic vision

__________ are sensitive to both motion and edges and will cause us to perceive a pencil moving rapidly up and down as if it is bending.

end-stopped neurons

How many primary taste sensations have been identified by researchers?

five

In opponent-process theory, there are _______ primary colors.

four

The ___________ focus on human perception can still be seen in basic principles today.

gestalt theorists'

Which of the following is TRUE about the Necker Cube?

it has conflicting sets of depth issues

Which of the following is TRUE about the moon illusion?

it is due to the mind's misapplication of size constancy

The research of Ernst Weber led to the formulation of a theory of:

just noticeable differences

The deep bass tones rattling the windows of the car next to you at a red light are at a:

low pitch

The ___________ contains the receptor cells for the sense of hearing.

organ of corti

As many as 50 to 80 percent of people who have had amputations experience a condition called:

phantom limb pain

What portion of the ear serves as a funnel for sound from the outside world?

pinna

Light bends as it passes through substances of different densities, a process known as:

refraction

Which part of the eye receives sensory signals and relays that information to the brain?

retina

The phi phenomenon is related to:

stroboscopic motion

Many people believe that some stimuli act upon the unconscious mind and influence behavior, a process called:

subliminal perception

Thomas Young's theory of color vision:

suggested that color vision is made possible by red, blue, and green cones.

kinesthetic sense involves:

the location of body parts in relation to the ground and to each other.

Sound waves and light waves share:

the properties of wavelength, amplitude, and purity

When you close your eyes and raise your hand above your head, you know where your hand is because of:

the vestibular sense

If you stare at something for a long time, it does not disappear because:

tiny movements of the eyes keep them from adapting to what they see.

The eardrum is also known as the:

tympanic membrane

Lindemann proposed that the most recent taste to be identified should be called:

umami

________ sense is the body process that is mostly to blame if you become dizzy after a long ride on a carousel at the amusement park.

vestibular

if you are experiencing habituation

your sensory receptors are still responding to stimuli