Psychology 1010 - Sensation and Perception Questions
________-frequency sound waves are perceived as high-pitched sounds, while ________-frequency sound waves are perceived as low-pitched sounds.
high; low
What is described by the concept of perception?
how sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced
Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?
Gestalt
________ is an example of a monocular cue.
Interposition
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.
Which theory holds that the pitch we hear is determined by the particular location on the cochlea where the hair cells vibrate the most?
Place theory
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.
The opponent-process theory is supported by ________.
afterimages
Auditory receptor cells are embedded within the ________, which is found in the ________.
basilar membrane; cochlea
The organ of Corti on the ________ within the ________ changes vibrations into impulses that travel to the auditory nerve.
basilar membrane; cochlea
Because taste and smell have sensory receptors that respond to molecules, they are considered ________.
chemical senses
Light energy with very low amplitude would be perceived as ________. Responses
dim
Illusions are valuable to psychologists because they are used to ________.
explore what people experience and what parts of the brain are involved in perception
Loudness is to amplitude as pitch is to ________.
frequency
Pitch is determined by the ________ of sound waves.
frequency
Which of the following describes the change in stimulus strength required to detect a difference between the stimuli?
just noticeable
Martha is working on her swing at softball practice and is focusing on keeping her elbow out high and her arm turned with her shoulders back. This awareness of her own movement through space is called ________.
kinesthesia
If you walk through a busy crowd and feel a few different people bump and push past you as they walk by, which skin receptors would be activated?
mechanoreceptors
Merkel's disks and Ruffini corpuscles are examples of ________.
mechanoreceptors
_______ cues require only one eye.
monoculiar
Mariah is nervous about giving birth to her first baby, but takes a hypnobirthing class and becomes excited about the possibility of having a pain-free birth. The idea that Mariah can control her pain experience in consistent with the ________.
motivation-decision model
Pain that results from damage to neurons of the peripheral or central nervous system is called ________.
neuropathic pain
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
Which nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain?
optic
The ________ carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
optic nerve
What allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and jump out of her truck without thinking about it?
proprioception
According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, cones in the retina are responsive to ________.
red, green, and blue
________ is what happens when information is detected by a sensory receptor, like when Maggie's optic nerves pick up a light flashing in the distance.
sensation
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?
sensory adaptation
When Martha first visits her Aunt and Uncle's house, the smell of fish is overwhelming, but after an hour, she doesn't even notice it's there. What explains this?
sensory adaptation
When surrounded by larger circles, a center circle will appear ________ than if surrounded by smaller circles.
smaller
Which of the following exemplifies olfaction?
smelling cookies in the oven
Congenital deafness is ________.
something someone is born with
A stimulus presented below the absolute threshold is called
subliminal
Which of the following senses is best described as a chemical sense?
taste
The ________ best explains how we hear at low frequencies.
temporal theory
Which of the following theories is currently thought to provide the best explanation for how we perceive low frequencies (below 150 hz)?
temporal theory
If your eyes see someone saying "ball" but the word you hear is "doll", the struggle to make sense of that information in your brain is consistent with ________.
the McGurk effect
Which was the dependent variable in Jessica Witt's study?
the size of the circle drawn by the participant and the number of successful putts
Which was the independent variable in Jessica Witt's study?
the size of the holes projected around the golf hole
Fantasia experiences vertigo and balance issues due to some damage to her inner ear. This is an issue with ________.
the vestibular sense
According to Gestalt psychology, ________.
the whole is different from the sum of its parts.
Multi-modal perception is the idea that ________.
various sensory modalities are integrated
The McGurk effect occurs when ________.
we combine information from speech and from the way the speaker's lips are moving to hear something different from either
At a football game, your friend from ten rows down yells at you to bring them some of your popcorn. At first you couldn't understand what they were asking, but once you saw their mouth, you could make out the request. This is consistent with the ________.
with the results of the Sumby and Pollack study on the audiovisual advantage
If you are in a crowded room at a noisy party having a conversation with an interesting new acquaintance, studies show that if you are looking at him while talking, ________.
you are more likely to hear what he is saying