Practice Questions Flashcards
(22 cards)
Which of the following is an example of transduction?
A) Your stomach digesting the food you just ate
B) Your heart rate quickening when you are nervous
C) 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”
D) When your knee jerks after the doctor hits it with a reflex hammer
C
Weber’s Law states that the just noticeable difference of a stimulus is
A) not proportional to its original intensity
B) directly proportional to its original intensity
C) inversely proportional to its original intensity with sound perception
D) inversely proportional to its original intensity
B
Subliminal advertising is proven to have
A) positive side effects for consumers
B) a minimal effect on one’s thinking
C) an enormous effect on one’s thinking
D) by-passed our decision making part of the brain
B
Gustav Fechner’s work in psychophysics involved exploring
A) how we reach absolute threshold
B) how external stimuli affect us
C) how we affect other objects
D) how subliminal advertising affects us
B
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 doesn’t even notice the noise. Lauren is experiencing
A) subliminal advertising
B) Weber’s Law
C) sensory adaptation
D) absolute threshold
C
4 year old Ruby is able to maintain enough attention to watch a 2 minute video about the alphabet. What type of attention is Ruby displaying?
A) sustained attention
B) alternating attention
C) selective attention
D) divided attention
A
Kayla has developed the ability to focus on one stimulus when presented with many stimuli. What type of attention does Kayla have?
A) alternating attention
B) selective attention
C) divided attention
D) sustained attention
B
Ryan is able to shift attention back and forth between different tasks. He has ________ attention
A) divided
B) selective
C) sustained
D) alternating
D
Which of the following is an example of divided attention?
A) dribbling a basketball while switching hands
B) choosing to listen to music instead of watching the television
C) watching a movie for 2 hours
D) driving while talking on your cell phone
D
In which order does light enter the eye?
A) iris, cornea, and then the pupil
B) cornea, lens, and then the pupil
C) pupil, cornea, and then the iris
D) cornea, pupil, and then the lens
D
According to the opponent-process theory, how are colors processed?
A) We process colors as three sets of opponent colors: red/yellow, blue/red, and blue/yellow.
B) We process colors as three cones: yellow, blue, and red.
C) We process colors as three sets of opponent colors: red/green, yellow/blue, and white/black.
D) We process colors as three sets of opponent colors: red/yellow, blue/yellow, and white/black.
C
How can the retina be best described?
A) It is the black part at the center of your eye.
B) It is a small opening that leads to the lens.
C) It is the outermost part of our eyeball.
D) It is a layer of tissue that lines the inner part of the eye.
D
The slightly different images a person’s two eyes send to the brain is known as
A) motion parallax
B) linear perspective
C) relative size
D) position cue
E) retinal disparity
E
In Gibson and Walk’s visual cliff experiment, young babies who were presented with a Plexiglas-covered drop-off _____.
A) tried to cross when they perceived the depth but not the danger of falling
B) tried to cross because they couldn’t perceive the depth, nor did they sense the danger of falling
C) tried to cross despite perceiving the depth and potential danger of falling
D) refused to cross because they sensed danger, though they couldn’t perceive the depth
E) refused to cross because they perceived the depth and inherent danger of the fall
E
Which one of the following situations illustrates the motion parallax?
A) While speeding down the highway, you notice that the two sides of the road appear to converge at the horizon.
B) While painting a picture, you notice that you must overlap some objects to create the illusion of depth.
C) While speaking on stage, you notice that people on the back row look fuzzier than those on the front row.
D) While watching a 3D movie, you notice that the special glasses bring together two slightly different pictures to create the 3D effect.
E) While riding on a train, you notice that the trees that are closer appear to go by faster than those in the distance.
E
Monocular depth cues include all of the following, EXCEPT
A) linear perspective
B) interposition
C) relative size
D) convergence
E) position cue
D
How is a conversation at 60 decibels different from an 80 decibel vacuum cleaner?
A) The vacuum cleaner is 1,000 times louder than the conversation.
B) The vacuum cleaner is 100 times louder than the conversation.
C) The vacuum cleaner is 10 times louder than the conversation.
D) The vacuum cleaner is 20 times louder than the conversation
B
According to the place theory of hearing, our ears transmit information by firing neurons from different parts of the
A) cochlea
B) pinna
C) cilia
D) eardrum
A
What is the weakness found in the frequency theory of hearing?
A) Neurons fire too fast for certain low-pitched sounds
B) Neurons fire too often for certain low-pitched sounds
C) Neurons can’t fire as fast as certain high-pitched sounds
D) Neurons can’t fire as fast as certain low-pitched sounds
C
Which of the following routes shows how sound waves enter the ear and are processed?
A) From eardrum to cochlea to cilia to pinna to ossicles
B) From pinna to ossicles to eardrum to pinna to cilia to cochlea
C) From pinna to eardrum to ossicles to cochlea to cilia
D) From cochlea to eardrum to pinna to cilia to ossicles
C
Short sound waves are characterized by
A) being too high to hear
B) a high frequency and a high pitch
C) being louder than long sound waves
D) a low frequency and a low pitch
B
