P101 Final
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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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