Psychology Chapter 6 - Trouble Areas

Effectively designing physical environments - such as the layout of a kitchen - in a way that maximizes safe and efficient meal preparation is of special interest to

human factor psychologist.

Damage to the temporal lobe area of the brain essential for facial recognition produces a loss of

perception.

After a small section of his basilar membrane was damaged, Jason experienced a noticeable loss of hearing for high-pitched sounds only. Jason's hearing loss is best explained by the ________ theory.

place

The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the rods and cones, is the

retina.

Humans experience the longest visible electromagnetic waves as

the color red and the shortest visible waves as blue-violet.

As people grow older, they are most likely to need glasses because:

the lens loses its ability to change shape readily.

The axons of ganglion cells converge to form

the optic nerve.

The patient "E.H." suffers from prosopagnosia and is unable to recover her own face in a mirror. Her difficulty stems from a deficiency in

top-down processing.

When informed that a brief imperceptible message would be flashed repeatedly during a popular TV program, many viewers reported feeling strangely hungry or thirsty during the show. Since the imperceptible message had nothing to do with hunger or thirst, viewers' strange reactions best illustrate:

a placebo effect.

The greatest difficulty facing contemporary parapsychology is the

lack of reproducible ESP phenomenon.

Cocking your head would be most useful for detecting the ______ of a sound.

location

Psychologists are skeptical about the existence of ESP because

many apparent demonstrations of ESP have been shown to be staged illusions.

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to result in

nerve deafness.