Question 1

At what age does perceptual capacity generally reach a peak?

Accepted Answer

A)  Twenty years 
B)  Ten years 
C)  Two years 
D)  Forty years 
A)  Twenty years 
B)  Ten years 
C)  Two years 
D)  Forty years A

Question 2

Which one of the following is not a consequence of decreasing efficiency in the eye as a result of aging?

Accepted Answer

A)  Reduced mobility of the pupil 
B)  Reduced flexibility in the lens 
C)  Degeneration of the central retina 
D)  Decreased light absorption by the lens 
A)  Reduced mobility of the pupil 
B)  Reduced flexibility in the lens 
C)  Degeneration of the central retina 
D)  Decreased light absorption by the lens D

Question 3

Which one of the following is the correct name for the insulating fatty sheath that surrounds axons?

Accepted Answer

A)  Dendrites 
B)  Myelin 
C)  Grey matter 
D)  Synapses 
A)  Dendrites 
B)  Myelin 
C)  Grey matter 
D)  Synapses B

Question 4

The volume of which area of the brain, in taxi drivers, is correlated with time served as a taxi driver?

Accepted Answer

A)  Somatosensory cortex 
B)  Visual cortex 
C)  Hippocampus 
D)  Lateral geniculate nucleus 
A)  Somatosensory cortex 
B)  Visual cortex 
C)  Hippocampus 
D)  Lateral geniculate nucleus

Question 5

What is presbyopia?

Accepted Answer

A)  Age-related hearing loss 
B)  A condition in which a patient is unable to recognise faces 
C)  Short-sightedness 
D)  Reduced flexibility of the lens in the eye, associated with aging 
A)  Age-related hearing loss 
B)  A condition in which a patient is unable to recognise faces 
C)  Short-sightedness 
D)  Reduced flexibility of the lens in the eye, associated with aging

Question 6

In general, males outperform females at which one of the following tasks?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hearing discrimination 
B)  Mental rotation 
C)  Odour identification 
D)  Verbal fluency 
A)  Hearing discrimination 
B)  Mental rotation 
C)  Odour identification 
D)  Verbal fluency

Question 7

What is Presbycusis partly due?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hair cell loss 
B)  Lens hardness 
C)  Skin stiffness 
D)  Otosclerosis 
A)  Hair cell loss 
B)  Lens hardness 
C)  Skin stiffness 
D)  Otosclerosis

Question 8

Which one of the following is not consistent with obtained practice effects in perception?

Accepted Answer

A)  Improvements do not transfer from one eye to the other 
B)  Practice effects can occur even in simple, sensory tasks 
C)  Improvements on visual tasks are specific to the practiced retinal location 
D)  Practice effects transfer across sensory modalities 
A)  Improvements do not transfer from one eye to the other 
B)  Practice effects can occur even in simple, sensory tasks 
C)  Improvements on visual tasks are specific to the practiced retinal location 
D)  Practice effects transfer across sensory modalities

Question 9

Which one of the following techniques has not been used to investigate the carpentered world hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ames Window 
B)  Muller-Lyer illusion 
C)  Mental rotation 
D)  Oblique effect 
A)  Ames Window 
B)  Muller-Lyer illusion 
C)  Mental rotation 
D)  Oblique effect

Question 10

If male performance in a task is 0.25 standard deviations above the mean female score:

Accepted Answer

A)  Female performance is slightly better than male performance. 
B)  Male performance is slightly better than female performance. 
C)  Female performance is very much better than male performance 
D)  Male performance is very much better than female performance. 
A)  Female performance is slightly better than male performance. 
B)  Male performance is slightly better than female performance. 
C)  Female performance is very much better than male performance 
D)  Male performance is very much better than female performance.

Question 11

Which are of the brain have neural correlates of practise effects been observed in?

Accepted Answer

A)  Higher association cortex 
B)  Frontal cortex 
C)  V1 
D)  V2 
A)  Higher association cortex 
B)  Frontal cortex 
C)  V1 
D)  V2

Question 12

Which one of the following statements about formally trained musicians is not correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  Musicians are trained to have perfect pitch 
B)  Musicians can discriminate timbre better than non-musicians. 
C)  String musicians have a larger cortical representation of the fingers than non-musicians. 
D)  Musicians show more perceptual segregation than non-musicians 
A)  Musicians are trained to have perfect pitch 
B)  Musicians can discriminate timbre better than non-musicians. 
C)  String musicians have a larger cortical representation of the fingers than non-musicians. 
D)  Musicians show more perceptual segregation than non-musicians

Question 13

Which factor does not play a role in developmental improvements in vision?

Accepted Answer

A)  Packing density of cones 
B)  Accommodation defects 
C)  Cone outer segment length 
D)  Small eye size 
A)  Packing density of cones 
B)  Accommodation defects 
C)  Cone outer segment length 
D)  Small eye size

Question 14

When cats are reared in an environment containing only vertical stripes, their cortex contains:

Accepted Answer

A)  Orientation-selective cells preferring only vertical orientations 
B)  Orientation-selective cells preferring only horizontal orientations 
C)  Orientation-selective cells at all orientations 
D)  No orientation-selective cells 
A)  Orientation-selective cells preferring only vertical orientations 
B)  Orientation-selective cells preferring only horizontal orientations 
C)  Orientation-selective cells at all orientations 
D)  No orientation-selective cells

Question 15

Between the ages of 20 and 80 years, brain weight decreases by approximately?

