Question 1

While visiting the art museum, Laura stared at a black and white photograph in a red frame for over a minute.When she looked away from the photograph she saw an afterimage of a rectangle.Consistent with the opponent process theory the image she saw was

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A)   green.
B)   red.
C)   blue.
D)   yellow.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 2

A perceptual set implies that

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A)   people often see what they expect to see.
B)   visual perception is based on a bottom-up processing strategy.
C)   feature analysis is a "hard-wired" process.
D)   the focused-attention stage of processing is often overridden by preattentive processes.E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 3

A brain injury that affects an individual's ability to process different tastes MOST likely affected the

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A)   frontal lobes.
B)   hypothalamus.
C)   temporal lobes.
D)   parietal lobes.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

According to psychologists, the minimum stimulus intensity of any sensory input that an organism can detect is

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A)   its sensory memory.
B)   subject to sensory adaptation.
C)   the absolute threshold.
D)   the just noticeable difference (JN
D)  .E) B) and C)
F) A) and D) C

Question 5

Three people look at the same sketch and report seeing three different things.This illustrates the contribution to perception of

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A)   stimulus ambiguity.
B)   cognitive interpretation.
C)   sensory readiness.
D)   cognitive dissonance.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

The successive blinking on and off of the lights on the neon sign gave the impression of beer filling a glass.This illusion of motion is the

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A)   phi phenomenon.
B)   constancy principle.
C)   common-fate principle.
D)   motion parallax effect.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 7

Food generally tastes bland when you have a severe head cold because

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A)   your cold will cause the sweet receptors in your mouth to become inactivated.
B)   your high temperature will cause your brain to block signals from the taste buds in the mouth.
C)   because your naturally produced antibodies interfere with chemical molecules stimulated by your taste buds.
D)   flavour is influenced by smell as well as taste, and with a reduced sense of smell your sense of taste will be diminished.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B) D

Question 8

As people age, the lens of the eye loses its ability to accommodate, and it tends to remain flat instead of becoming fat and round.This suggests that as people age they will

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A)   lose their ability to focus on objects in the distance.
B)   be less likely to detect differences in light purity.
C)   be more likely to detect differences in brightness and hue.
D)   lose their ability to focus on objects that are close.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

The lens in the eye

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A)   converts light energy into neural energy.
B)   controls the amount of light entering the eye.
C)   bends entering light rays and focuses them onto the retina.
D)   is the part of the eye that gives it its colour.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

If your roommate slowly and carefully turns up the volume on the stereo until you can determine "now it's louder than it was before," it would be MOST accurate to say the volume increased by a

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A)   perceivable difference.
B)   just noticeable difference.
C)   fractional difference.
D)   proportional difference.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

The optic disc is

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A)   where the optic nerve exits the retina.
B)   the brain structure responsible for the merging of visual fields from both eyes.
C)   where light enters the eye.
D)   another term for the lens.E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 12

Inattentional blindness occurs when individuals overlook highly salient features, or events that are unexpected, because their attention is focused on other features of a visual stimulus.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

While ____ involves the stimulation of sense organs, ____ involves the selection, organisation, and interpretation of sensory input.

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A)   perception; sensation
B)   sensation; perception
C)   activation; sensation
D)   activation; perceptionE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 14

Which of the unifying themes in psychology is MOST consistent with the existence of ambiguous figures and visual illusions?

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A)   behaviour is determined by multiple causes
B)   behaviour is shaped by cultural heritage
C)   people's experience of the world is highly subjective
D)   psychology is theoretically diverseE) B) and C)
F) A) and D) C

Question 15

It is generally agreed that there are four primary odours: sweet, bitter, sour and salty that are detected by olfactory receptors uniquely responsive to their specific chemical structure.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

In dim light, the pupil of the eye is

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A)   dilated, producing a sharper image.
B)   constricted, producing a sharper image.
C)   constricted, producing an image that is not as sharp.
D)   dilated, producing an image that is not as sharp.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 17

Skin patches are to touch as ____ are to vision.

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A)   cones
B)   rods
C)   receptive fields
D)   feature detectorsE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 18

The depth perception cue based on the observation that parallel lines converge in the distance is

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A)   height in plane.
B)   retinal disparity.
C)   linear perspective.
D)   interposition.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 19

Researchers investigating feature detectors have found individual neurons that are activated by images of specific individuals.These neurons may be adaptive primarily because they allow us to

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A)   distinguide friends from foes.
B)   distinguish people from animals.
C)   distinguish animals from plants.
D)   distinguish animals from food.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 20

You can detect the difference between a musical note played on a trumpet and the same note played on a trombone because the two instruments have a different

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A)   timbre.
B)   key.
C)   pitch.
D)   loudness.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Exam 4: Sensory Systems and Perception

While visiting the art museum, Laura stared at a black and white photograph in a red frame for over a minute.When she looked away from the photograph she saw an afterimage of a rectangle.Consistent with the opponent process theory the image she saw was

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A perceptual set implies that

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A brain injury that affects an individual's ability to process different tastes MOST likely affected the

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According to psychologists, the minimum stimulus intensity of any sensory input that an organism can detect is

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Three people look at the same sketch and report seeing three different things.This illustrates the contribution to perception of

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The successive blinking on and off of the lights on the neon sign gave the impression of beer filling a glass.This illusion of motion is the

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Food generally tastes bland when you have a severe head cold because

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As people age, the lens of the eye loses its ability to accommodate, and it tends to remain flat instead of becoming fat and round.This suggests that as people age they will

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The lens in the eye

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If your roommate slowly and carefully turns up the volume on the stereo until you can determine "now it's louder than it was before," it would be MOST accurate to say the volume increased by a

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The optic disc is

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Inattentional blindness occurs when individuals overlook highly salient features, or events that are unexpected, because their attention is focused on other features of a visual stimulus.

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While ____ involves the stimulation of sense organs, ____ involves the selection, organisation, and interpretation of sensory input.

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Which of the unifying themes in psychology is MOST consistent with the existence of ambiguous figures and visual illusions?

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It is generally agreed that there are four primary odours: sweet, bitter, sour and salty that are detected by olfactory receptors uniquely responsive to their specific chemical structure.

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In dim light, the pupil of the eye is

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Skin patches are to touch as ____ are to vision.

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The depth perception cue based on the observation that parallel lines converge in the distance is

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Researchers investigating feature detectors have found individual neurons that are activated by images of specific individuals.These neurons may be adaptive primarily because they allow us to

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