Psych Chapter 4 Quiz

Front 1

Sensation

Back 1

the stimulation of visual receptors

Front 2

Perception

Back 2

recognizing an object

Front 3

which type of receptor is slower, but better at adapting to the dark?

Back 3

rods

Front 4

Which part of the eye contains the nerves?

Back 4

retina

Front 5

Perception of brightness of a color is affected mainly by:

Back 5

the amplitude of the light waves

Front 6

In dim light, the pupil of the eye is:

Back 6

Dilated; producing an image that is not as sharp

Front 7

Peripheral vision is not associated with:

Back 7

peripheral vision

Front 8

What happens when the pupils widen?

Back 8

Vision may begin to blur

Front 9

Past experiences and current expectations often influence the way we perceive sensory information because they create:

Back 9

a perceptual set

Front 10

we often perceive a series of dots on a printed form as a “solid” line because of the Gestalt principle of:

Back 10

Closure

Front 11

The perception of timbre corresponds to sound waves

Back 11

purity

Front 12

The physical stimuli for the sense of taste

Back 12

chemicals that are soluble in water

Front 13

The theory of hearing that views the basilar membrane as being like a drumhead is

Back 13

frequency theory

Front 14

which sensory system is the only one which does not involve the thalamus before projecting to the primary cortex?

Back 14

Olfactory System (smell)

Front 15

The pathway for pain that results in the experience of pain being less localized and longer lasting in the:

Back 15

slow pathway

Front 16

Structure that controls pupil size:

Back 16

iris

Front 17

Bland food taste better with a head cold because…

Back 17

flavor is influenced by smell as well as taste, and with a reduced sense of smell your sense of flavor will be diminished

Front 18

The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as …

Back 18

Gustatory

Front 19

incoming pain sensations must pass through and opening in the spinal cord and this opening could be closed, this blocking ascending pain signals; what theory is this referring too?

Back 19

gate-control theory

Front 20

Where are auditory stimuli changed into neural signals?

Back 20

cochlea

Front 21

A picture with parallel sides of a runway will lack depth because the failure to make use of the monocular depth cue of :

Back 21

linear perspective

Front 22

If you started to starve and see people as food, this would support the idea that visual information is processed:

Back 22

top-down

Front 23

How is visual info transmitted to the brain?

Back 23

signals from both eyes go to both hemispheres of the brain

Front 24

With color vision; the level of the cones color vision occurs via:

Back 24

trichromatic

Front 25

Involving color vision; the process in the thalamus and visual cortex is:

Back 25

opponent-process

Front 26

Non-tasters tend to have:

Back 26

fewer taste buds than super-tasters

Front 27

Stimulations of the sensory receptors of the skin are processed in the:

Back 27

parietal love