Psychology: Chapter 4 Quiz Questions
a minimal effect on one's thinking
Subliminal advertising is proven to have
sleep better and cry less.
The Baby-Friendly Initiative from the World Health Organization encourages hospitals to provide babies with skin-to-skin contact with their mothers after birth. Researchers have found that this helps babies to
refused to cross because they perceived the depth and inherent danger of the fall
In Gibson and Walk's visual cliff experiment, young babies who were presented with a Plexiglas-covered drop-off _____.
the retina converts electromagnetic light waves into electronic stimuli
In phototransduction,
Cornea, pupil and then the lens.
In which order does light enter the eye?
directly proportional to its original intensity
Weber's Law states that the just noticeable difference of a stimulus is
Neurons can't fire as fast as certain high-pitched sounds
What is the weakness found in the frequency theory of hearing?
Both rods and cones are located in the retina.
What is true about rods and cones?
Sense of proprioception
When walking, what sense (by way of specialized neurons) is responsible for knowing where your feet are in comparison to your trunk
When you place your hand on a hot stove, and the nerves in your hand send a message to the brain where the brain registers the stove as 'hot'
Which of the following is an example of transduction?
Sensation of earthiness and meatiness in a dinner
Which of the following senses is NOT part of the somatosensory system
While riding on a train, you notice that the trees that are closer appear to go by faster than those in the distance.
Which one of the following situations illustrates the motion parallax?
From pinna to eardrum to ossicles to cochlea to cilia
Which route shows how sound waves enter the ear and are processed?
prefer sweet tastes, but can taste everything.
With regards to taste, infants
taste
A stuffy nose can impact a person's sense of
We process colors as three sets of opponent colors: red/green, yellow/blue, and white/black.
According to the opponent-process theory, how are colors processed?
cochlea
According to the place theory of hearing, our ears transmit information by firing neurons from different parts of the _____.
fovea
Eyesight in newborns is poor because of a lack of development in the
how external stimuli affect us
Gustav Fechner's work in psychophysics involved exploring
It is a layer of tissue that lines the inner part of the eye.
How can the retina be best described?
The vacuum cleaner is 100 times louder than the conversation.
How is a conversation that at 60 decibels different from an 80 decibel vacuum cleaner?
hearing and smell
Infants recognize their mothers most directly through
sensory adaptation
Lauren has lived near the airport for over three years. She used to be bothered by the sound of the airplanes landing and taking off, but now she does not even notice the noise. Lauren is experiencing
convergence
Monocular depth cues include all of the following, EXCEPT _____.
two years old.
Most babies don't develop 20/20 vision until
aerial perspective
Objects appearing fuzzier the further away they are is defined as _____.
a high frequency and a high pitch
Short sound waves are characterized by _____.
10,000 odors, which is fewer than other mammals
The human nose can differentiate between approximately
touch and proprioception
The senses that are part of the somatosensory system are
pressure, hot, cold and pain
The skin has receptors that respond to
retinal disparity
The slightly different images a person's two eyes send to the brain is known as _____.
savory
Umami is another word for
taste and smell
You expect the following senses to be DECREASED in an elderly person
savory
You order the entrée 'umami chicken' at a restaurant. Therefore, the taste sensation you are expecting is
