PSYC 1200 -- Exam 2 || All Questions Answered Correctly.
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Perception correct answers Apprehending objects and events in the environment, sensing them, identifying them, and reacting to them implies what process?
absolute threshold correct answers A man has trouble hearing and is being tested for a hearing aid. He is presented with tones of various inte...
PSYC 1200 -- Exam 2 || All Questions Answered Correctly.
Perception correct answers Apprehending objects and events in the environment, sensing them,
identifying them, and reacting to them implies what process?
absolute threshold correct answers A man has trouble hearing and is being tested for a hearing
aid. He is presented with tones of various intensities and is asked to indicate whenever he detects
a sound. The procedure is most similar to that used by researcher who study what?
signal detection theory correct answers When you walk into your classroom, you notice the
words "matrix", "hits", and "false alarms" written on the blackboard. You can conclude that the
topic discussed in the previous class was most probably what?
Difference Threshold correct answers You try a new potato chip and it tastes great to you
encourage a friend to try it. He tastes a new chip, then an old-style chip, and finally says that as
far as he is concerned, all potato chips taste the same. The behavior of your friend is most similar
to what might occur in a study of what?
Yes because a person will be more sensitive o changes in odor than changes in taste correct
answers A consultant is trying to convince a manufacturer that changing the taste of their drink
product slightly will not be detected as much as if they were in the perfume business where the
clients would detect a similar slight change in odor. Based on Weber's research with different
sense dimensions, is the consultant's claim accurate and if so, why?
Rods are adjusting correct answers A child notices that, after he is tucked into bed at night and
the light is turned off, he cant see much of anything. But if he keeps his eyes open, over time he
can see his toys scattered around the room. He doesn't know if but this dark adaptation comes
about because of what?
Receptive fields of cells in the visual cortex (simple, complex, hypercomplex) correct answers
What types of cortical cells were described by Hubel and Wiesel in their Nobel Prize-winning
studies of visual processing?
Wavelengths of light, complementary colors, subtractive color mixture correct answers When a
child combines the yellow and blue crayon colors in her drawing, the resulting color is green.
Why is this so?
Red vs green, blue vs yellow, black vs white correct answers What pairs of opponent elements
were part of the opponent-process theory proposed by Ewald Hering?
pure tone has one frequency and one amplitude (timbre) correct answers A child loves it when
the piano tuned comes. His tuning forks have such a clear sound. The child doesn't know it, but
that is because a tuning fork produces a pure tone which has what?
located between outer and middle ear, transmit sound from outer to middle ear correct answers
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup and where are they located?
, place theory and different frequency produced movement in different places on the basilar
membrae correct answers What has research on the perception of pitch shown?
chemicals that signal sexual or territorial reactions correct answers What are pheromones?
joints, muscles, tendons correct answers Where are the kinesthetic receptors located?
stimulus driven attention correct answers A child has discovered that he can type with his eyes
closed. He even realizes when he has made an error before he sees his mistake. This new-found
ability can be attributed most directly to what?
law of good continuation correct answers From her seat in the top row of the stadium, the
football fan had a great view of the halftime entertainment. As she watched, two large groups of
band members were marching toward, then through one another, in opposite directions. The
ability to keep track of each separate group is made possible by which Gestalt law?
brain fills in the gaps from what we are able to perceive correct answers Research suggests that
our moment-to-moment visual impressions of the world do not preserve precise details. What is
a possible reason for this less-than-perfect representation?
give impression of depth correct answers An art student admires the way an artist has used
texture gradients in a painting in order to give the appearance of depth. If the student were to
attempt to duplicate this technique, she would need to do what?
depth perception correct answers As you leave the classroom, you see a friend at the end f the
hall. Although your retinal image of your friend is much smaller than it would be if he were
standing right next to you, you do not notice anything unusual about his height. This is most
clearly an example of what?
context clues to fill in ambiguity correct answers You think you recognize the woman in the
grocery store line, but you can't quite seem to place her. Later, when you see her in a familiar
setting of the restaurant where she is a waitress, you make the connection. This best illustrates
the importance to perceptual identification of what?
distal;proximal correct answers Suppose you are looking at a globe of the world. Although the
______ is a sphere, you'd expect the ______ to be a circle.
sensory adaptation correct answers When you first walked into a room, you were overwhelmed
by the smell of someone's perfume. Over time, you become less aware of the smell. This is an
example of?
50 correct answers You are carrying out an experiment in which you want to find a difference
threshold for soft drinks that vary in their sugar concentration. You want to find the point at
which the stimuli are recognized as different what percentage of the time?
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