Question 1

1 out of 1 points

As discussed in class, Dr. King said it is nearly impossible to map the nerve cells the
human brain for what reason?
Selected Answer:
Synapses can grow or disappear in minutes

Question 2
1 out of 1 points

Devinder is a participant in a research study. She is asked to look at a series of images

of black dots scattered in a random order and then identify which images contain at
least one gray dot. She ends up greatly underestimating the number of gray dot
images, illustrating a high number of ____.
Selected Answer:

misses

Question 3
1 out of 1 points

Marcella gets up early, turns on the light in the bathroom, and watches herself in the
mirror as the blue ring of her eyes constrict. What is this blue ring called?
Selected Answer:

Question 4
1 out of 1 points

iris

Dr. Tanner is studying the effects of continuous pesticide exposure on auditory

function. Using a rodent model, Dr. Tanner monitors the organ of Corti in rats with
long-term pesticide exposure via two-photon microscopy. Based on his observations, he
suspects that pesticides do indeed disrupt auditory function. What did Dr. Tanner
observe?
Selected
Answer:

Pesticide exposure caused damage to hair cells, preventing them

from bending in response to sound.

Question 5
1 out of 1 points

Celeste moved into her college dorm room today. She turns off her light before going to
bed and notices glow-in-the-dark stickers on the ceiling, presumably left behind from
the previous occupant. What process best exemplifies her recognition of the light
generated by these stickers?
Selected Answer:

bottom-up processing

Question 6
1 out of 1 points

Sensations of body position, touch, skin temperature, and pain are referred to as ____.
Selected Answer:

somatosensation

Question 7
1 out of 1 points

One of the most powerful monocular depth cues is ____.

Selected Answer:

Question 8
1 out of 1 points

occlusion

Which scenario is likely to result in many hits and a high rate of false alarms?
Selected
Answer:

Willow is eager to find a summer internship, so she sends her resume

to every local business looking for an intern.

Question 9
1 out of 1 points

How do sensory systems differ for humans versus non-human animals?

Selected
Answer:

Developed out of natural selection, sensory systems are unique to an

individual species (human or non-human) and work to maximize the
survival of that species.

Question 10
1 out of 1 points

What plays an especially significant role in the perception of music and speech?
Selected Answer:

grouping

Question 11
1 out of 1 points

Before entering the auditory canal, sound waves are funneled into the outer ear via the
____.
Selected Answer:

Question 12
1 out of 1 points

pinna

While working to restore the roof of his house, Stan feels the rough surfaces of the
roofs shingles. What allows Stan to sense the roughness of the shingles?
Selected
Answer:

Specialized neurons in the skin generate action potentials when

distorted by the rough surface.

Question 13
1 out of 1 points

The mathematical approach to object recognition suggests that we ____.

Selected Answer:

analyze patterns of lines

Question 14
1 out of 1 points

When scientists artificially alter recordings of speech to resemble regular, repeating

sine waves, people typically interpret this as ____.
Selected Answer:

tweeting birds

Question 15
1 out of 1 points

In the middle ear, the purpose of three tiny bones known as the ossicles is to ____.
Selected Answer:

transfer sound energy to the fluid of the inner ear

Question 16
1 out of 1 points

According to the place theory of pitch perception, how do sound waves affect the
basilar membrane?

Selected
Answer:

High-frequency tones produce maximum movement at the base; lowfrequency tones produce maximum movement near the apex.

Question 17
1 out of 1 points

Where does the optic nerve cross the midline?

Selected Answer:

optic chiasm

Question 18
1 out of 1 points

In combat veterans, the experience of post-traumatic stress disorder appears to interact

with which sense?
Selected Answer:

olfaction

Question 19
1 out of 1 points

Visible light is a type of ____.

Selected Answer:

radiation

Question 20
1 out of 1 points

Melinda is three months old. She is most likely to stare at which of the following
images?
Selected Answer:

A black and white soccer ball

 Question 21
1 out of 1 points

What are the two steps of signal detection?

Selected Answer:

The intensity of stimulus and the observers criteria

Question 22
1 out of 1 points

Heather considers herself a chocoholic. When she is having a bad day, she knows that
a few bites of chocolate will always make her feel better. Which area of her brain is
responsible for this effect?
Selected Answer:

orbitofrontal cortex

Question 23
1 out of 1 points

Noel has perfect pitch, which means that she can name any musical tone that she hears.
Compared with other people, Noel is likely to have ____.
Selected Answer:

areas of her left hemisphere that are larger

Question 24
1 out of 1 points

According to the Mller-Lyer illusion, we tend to see lines with outward-pointing

arrowheads as ____.
Selected Answer:

Question 25
1 out of 1 points

being farther away from us

Tarik is designing a new race car video game. To create the illusion of depth, how
should Tarik design the backdrop in relationship to the first person driver?
Selected
Answer:

Show distant objects traveling with the first person driver; show
closer objects moving in the opposite direction of the driver.

Question 26
0 out of 1 points

What type of sound is particularly effective for many marine mammals because it
allows sound to travel for very long distances in water?
Selected Answer:

ultrasound

Question 27
1 out of 1 points

Three year old-Joshua spits out his broccoli, scrunches his face and shouts, Yuck! His
mother cant understand why he distastes broccoli so much, because she finds it to be
rather bland. Why might Joshua and his mother have such different reactions to the
taste of broccoli?
Selected Answer:

As we get older, the overall number of taste buds decreases.

