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Sensation is defined as the process by which organisms _____________________________. |
| | A) | detect stimuli in the environment |
| | B) | transform the energy of stimuli into electrochemical energy |
| | C) | respond to selected aspects of a stimulus |
| | D) | organize and interpret sensory information |
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A logic test asks students to complete the following number sequence: 1, 5, 9, _. This behavior is an example of _____________________. |
| | A) | an absolute threshold |
| | B) | top-down processing |
| | C) | bottom-up processing |
| | D) | subliminal processing |
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A music student who learns that a psychology major with no musical training can detect the difference between 2 adjacent notes on a scale 5 times in 10 exposures has determined the psychology major's ____________________. |
| | A) | the absolute threshold |
| | B) | subliminal perception |
| | C) | the difference threshold |
| | D) | psychophysics |
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A student who overlooks 5 brown apples when asked to count the number of apples on a page is exhibiting ____________________. |
| | A) | sensory adaption |
| | B) | perceptual set |
| | C) | the difference threshold |
| | D) | Weber's law |
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On New Year's Day, members of "Polar Bear" clubs will swim in the ocean or lakes, often having to break through a layer of ice to enter the lake. The fact that they can stay in the water for several minutes is example of ________________. |
| | A) | sensory adaptation |
| | B) | perceptual set |
| | C) | the Stroop effect |
| | D) | selective attention |
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A person who is moving through a dark room in which all objects appear to be black or gray is using primarily _______________. |
| | A) | rods |
| | B) | cones |
| | C) | the fovea |
| | D) | the lens |
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A psychologist who is identifying neurons in the brain that fire when pictures of lines drawn at varying angles is studying _______________. |
| | A) | selective attention |
| | B) | perceptual set |
| | C) | feature detectors |
| | D) | binding |
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When a person looks at an object like a dog, all neurons throughout pathways that are activated by the object vibrate at the same frequency to unite the features of the object into a unified perception. This process is called _______________. |
| | A) | parallel processing |
| | B) | selective attention |
| | C) | transduction |
| | D) | binding |
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Although the numbers on many scoreboards are composed of individual light bulbs, people have no difficulty distinguishing the numbers. This perception is an example of the principle of _______________. |
| | A) | similarity |
| | B) | closure |
| | C) | proximity |
| | D) | figure-ground relationships |
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A person standing on a railroad track notes that the tracks appear to converge in the distance. This perception is an example of _______________. |
| | A) | familiar size |
| | B) | texture gradient |
| | C) | shading |
| | D) | linear perspective |
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As a person walks around a rectangular table, the image on the retina changes, e.g., appearing as a parallelogram at certain points. The fact that the person continues to perceive the table as a rectangle is an example of _______________. |
| | A) | size constancy |
| | B) | depth perception |
| | C) | shape constancy |
| | D) | parallel processing |
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The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are parts of the _______________. |
| | A) | pinna |
| | B) | middle ear |
| | C) | inner ear |
| | D) | semicircular canals |
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The description of hearing based on the notion that clusters of neurons can fire in rapid succession is the _______________. |
| | A) | place theory |
| | B) | frequency theory |
| | C) | volley principle |
| | D) | transduction principle |
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Which of the following injuries would be signaled to the brain by the slow pathway? |
| | A) | Arthritis of the knee. |
| | B) | A headache resulting from a blow to the head. |
| | C) | A burn from touching a heating element on a stove. |
| | D) | A puncture wound to the foot. |
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A human factors psychologist would be most likely to be involved in _________________________. |
| | A) | making an automobile speedometer easier to read |
| | B) | measuring loudness at a rock concert |
| | C) | devising methods to help physical therapists control pain |
| | D) | locating neurons in the brain responsible for identification of certain colors |
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