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An 80 decibel sound will sound _____times louder than a 50 decibel sound

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8

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After a small section of his basilar membrane was damaged, Jason experienced a noticeable loss of hearing for high pitched sounds only. Jason's hearing loss is best explained by the ________theory.

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place

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The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with the right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose ___________has been cut.

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corpus callosum

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An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the surface of the brain is called a(n)

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EEG

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Cones and rods are to vision as ________ are to audtion

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hair cells

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A cochlear implant converts sounds into

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electrical signals

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Although college textbooks frequently cast a trapezoidal image on the retina, students typically perceive the books as rectangular objects. This illustrates the importance of

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shape constancy

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Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a

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lesion

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A difference in time of arrival a the two ears is important for accurately

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locating sounds

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retinal disparity refers to the

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somewhat different images our two eyes receive of the same object

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the fovea refers to

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the central focal point in the retina

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After hearing rumors about the outbreak of an infectious disease, Alyosha began to perceive his normal aches and pains as disease-related symptoms. His reaction best illustrates the impact of

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perceptual set

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To identify which of Lucy's brain areas was most active when she talked, neuroscientists gave her a temporarily radioactive form of glucose and a(n)

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pet scan

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brightness is to intensity as hue is to

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wavelength

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a large cortical representation for a particular area of the body would likely result in a ________ two point threshold

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small

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While listening to sad rather than happy music, people are more likely to perceive a spoken word as mourning rather than morning. This best illustrates that perception is influenced by

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top-down processing

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Which lobes of the brain receive the input that enables you to feel someone scratching your back

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parietal

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the minimum difference btwn two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time is called

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the just noticeable difference (JND)

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The occipital lobes are to _______ as the temporal lobes are to __________

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seeing; hearing

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Those of you who saw the picture of the girl first reported, when seeing the ambiguous picture, that it looked like a girl. Those of you who saw the man's head first, reported seeing a man's head when looking at the ambiguous picture. this result is an example of:

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the effect of top down processing

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Which of the following is a cue used by artists to convey depth on a flat canvas?

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interposition

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Which one of the following is not directly due to the fact that our eyes consist of both rods and cones/

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retinal disparity

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The perception of the letter \"t\" as two intersection lines rather than as four non-intersecting lines illustrates the principle of

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continuity

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The process of forming new neurons within the brain is called

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neurogenesis

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Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes are called

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top-down processing

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The pupil is the

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adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters

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People's response to subliminal priming indicates that

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they are capable of processing information without any conscious awareness of doing so

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In response to a harmful stimulus,_____initiate neural impulses leading to the sensation of pain.

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nociceptors

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Sensory restriction is much more likely to hinder visual development in early infancy than during other times of life. this suggests that there is a(n)___________for normal visual development

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critical period

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the semicircular canals are most directly relevant to

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the vestibular sense

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For some people, hearing certain sounds may activate color-sensitive regions of the cortex so as to trigger a sensation of color. This phenomenon is called

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synaesthesia

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Evidence that some cones are especially sensitive to red light, others to green, and still others to blue is most directly supportive of

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the young-helmholtz trichromatic theory

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In the distorted room, the fact that objects such as stuffed bears and people seem to grow and shrink when changing positions is not the result of

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the use of binocular cues

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Jeremy, the person who could not form new long-term memories, had damage to which one of the following structures

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hippocampus

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Place theory suggests that

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the pitch we hear is related to the place where the cochlea's basilar membrane is stimulated

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The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system are the

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somatic and automatic nervous system

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If two objects cast retinal images of the same size, the object that appears to be closer is perceived as __________ the object that appears to be more distant

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smaller than

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Eardrum vibrations are transmitted to the cochlea by a piston consisting of

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the hammer, anvil, and stirrup

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The visual cortex is activated when blind people read Braille. This best illustrates

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plasticity

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Infants who were exposed to the visual cliff

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refused to cross over onto the glass over the cliff to their mothers

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