Pregunta 1
Pregunta
Which sense is important for perception of the positions of the various parts of the body?
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homeostatic
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vestibular
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kinesthetic
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kinetic
Pregunta 2
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What does your kinesthetic system allow you to perceive?
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your sense of forward acceleration
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your body movement, when something else is moving you
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the relative position of your body parts
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the location of your body in space
Pregunta 3
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Where would you find receptors for the kinesthetic sense?
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semicircular canals
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basilar membrane
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cochlea
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joints and muscles
Pregunta 4
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A police officer asks Stanley to close his eyes and touch the tip of his nose, using first his right index finger and then his left index finger. What does Stanley rely on to complete this test of coordination?
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sensory accommodation
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reticular sense
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vestibular sense
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kinesthetic sense
Pregunta 5
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Where are the receptors for the vestibular sense?
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muscles
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inner ear
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joints
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skin
Pregunta 6
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Which of the following parts of the ear has a role in maintaining balance?
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semicircular canals
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basilar membrane
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ossicles
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cochlea
Pregunta 7
Pregunta
Loreen has a bad case of vertigo. She feels like the room is spinning, and she has trouble keeping her balance. Which of the following is most likely to be the location of excess neural activity in Loreen’s case?
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olfactory bulb
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parvocellular system
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periacqueductal gray
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semicircular canals
Pregunta 8
Pregunta
You have a severe ear infection. Which of the following is a potential side effect?
Pregunta 9
Pregunta
Our construction of perceptual hypotheses illustrates which of your text’s unifying themes?
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Psychology is empirical.
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Behaviour is determined by multiple causes.
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Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
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People’s experience of the world is highly subjective.
Pregunta 10
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Which of your text’s unifying themes is illustrated by the fact that many people are reluctant to try novel foods from other cultures?
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People’s experience of the world is highly subjective.
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Psychology is empirical.
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Behaviour is shaped by our cultural heritage.
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Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
Pregunta 11
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What depth cues must a painter employ in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional reality?
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pictorial
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convergence
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binocular
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pointillism
Pregunta 12
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Which type of artists were more concerned with interpreting a viewer’s fleeting perception of reality than with recreating the photographic “reality” of a scene?
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French Impressionists
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realists
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medievalists
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cubists
Pregunta 13
Pregunta
Which mechanism does the impressionist technique of pointillism rely on?
Pregunta 14
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Which school of painting reduces reality to combinations of geometric forms laid out in a flat space?
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cubism
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surrealism
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Impressionism
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pointillism
Pregunta 15
Pregunta
Which organizational principles are evident in the paintings of Cubists?
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Gestalt
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accommodation
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functionalist
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neurological
Pregunta 16
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Which theorist’s influence is reflected in the surrealists’ exploration of the world of dreams and fantasy?
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Ernst Weber
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David Hubel
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Sigmund Freud
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Gustav Fechner
Pregunta 17
Pregunta
What are M. C. Escher’s paintings, which often include impossible staircases and other structures, viewed as
examples of?
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perceptual ambiguity
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pointillism
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cubism
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Gestalt continuity
Pregunta 18
Pregunta
Victor Vasarely’s approach is known as Kinetic Art. How does he use optical illusions in his work?
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He makes it seem as if there are three-dimensional images popping out of a background of arbitrary
features.
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He hides images of nudes within advertising images.
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He makes it appear as if geometric shapes are moving or changing shape.
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He creates a complex image from tiny points of paint or charcoal.
Pregunta 19
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Belgian artist René Magritte used images of paintings on easels (within his paintings) that appeared to continue
beyond the borders of the canvas. What point was he trying to make?
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By making his images look ridiculous, he challenged the viewer to react against surrealist trends in art.
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He used visual illusions to make political statements about the futility of democracy.
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There is no line between the “real world” and the illusory world, or that everything is an illusion.
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He created impossible figures, like Escher did, in order to demonstrate that it was impossible to separate
art from the artist.
Pregunta 20
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What does the door-in-the-face technique involve?
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Making a long series of very small requests, until the target stops agreeing.
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Concealing some of the costs associated with a request until after the request has been accepted.
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Making a very large request that is likely to be turned down to increase the chances that people will agree
to a smaller request later.
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Adding incentives to a request that has been turned down until people finally agree to go along with the
initial request.
Pregunta 21
Pregunta
Last year Fiona had a yard sale. She marked the prices of items very reasonably, and she refused to reduce
them when people tried to negotiate. This year she had another yard sale, but this time she marked the prices of
items quite high, and then reduced them by 50 percent or more when people asked to negotiate. Fiona was
surprised to find that she made much more money this year. Which of the following may have led people to
purchase a lot from Fiona’s sale this year?
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contrast effects
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absolute thresholds
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sensory adaptation
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subliminal comparitors
Pregunta 22
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Roberta and Phil have been arrested for vandalism at their school. Given what we know about contrast effects,
what should their defence attorney emphasize in order to get a lighter sentence for Roberta and Phil?
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The other students involved in the incident did much more damage than her clients did.
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Her clients are both active in a number of extracurricular activities at their school.
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This is the first offence.
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Both clients are good students who always score at the top of their class.
Pregunta 23
Pregunta
Darcy (for next 5 questions)
Darcy is studying at the kitchen table. Her brothers are watching the hockey game in the living room. When
Darcy first sat down to study, the noise of the game was distracting, but now she doesn’t really notice it at all. As
she reads through her notes, Darcy also doesn’t seem to notice all the little spelling errors she made when she
was writing them down in class. Instead, she reads the words and sentences clearly and is able to focus on the
concepts and examples rather than her mistakes. After a while, Darcy reaches out and grabs her water glass and
takes a drink. Just then, her brothers started yelling when their team scores. Startled, Darcy dropped the glass
onto her baby toe, which sends pain shooting up her leg. Although Darcy is momentarily distracted, she goes
back to her books and is focused on her studies again within about 20 minutes.
Which process allows Darcy to not be distracted by the hockey game?
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Gestalt continuation
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neural fatigue
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sensory adaptation
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selective attention
Pregunta 24
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Which perceptual process allows Darcy to read her notes without noticing small errors?
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linguistic adaptation
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bottom-up processing
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top-down processing
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sensory adaptation
Pregunta 25
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Which of the following brain areas is critical when Darcy reaches out for her water glass?
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dorsal stream
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primary visual cortex
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periaqueductal gray
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temporal lobe
Pregunta 26
Pregunta
Which of the following increases led to Darcy being startled when Darcy’s brothers started yelling?
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frequency of the sound
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amplitude of the sound
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purity of the sound
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timbre of the sound
Pregunta 27
Pregunta
Which type of nerve fibres were responsible for the immediate sensation when Darcy felt pain in her baby toe?
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C fibres
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A-delta fibres
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ungated thalamic fibres
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periaqueductal fibres
Pregunta 28
Pregunta
Complete the following analogy: The visual cortex is to the auditory cortex as the occipital lobe is to the _____.
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frontal lobe
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sensory lobe
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parietal lobe
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temporal lobe
Pregunta 29
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You’ve been sitting on the couch for a while now; there is music playing in the background, and your cat has
fallen asleep with his head on your arm. You are daydreaming about your upcoming vacation, and you don’t
notice or attend to the sound of the music or the pressure of your cat’s very heavy head. What processes result
in these two types of loss of feeling?
Pregunta 30
Pregunta
Complete the following analogy: Hue is to pitch as brightness is to _____.
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purity
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loudness
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retinal disparity
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timbre