Psych 7A: Chapter 6

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The process by which we organize and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and
events is called

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perception

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The effect of prior experience and current expectations on perception best illustrates the importance of

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Top-down processing

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Psychophysics is best defined as the study of relationships between

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absolute thresholds and difference thresholds

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The absolute threshold is the minimum amount of stimulation that a person needs to detect a stimulus

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50% of the time

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Which of the following strategies best illustrates the use of subliminal stimulation?

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A trim female figure is imperceptibly flashed on the TV screen during an ad for a weight-reduction clinic.

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Subliminal priming effects best illustrate

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that information can be processed outside of conscious awareness.

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Those who believe in the value of subliminal audiotapes would be wrong to claim that

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unconsciously processed information is unusually persuasive.

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If the just-noticeable difference for a 10ounce weight is 1 ounce, the just noticeable difference for an 80-ounce weight
would be ________ ounce(s).

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8

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If we could stop our eyes from quivering as we stared at a stationary object, the object would probably

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vanish from sight.

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The area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye is called the

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blind spot

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The nerve cells that respond to specific aspects of a visual stimulus, such as its shape or its movement, are

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feature detectors

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Certain stroke victims report seeing nothing when shown a series of sticks, yet they are able to correctly report whether
the sticks are vertical or horizontal. This best illustrates

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blindsight

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When most people stare at a red square and then shift their eyes to a white surface, the afterimage of the square is

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green

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. The auditory cortex is most responsive to visual input among those who

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have been deaf from birth

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With her eyes closed, Sierra can accurately touch her mouth, nose, and chin with her index finger. Sierra's accuracy
illustrates the importance of

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kinesthesis.

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. Phantom limb sensations best illustrate that pain can be experienced in the absence of

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sensory input.

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Experimenters bent a finger slightly backward on the unseen hands of 16 volunteers, while simultaneously severely
bending a finger on a visible fake rubber hand. This experiment illustrated the impact of ________ on the volunteers'
experience of pain

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phantom limb sensations

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People with persistent arm pain experienced a reduction in pain after receiving acupuncture with trick needles that
retracted without puncturing the skin. The fake acupuncture treatment could best be described as a

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placebo

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Research indicates that we have a receptor for a seeming fifth taste sensation, the meaty taste of

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umami

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Gestalt psychologists emphasized that

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we organize sensory information into meaningful forms.

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The Gestalt principles of proximity and similarity refer to ways in which we

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organize stimuli into coherent groups.

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Infants are especially likely to avoid crawling over the edge of a visual cliff if they

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have a lot of previous crawling experience.

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A 3D movie enhances our sense of depth perception by simulating the effects of

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retinal disparity.

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The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as

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linear perspective.

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If two identical objects are equally distant from a viewer, the brighter object appears to be

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closer.

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The perception that Bugs Bunny is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates

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stroboscopic movement

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Perceiving objects as having consistent shape, size, and color regardless of the angle, distance, and lighting conditions
from which we view them is known as

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perceptual set.

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The Moon just above the horizon typically appears to be unusually

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large because we perceive it as unusually close to ourselves

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The Ames illusion involving two girls who are perceived as very different in size can best be explained in terms of

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the misperception of distance.

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In one experiment, preschool children judged french fries as tasting better when served in a McDonald's bag rather than
a plain white bag. This best illustrates the impact of

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perceptual set

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Schemas are best described as

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concepts that organize sensory input.

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An integrated understanding of perception in terms of our sensory capacities, cultural contexts, and Gestalt principles is
most clearly provided by

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a biopsychosocial approach

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Psychologists who help design machines so that they make use of our natural perceptions are called

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human factors psychologists

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The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called

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parapsychology.

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Shauna claims that she knows at any given moment exactly what important political figures are thinking. Shauna is
claiming to possess the power of

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telepathy.

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Scientific analyses of the predictive powers of dreams offer support for the existence of

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precognition

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Thousands of controlled experiments indicate that

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there is no reliable evidence that anyone possesses ESP