Accepted Answer

A)  0.4 
B)  0.2 
C)  0.05 
D)  0.09 
A)  0.4 
B)  0.2 
C)  0.05 
D)  0.09

Question 16

According to available evidence, which one of the following factors is least likely to contribute to individual differences in basic perceptual capability?

Accepted Answer

A)  Age 
B)  Schooling 
C)  Sex 
D)  Gender 
A)  Age 
B)  Schooling 
C)  Sex 
D)  Gender

Question 17

At what age does visual acuity reach adult levels?

Accepted Answer

A)  12 months 
B)  2 years 
C)  4 years 
D)  8 years 
A)  12 months 
B)  2 years 
C)  4 years 
D)  8 years

Question 18

Pictorial competence test was used to study effects of:

Accepted Answer

A)  Artistic training 
B)  Age 
C)  Culture 
D)  Expertise 
A)  Artistic training 
B)  Age 
C)  Culture 
D)  Expertise

Question 19

Which of the following properties of the brain does not change significantly over the lifespan?

Accepted Answer

A)  White matter 
B)  Number of cells 
C)  Axon diameter 
D)  Myelination 
A)  White matter 
B)  Number of cells 
C)  Axon diameter 
D)  Myelination

Question 20

The improvement in hearing sensitivity over the first year of life amounts to about:

Accepted Answer

A)  30dB 
B)  10dB 
C)  6dB 
D)  3dB 
A)  30dB 
B)  10dB 
C)  6dB 
D)  3dB

At what age does perceptual capacity generally reach a peak?

Which one of the following is not a consequence of decreasing efficiency in the eye as a result of aging?

Which one of the following is the correct name for the insulating fatty sheath that surrounds axons?

The volume of which area of the brain, in taxi drivers, is correlated with time served as a taxi driver?

What is presbyopia?

In general, males outperform females at which one of the following tasks?

What is Presbycusis partly due?

Which one of the following is not consistent with obtained practice effects in perception?

Which one of the following techniques has not been used to investigate the carpentered world hypothesis?

If male performance in a task is 0.25 standard deviations above the mean female score:

Which are of the brain have neural correlates of practise effects been observed in?

Which one of the following statements about formally trained musicians is not correct?

Which factor does not play a role in developmental improvements in vision?

When cats are reared in an environment containing only vertical stripes, their cortex contains:

Between the ages of 20 and 80 years, brain weight decreases by approximately?

According to available evidence, which one of the following factors is least likely to contribute to individual differences in basic perceptual capability?

At what age does visual acuity reach adult levels?

Pictorial competence test was used to study effects of:

Which of the following properties of the brain does not change significantly over the lifespan?

The improvement in hearing sensitivity over the first year of life amounts to about:

General Principles

The Chemical Senses

The Body Senses

The Physics and Biology of Audition

Perception of Sound

The Physics of Vision & Light and the Eye

Visual Physiology

Colour Vision

Spatial Vision

Shape and Object Perception

Depth Perception

Visual Motion Perception

Multisensory Processing in Perception

Attention and Perception

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Exam 15: Individual Differences in Perception

At what age does perceptual capacity generally reach a peak?

Which one of the following is not a consequence of decreasing efficiency in the eye as a result of aging?

Which one of the following is the correct name for the insulating fatty sheath that surrounds axons?

The volume of which area of the brain, in taxi drivers, is correlated with time served as a taxi driver?

What is presbyopia?

In general, males outperform females at which one of the following tasks?

What is Presbycusis partly due?

Which one of the following is not consistent with obtained practice effects in perception?

Which one of the following techniques has not been used to investigate the carpentered world hypothesis?

If male performance in a task is 0.25 standard deviations above the mean female score:

Which are of the brain have neural correlates of practise effects been observed in?

Which one of the following statements about formally trained musicians is not correct?

Which factor does not play a role in developmental improvements in vision?

When cats are reared in an environment containing only vertical stripes, their cortex contains:

Between the ages of 20 and 80 years, brain weight decreases by approximately?

According to available evidence, which one of the following factors is least likely to contribute to individual differences in basic perceptual capability?

At what age does visual acuity reach adult levels?

Pictorial competence test was used to study effects of:

Which of the following properties of the brain does not change significantly over the lifespan?

The improvement in hearing sensitivity over the first year of life amounts to about:

General Principles

The Chemical Senses

The Body Senses

The Physics and Biology of Audition

Perception of Sound

The Physics of Vision & Light and the Eye

Visual Physiology

Colour Vision

Spatial Vision

Shape and Object Perception

Depth Perception

Visual Motion Perception

Multisensory Processing in Perception

Attention and Perception

Filters