Question 1

Colin, who has been arguing with his co-workers all day, thinks the movie he saw this evening was a lot more violent than his wife thought it was. Colin's evaluation of the movie was probably influenced by his __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  linear perspective 
B)  convergence 
C)  perceptual set 
D)  texture gradient

Question 2

Neurons that fire when images move, but not when the eye moves, are called _________.

Accepted Answer

A)  complex cells 
B)  simple cells 
C)  real movement neurons 
D)  none of these

Question 3

We are said to be experiencing _________________ when physical energy from our environment comes into contact with our sense organs.

Accepted Answer

A)  perception 
B)  sensation 
C)  transduction 
D)  migration

Question 4

The "mosquito ring tone" is reported to be __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  such a high frequency that most thirty- to forty-year-olds cannot hear it 
B)  such a low frequency that most thirty- to forty-year-olds cannot hear it 
C)  such a high frequency that most ten- to twenty-year-olds cannot hear it 
D)  such a low frequency that most ten- to twenty-year-olds cannot hear it

Question 5

A car is partially obstructing Cara's view of the garage and therefore Cara knows the car is in front of the garage. This cue to depth is known as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  texture gradient 
B)  interposition 
C)  linear perspective 
D)  convergence

Question 6

The ______________ adjusts the pupil to control the amount of light entering the eye.

Accepted Answer

A)  lens 
B)  iris 
C)  anvil 
D)  retina

Question 7

Which of the following is likely dependent upon experience to be perceived visually correctly?

Accepted Answer

A)  depth 
B)  gender 
C)  faces 
D)  all of these

Question 8

Hubbard and Ramachandran (2005) showed that synesthesia involving the cross-over processing of colors and numbers may be neurologically based in the_____________ lobes.

Accepted Answer

A)  frontal 
B)  parietal 
C)  temporal 
D)  occipital

Question 9

Christophe is looking at a lighted sign on which a rapid succession of lit bulbs appears to be an arrow in motion pointing to a store. This visual effect is called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  apparent motion 
B)  depth perception 
C)  the devil's fork 
D)  the moon illusion

Question 10

Information from taste cells is projected to the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  occipital lobes 
B)  brain stem 
C)  hypothalamus 
D)  frontal and parietal lobes

Question 11

The right auditory cortex is more active than the left auditory cortex in processing __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  speech 
B)  non-verbal stimuli 
C)  language 
D)  none of these

Question 12

Which of the following is true with respect to information presented in the left visual field? It is processed __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  in the left hemisphere 
B)  in the right hemisphere 
C)  first in the corpus callosum and then in the frontal cortex 
D)  first in the pons and then in the medial forebrain bundle

Question 13

Lutman and Spencer (1991) and others have shown that factory workers with long-term exposure to sounds of __________ dB will likely sustain hearing loss over time.

Accepted Answer

A)  30 
B)  50 
C)  70 
D)  90

Question 14

Which of the following types of psychologists would posit that one reason women have a keener sense of smell than do men is to allow pregnant women to avoid ingesting harmful substances, thereby increasing the chance of leaving descendants?

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive 
B)  evolutionary 
C)  social 
D)  Behavioral

Question 15

Research has shown that experienced violinists have larger ________________ of brain regions related to hand and finger movements.

Accepted Answer

A)  schemas 
B)  perceptual sets 
C)  hemispheres 
D)  brain maps

Question 16

Acupuncture should successfully alleviate pain according to which of the following theories?

Accepted Answer

A)  gate control 
B)  trichromatic 
C)  opponent-process 
D)  psychodynamic

Question 17

Matilda did not hear the phone ringing when her girlfriend called. Signal detection theorists would call this a __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  correct rejection 
B)  miss 
C)  hit 
D)  false alarm

Question 18

Lincoln is pretty sure he sees his sister far off in the crowd. When he gets closer, he sees her familiar hair style and unmistakable nose, and knows it is she. This type of visual perception is called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory adaptation 
B)  law of consistency 
C)  bottom-up processing 
D)  top-down processing

Question 19

Making Connections in Sensation and Perception The Mü ller-Lyer illusion, which involves a visual illusion based on the perception of the angles and edges of a building, is not usually experienced by people who grow up and live in regions where round huts are predominant. This suggests that which of the following may be influencing the Mü ller-Lyer illusion?

Accepted Answer

A)  Top-down processing 
B)  The occipital lobes 
C)  The law of continuity 
D)  Nearsightedness

Question 20

Research has shown that people from Western cultures tend to focus on _______________ in their visual perceptions of the world.

Accepted Answer

A)  the whole picture 
B)  the context of the situation 
C)  background objects 
D)  foreground objects

Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World