Unit 3 Quiz Psychology

Which of the following scenarios most clearly describes the effects of a strong kinesthetic sense ?

Being able to tell exact bodily position without looking at the body

The place in the retina where the optic nerve exists to the brain is called the ?

Blind spot

The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the ? of light.

Brightness

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

Sensory Adaptation

The intensity at which a sound becomes audible for a given individual is known as the individual's ?

Absolute Threshold

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's ?

Audition

Janis volunteered to participate in a psychology experiment. When Janis arrives to the lab she is greeted by a lab assistant standing on the other side of a counter. The lab assistant explains the informed consent and asks her to sign the form. As the lab assistant reaches for the form he drops it behind the counter. The lab assistant reaches down behind the counter to pick up the form and unbeknownst to Janis another person stands up holding the form. After Janis signs the form, she is asked if she noticed the change. She replies that she did not. This phenomenon is known as:

Change blindness

The tendency of most people to identify a three-sided figure as a triangle, even when one of its sides is incomplete, is the result of a perceptual process known as ?

Closure

The coiled tube in the inner ear that contains the auditory receptors is called the ?

Cochlea

Negative afterimages are explained by ?

Color detection by rods

A person is asked to listen to a series of tones presented in pairs, and asked to say whether the tones in each pair are the same or different in pitch. In this situation the experimenter is most likely measuring the individual's ?

Difference Threshold

A subliminal stimulus is a stimulus that ?

Falls below the threshold for conscious detection

The perceived pitch of a tone is largely determined by its

Frequency

In a now classic study by Simons and Chabris (1999), study participants watched two teams pass a basketball among teammates. One team was wearing white shirts and the other was wearing black shirts. Participants were told to count how many times the team wearing the white shirts passed the basketball, thereby directing their attention to the white shirts and ignoring the black shirts. Interestingly, more than half of the study participants failed to notice when a man wearing a black gorilla suit walked right past the two teams. This phenomenon is known as ?

Inattentional Blindness

Without fail, when you are talking to your best friend about something important, she continues to check her phone and watch for people she knows. Nevertheless, she seems able to listen attentively and respond appropriately to what you are saying. This type of behavior is evidence of ?

Parallel Processing

The most common form of color blindness is related to deficiencies in the ?

Red-green system

In vision, transduction occurs within the ?

Retina

Drivers detect traffic signals more slowly if they are talking on a cell phone. This best illustrates the impact of ?

Selective Attention

Laura arrives at a park that is located very close to a factory that produces cookies. She immediately notices the strong odor of chocolate chip cookies, but after a while she no longer detects the smell of the cookies. This can best be explained by which of the following ?

Sensory adaptation

Which of the following is best described as a chemical sense ?

Smell

At a faculty party Dr. Sanchez is attentively listening to Dr. Chen talk about her latest research on facial recognition, when he suddenly becomes aware of someone mentioning his name on the other side of the room. This phenomenon is known as ?

The cocktail party effect

The occipital lobes contain ?

The primary visual cortex

People listening to rock music played backward often perceive an evil message if specifically told what to listen for. That phenomenon best illustrates ?

Top-down processing

The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of ?

Transduction

The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as ?

Weber's law