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Psychology Unit 3

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What is true about rods and cones?   show
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show sensory adaptation  
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show an absolute threshold  
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show sensory adaptation  
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The ability to choose specific stimuli to learn about, while filtering out or ignoring other information is called   show
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The human vestibular sense is most closely associated with the   show
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show Cats have a higher proportion of rods to cones  
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show absolute threshold  
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When Jason practices the drums, he tends not to hear the phone. Today he is expecting a call from a record producer and answers the phone each time it rings even when he is practicing the drums. What explains why Jason hears the phone today?   show
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show Auditory canal, eardrum, ossicles, oval window, cochlea  
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The occipital lobes contain   show
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show red-green system  
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show difference threshold  
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A person with sight in only one eye lacks which of the following visual cues for seeing in depth? Retinal disparity linear perspective Motion parallax Relative size Texture gradient   show
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show absolute threshold  
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show Accommodation  
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show Green  
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The place in the retina where the optic nerve exits to the brain is called the   show
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show cochlea  
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show Spicy  
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show perceptual organization  
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The general function of the bones in the middle ear is to   show
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show bipolar cells  
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show the nervous system blocks or allows pain signals to pass to the brain  
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Which of the following is NOT a Gestalt principle of perceptual organization? Proximity Similarity Closure Intensity Continuity   show
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Which perceptual process explains why you can see varied aspects of your favorite singer's face and instantly recognize him or her?   show
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show Feature Detectors  
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Which of the following structures helps you most in detecting the color of your friend's shirt? Fovea Lens Cones Rods Cornea   show
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show short wavelength, large amplitude  
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show Cornea  
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show perceptual adaptation  
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show phi phenomenon  
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show figure-ground relationship  
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show retinal disparity  
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Which of the statements is best explained by research on depth perception visual cliff human infants must learn to perceive depth monocular depth cues develop before binocular depth cues human infants are born with an innate sense of depth   show
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show color constancy  
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show afterimage  
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________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives, and is a distance cue that allows us to perceive the depth of a given visual stimulus.   show
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show optic  
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Wesley is in a movie theater with no windows—the only light is low illumination from the emergency lights on the floor. Which photoreceptors will be most useful to Wesley as he attempts to leave the theater?   show
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show Gestalt  
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show proximity  
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show similarity  
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show long wavelength, large amplitude  
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show sensorineural  
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Which of the following reflects the notion that pitch is related to the stimulation of different areas of the cochlea's basilar membrane? place theory frequency theory volley principle   show
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show eardrum  
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show transduction  
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show higher; louder  
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As you are talking to a friend on your cell phone, you might find that you can’t hear them because they are speaking very softly. If you ask them to “speak up,” from a physical perspective you are asking them to _____ of the sound waves they are producing   show
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Ravon is deaf. He was born without the ability to hear. When people write using “sound” type words like “loud,” “soft,” he sometimes has difficulty understanding what they are trying to say Ravon has ___ deafness.   show
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show temporal  
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show Receptors on different portions of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies.  
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How does a cochlear implant enable the deaf to hear?   show
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show sensory receptors transmit information  
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show how we interpret information from sensory receptors  
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Bottom-Up processing   show
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show brain deciphers information and uses experiences and expectations to construct perception  
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Selective Attention   show
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"Cocktail Party Effect"   show
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show only able to listen to one side  
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Inattentional Blindness   show
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show failing to notice changes in the environment  
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show had participants pick the most attractive picture and the researchers switched the picture  
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show study of the relationship between physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity and our psychological experience of them  
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Absolute Thresholds   show
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show minimum difference between two stimuli Just noticeable difference  
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show principle that, if something can be perceived as different, the two stimuli must be different by constant percentage  
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show theory predicts when we detect presence of faint stimulus amid background stimulation  
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Subliminal stimulation   show
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show After almost constant contact with an unchanging stimulus our nerve cells stop firing  
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Telepathy   show
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show perceive remote events  
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show knowing future events  
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Psychokinesis/Telekinesis   show
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show Mental tendencies and assumptions that affect, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.  
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show Eyes receive light information and transduce or transform it into messages sent by neurons to our brain and we get an image  
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show focus  
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Pupil   show
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show dilates or contracts to control the light level  
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Lens   show
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retina   show
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photoreceptors   show
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show sensitive to faint light  
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cones   show
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Bipolar cells   show
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show transmit signals from bipolar cells to optic nerve  
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Fovea   show
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