Psychology Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

Phantom limb sensations and other experiences of amputees show that the brain can produce pain in the absence of:

normal sensory input.

When people see the mouth movements for "ga" while hearing "ba," they may perceive "da." This BEST illustrates:

the McGurk effect.

This researcher published articles that appeared to support ESP. However, other researchers have failed to duplicate his results with his own data.

Daryl Bem

_____ includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

Extrasensory perception

_____ is the controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input.

Extrasensory perception

Marlene wakes up early in the morning and her room is fairly dark. She looks over and sees her shirt hanging on a hook. She knows it's her red shirt because she hung it up there before she went to bed, but in the dark she cannot see its color. It looks dark gray to her. Why is that?

In the dim light, the cones in a person's eyes are ineffectual

Rebecca has had a cold for five days and her nose is so blocked that she cannot smell anything. When she goes to drink her coffee, she realizes it has no taste. What is the MOST likely reason for this phenomenon?

To savor a taste, she may need to breathe the aroma through her nose.

The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina is called the:

lens.

This coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called the:

cochlea.

Dennis, a nurse, notes that some parents of asthmatic children respond to very small changes in their children's breathing while the child is in the hospital. However, the same parents might not notice the same small changes at home. This type of difference in reaction to stimuli is BEST explained by:

context effects.

Kendra went to a fundraiser, and the organizers gave her a mug of coffee when she arrived. Later, she felt closer to the organizers and contributed generously to the cause. What might be occurring in this scenario?

embodied cognition

These nerve cells in the brain respond to specific features of a stimulus.

feature detectors

A researcher subliminally flashes words that have either emotionally positive content or negative content immediately before showing the subjects a picture of a house. Then, asked to rate the house in terms of attractiveness, the participants tend to:

give the houses that follow positive content images higher ratings.

In MOST cases, hearing loss is a result of damage to the:

hair cells.

The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light is called:

hue.

The height of a sound wave determines this aspect of hearing.

loudness

Relative size, interposition, and relative height are examples of _____ cues.

monocular

In terms of vision, _____ is the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or inverted visual field.

perceptual adaptation

Experiments have shown that _____ activates unconscious associations.

priming

Suzanna was in a horrible car accident, resulting in damage to her temporal lobe. She can sense facial features, but cannot recognize the face itself. Thus, shown a picture of a familiar face, her autonomic nervous system might react, but she has no clue as to the identity of the person. This condition is known as:

prosopagnosia.

Brent believes in "mind over matter" and thinks that some people are able to move objects with their mind. This ability that he believes in is an example of:

psychokinesis

A set of twins is playing "Ring Around the Rosie" with their little cousins and are spinning around and around. When they stop, they still feel as though they are spinning because the fluid in their _____ and _____ have not returned to their neutral state.

semicircular canals; kinesthetic receptors

As pain is in the brain, the use of which type or piece of technology allows burn patients to distract themselves from painful procedures and diverts the brain's attention?

virtual reality