CHAPTER 4Test Prep questions #2

1. WHETHER A SOUND HAS A HIGH OR LOW________DEPENDS ON THE FREQUENCY OF THE SOUND WAVES. a) Tone

b) Amplitude

c) Pitch

d) Gigahertz

e) timbre

2. LOUDNESS IS DETERMINED BY A SOUND WAVE’S

a) Pitch

b) Quality

c) Amplitude

d) Frequency

e) speed

3. WHEN SOUND WAVES CANNOT BE CONVERTED TO NERVE ENERGY, ONE HAS

a) Conduction deafness

b) Color blindness

c) Nerve deafness

d) Damaged anvil, and or stirrup

4. THE ______SENSE ALLOWS US TO ORIENT OUR BODY WITH RESPECT TO GRAVITY.

a) Gustatory

b) Vestibular

c) Olfatory

d) Kinesthetic

e) analgesic

5. FRED IS A BASKETBALL PLAYER, HIS _______ WILL PROVIDE HIM WITH THE INFORMATION REGARDING HIS BODY POSITION AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

a) Temporal lobe

b) Pheromones

c) Kinesthetic sense

d) Basilar membrane

e) Motor strip

6. THE SENSE OF SMELL IS ADAPTIVE IN THATa) It aids in the location of food

b) It allows us to detect decaying flesh

c) It signals sexual receptivity in some mammals

d) Smell can mark the boundaries of a territory

e) All of the above are correct.

7. SUPERTASTERS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OVER NONTASTERS BECAUSE a) They have a more taste buds for sweet flavors.

b) They have fewer taste buds for bitter flavors

c) They can easily detect foods that might be potentially harmful.

d) They can more easily detect foods that are bitter

e) They can have extreme distaste for salty foods.

8. THE CAPACITY OF A PLACEBO TREATMENT TO REDUCE PAIN PERCEPTION IS BELIEVED TO BE DUE TO a) Release of endorphins

b) Inactivation of cells in the occipital cortex

c) The release of naloxone in the spinal cord

d) Damage by needles to skin receptors

e) B and D are correct

9. ________REFERS TO THE FACT THAT WE DO NOT KNOW HOW THE BRAIN COMBINES FEATURES INTO A SINGLE PERCEPT. a) Gestalt perception

b) Combinatory confusion

c) Sensorimotor flux

d) The uncertainty principle

e) The binding problem

10. YOUR DOG HAS BEEN LOST FOR 3 DAYS AND YOU CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM. WHEN YOU HEAR A BARK, YOU ASSUME THAT IT IS FUZZY BECAUSE OF

a) Location constancy

b) Closure

c) The law of common fate

d) Bottom up processing

e) Top down processing

11. AS A BIRD FLIES TOWARDS YOU, YOU DON’T PERCEIVE IT AS GROWING LARGER. THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO

a) Perceptual constancy

b) Conservation

c) Recognition

d) Perceptual ambiguity

e) The law of Pragnanz

12. A NECKER CUBE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A(N)

a) Ambiguous figure

b) Gestalt creation

c) Mental set

d) Pheromone

e) phosphene

13. WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH THE CAFETERIA AT LUNCH, YOU SEE MANY PEOPLE SEATED AT TABLES. YOU PERCEIVE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SITTING NEAR EACH OTHER AS BEING FRIENDS WITH ONE ANOTHER. YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING

a) Law of proximity

b) Law of common fate

c) Law of similarity

d) Law of Pragnanz

e) Law of continuity

14. IT MAY TAKE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER A FEW SECONDS TO RECOGNIZE YOU WHEN YOU SEE HER IN THE GROCERY STORE. THIS EXPERIENCE ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE.

a) Perceptual sets

b) Context

c) Closure

d) Contiguity

e) Common fate

THE VISUAL CLIFF CREATED BY GIBSON AND WALK WAS DESIGNED TO TEST INFANTS ON

a) motor abilities

b) Gestalt principles

c) Depth perception

d) Sensory adaptation

e) Sensory overload

1. C

2. C

3. A

4. B

5. C

6. E

7. C

8. A

9. E

10. E

11. A

12. A

13. A

14. B

15. c