Question 28
1 out of 1 points

Hugo is running an experiment to determine if a specific DNA allele is present in a new

transgenic mouse line. He glances through numerous data sets and identifies the correct
DNA band in the majority of his experiments. This illustrates the concept of a ____.
Selected Answer:

Question 29
0 out of 1 points

hit

How did the transition from walking on four legs to two legs influence the evolution of
human somatosenses?
Selected
Answer:

There was more evolutionary pressure for the development of

somatosenses.

Question 30
1 out of 1 points

Ginger examines a painting of a stone path extending into the horizon of a field. Two
sticks lie horizontally across the path: one in the beginning of the path and the other
near the horizon. Each stick measures 10 cm in length, but the stick near the horizon
appears much larger than the stick at the beginning of the path. What illusion explains
this phenomenon?
Selected Answer:

Ponzo illusion

Question 31
1 out of 1 points

Noreen gazes out at the city lights from her 23rd floor apartment; Jonah feels a stinging
pain after falling from his bike and scraping his elbow; Maher hears the loud wail of
sirens outside his dorm room window. The process that allows Noreen, Jonah, and
Maher to detect these external or internal stimuli is termed ____.
Selected Answer:

sensation

Question 32
1 out of 1 points

Which is an example of top-down processing in the perception of speech?

Selected
Answer:

Question 33

Bries father yells, Take out the ....; before he can finish his
sentence, Brie jumps up from the couch to take out the garbage.

1 out of 1 points

What is a critique of the feature detector model of object recognition?

Selected
Answer:

It does not account for the fact that our expectations influence what
we see.

Question 34
1 out of 1 points

What is the purpose of a sensory homunculus?

Selected
Answer:

It shows how areas of the body are represented in the somatosensory

cortex on the basis of sensitivity.

Question 35
1 out of 1 points

The smallest amount of stimulus that can be detected is known as the ____.
Selected Answer:

absolute threshold

Question 36
1 out of 1 points

What anatomical feature of the retina supports the opponent theory of color
recognition?
Selected
Answer:

Question 37
1 out of 1 points

Groups of cells that process yellow and blue or red and green are
located together.

Maria is the victim of an armed robbery. She is called into the police station to identify
her assailant from a line-up of men. She correctly reports that none of the men were her
attacker. This illustrates the concept of a(n) ____.
Selected Answer:

correct rejection

Question 38
1 out of 1 points

Kevin is a participant in a taste-off as part of his campuss Greek Week. He is

blindfolded and his nose is pinched off with a close pin. He is asked to taste a slice of
apple and a slice of raw potato. Kevin is likely to ____.
Selected Answer:

think that the apple and the potato are the same

Question 39
1 out of 1 points

Our primary method for localizing sound in the horizontal plane is ____.
Selected Answer:

to compare the arrival time of sound at each ear

Question 40
1 out of 1 points

What is a critique of the place theory of sound perception?

Selected Answer:

Place theory only works well for sounds above 4000 Hz.

Question 41
1 out of 1 points

The place theory of perception is analogous to tones produced by ____.

Selected Answer:

stringed instruments

Question 42
1 out of 1 points

As discussed in class, what scientist was diagnosed with prosopagnosia (has the ability
to see faces but cannot recognize individuals)?
Selected Answer:
Oliver Sacks

Question 43
1 out of 1 points

Which structure of the ear contains the auditory receptors?

Selected Answer:

cochlea

Question 44
1 out of 1 points

While attempting to overcome writers block, Devin stares at her yellow, green, and
white striped journal. When she finally returns to her blank computer screen, she sees a
blue, red, and black striped afterimage. Which theory best explains the afterimage that
Devin sees?
Selected Answer:

Question 45
1 out of 1 points

opponent process theory

As discussed in class, the problem with the statement "blind people develop a better
sense of hearing" is which of the following?
Selected
Answer:

What happens is the brain gets better at paying attention to

auditory data.

Question 46
1 out of 1 points

Small bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds are referred to as ____.
Selected Answer:

papillae

Question 47
1 out of 1 points

Professor Radcliffe prepares an exam for her Sensation and Perception class. In a rush,
she writes: Proivde the corrcet answres for the following questoins. While quickly
proofreading the exam, she misses her mistakes. What caused this oversight?
Selected Answer:

top-down processing

Question 48
1 out of 1 points

Leo works tirelessly on a new logo for his flower shop. He decides on a simple pattern:
five petal shapes (set in a circular path) and a long stem. Despite the fact that Leo does
not include a center circle and his shapes are disconnected, the logo is easily
recognizable as a flower with a large center disk. What Gestalt principle best explains
this phenomenon?
Selected Answer:

The principle of closure

 Question 49
0 out of 1 points

Adele decides to paint her room green. She studies several bright green and pastel green
color samples. What attribute of the light wave allows Adele to differentiate between
these light intensities?
Selected Answer:

The distance between peaks

Question 50
1 out of 1 points

What important fact supports the idea that vision is one of the most important sensory
systems in humans?
Selected
Answer:

Approximately 50% of our cerebral cortex processes visual

information.