EXAM 2025

Question 1

What is the stimulation of sensory receptors in a transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

What is the visual sensation that occurs after an original stimulus has been removed

Answer 2

After image

Question 3

What is the tendency to perceive and complete a whole figure

Answer 3

Closure

Question 4

What is the psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation

Answer 4

Perception

Question 5

Distinguishing between 2 shades of red is an example of

Answer 5

Difference threshold

Question 6

What laws of sensory perception does each liilstraton represent

It’s circles going over eachother

Answer 6

Overlapping

Question 7

Light enters the eye through

Answer 7

Pupil

Question 8

Rubbing a soar area may lessing the pain because

Answer 8

The nervous systen can only hanfel so much at a time

Question 9

The smellin chart is used to measure

Answer 9

Visual acuity

Question 10

What parts of the eye enables people to perceive color

Answer 10

Cones

Question 11

Convergence is an example of

Answer 11

Biocular cue

Question 12

The cones in a retina are sensitive to

Answer 12

All of the above

Question 13

What does a person’s muscular sense help control

Answer 13

Balance

Question 14

Whixh of the floow9ng us not part of the skins senses

Answer 14

Smell

Question 15

Inusional movement produced by the rapid progression of images that are not moving is

Answer 15

Stroboscopic motion

Question 16

Visual illusions are caused by which of the follwoing

Answer 16

Brains use of perceptual constancy

Question 17

What is the term meaning the sharpenss of vison

Answer 17

Visual acuity

Question 18

A molecular cue showing depth that says that nearby objects tend to appear more detailed in front of objects less deatiled

Answer 18

Clearness

Question 19

What is the senss that detects poison in the body and makes us vomit

Answer 19

Vestibular sense

Question 20

The sense of taste can be disrupted by

Answer 20

Sense of smell

Question 21

What is the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that transmits sound pules to the auditory nerve

Answer 21

Cochlea

Question 22

The way we perceive objects is determined by

Answer 22

All of above

Question 23

Signal detection theory attempts to find

Answer 23

How psychological factors affect perception

Question 24

What laws of sensory perception does each illsitatoin represent

Answer 24

Continuity

Question 25

What is the lens of the eye responsible for

Answer 25

Keep focus

Question 26

A bird has to wear a patch on one eye which of the following cues of depth perception will be unavailable

Answer 26

Convergence

Question 27

Many older people become far sighted as

Answer 27

The lens gets more brital

Question 28

What is the type of deatbness in which sounds of certain frequencies are not heard

Answer 28

Sensorinal

Question 29

What gives us information about 3d shapes

Answer 29

Shadow and highlights

Question 30

Even with eyes closed the person knows about the position of their body parts because of what

Answer 30

Kinethesis

Question 31

What is the part of the ear that amplifier sound or soundwaves entering the ear

Answer 31

Middle ear

Question 32

Which of the following is not a gestalt principal

Answer 32

Illusion

Question 33

What are the colors across front eachother on a color circle

Answer 33

Complimentary

Question 34

What is the perceptual tendency to group together elements that tend to be alike

Answer 34

Similarty

Question 35

What is the process by which I'm used of the distinguishing smell whenever I'm in birth dirty car

Answer 35

Sensory adaptation

Question 36

What laws of sensory perception does this illus9on represent

Answer 36

Closure

Question 37

What is the bundle of nerves carrying sound fron the coclhea to the brain

Answer 37

Auditory nerve

Question 38

The fact that a friend walking toward you does not get any bigger is an example of

Answer 38

Size constancy

Question 39

The sensible surface of the eye that acts like the film of a camera

Answer 39

Retina

Question 40

Adults who are born blind qnd have their visok restored

Answer 40

Fail to recognize familiar objects

Question 41

What sense dominates our ability to taste food and liquid

Answer 41

Oldactory

Question 42

What is the smallest amount of particular stimulus that can be detected

Answer 42

Absolute threshold

Question 43

Whixh of the following explains why rose appears equally red and bright in dim light

Answer 43

Color constancy

Question 44

What are specialized receptors cells that are responsible for night vison

Answer 44

Rods