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Psychology Chpt 6-8
Study Questions for Section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In psychology, the term sensation formally refers to: | the process of detecting a physical stimulus. |
| In contrast to sensation, the term perception is formally defined as the: | active mental process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensory data.. |
| The process by which physical energy, such as light, is converted into a coded neural signal that can be transmitted to and interpreted by the brain is called: | transduction |
| The smallest possible stimulus that can be detected half the time, or the minimum level of stimulus that we can detect is called: | the absolute threshold |
| The smallest possible difference between two stimuli that can be detected is called the: | difference threshold, or just noticeable difference |
| According to ________, whether we can detect a change in the strength of a stimulus depends upon the intensity of the original stimulus: | Weber's Law |
| Aaron puts one toe into the swimming pool and shivers because the water is so cold. He grits his teeth and dives in anyway. After about ten minutes, the temperature of the water seems quite comfortable to him. This example illustrates the principal of: | Sensory Adaptation |
| When psychologists refer to the visible spectrum, they mean | the narrow ranger of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum that are visible to the human. |
| The clear membrane that covers the outside of the eye and helps gather and direct incoming light is called the | Cornea |
| The ______ thickens or thins to focus incoming light. This process is called ______ | Lens; Accommodation |
| The muscle that controls the amount of light entering the pupil is the | Iris |
| As light waves enter the eye, which three structures do they pass through first? | cornea, iris, lens |
| The blind spot is caused by: | the absence of rods or cones tat the point where the optic nerve leaves the eye. |
| Adam had perfect vision until he was 45, and then he needed to start wearing glasses for reading. Most likely, Adam has developed a visual problem called: | presbyopia, caused by the lens of the eyes losing its flexibility. |
| Identify the sequence that correctly represents the path taken by light signals through the eye | cornea, pupil, lens, retina, optic nerve. |
| By definition,stimuli that are perceived subliminally are: | inaccessible to conscious awareness |
| How do glasses correct visual problems? | Glasses correct vision by intercepting and bending incoming light waves so that they are focused properly on the retina |
| Rods are used for vision in _____ light, and cones are used for vision in _____ light. | dim;bright |
| Cones are most concentrated in the: | fovea |
| According to the trichromatic theory of color vision: | cones come in three basic varieties: red-sensitive, green-sensitive, or blue-sensitive |
| Which of the following phenomena can be explained by the opponent-process theory of color vision? | afterimages |
| Our perception of sound is directly related to the physical properties of: | sound waves |
| Loudness is to ____ as pitch is to ____. | amplitude; frequency |
| The primary function of the ____ is to catch sound waves and funnel them into the ear canal. | pinna |
| The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are: | three tiny bones in the middle ear |
| Separating the middle ear from the inner ear is a structure called the: | oval window |
| The inner ear includes which of the following structures? | The cochlea, basilar membrane, and hair cells |
| Which of the following represents the correct sequence of parts of the ear that sound travels in hearing? | pinna, ear canal, eardrum, hammer, anvil, stirrup, oval window, cochlea, basilar membrane, hair cells, auditory nerve |
| Which of the following is true? | Place theory explains how people hear high pitched sounds, while frequency theory explains how people hear low pitched sounds |
| Smell and taste receptors respond to what type of stimulus? | chemical |
| Gustation is to olfaction as ____ is to ____. | taste;smell |
| Which part of the brain is thought to regulate the emotional response to odors? | Which part of the brain is thought to regulate the emotional response to odors? the limbic system |
| The sensation of taste results from the activation of receptor cells by what kind of stimuli? | chemical substances dissolved in saliva |
| The primary tastes include: | sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami(MSG) |
| An influential theory for explaining the experience of pain is called the ____ theory of pain, which holds that the sensation of pain is controlled by a series of ____ in the spinal cord. | gate control; gates |
| You are able to maintain your equilibrium and balance because of the: | vestibular sense |
| According to one important perceptual principle, when we look at a scene we automatically tend to separate the elements of that scene into an object and its background. This principle is called" | Figure-ground relationship |
| In exercise class, your teacher instructs you to close your eyes and touch your toes. Your ability to touch your toes even though you can't see them is due to your ____ sense. | kinesthetic |
| The tendency to group objects that are close to one another as a single unit is called the: | law of proximity |
| Because of the law of _____, you perceive the following as two groups of O's that are separated by a group of dashes. | similarity |
| The letters on the falshing neon sign actually read: CPEN FOR BUSINESS! What law makes us perceive it as OPEN FOR BUSINESS? | closure |
| Two identical model cars are parked at the far end of a parking lot. You are able to determine that one of the cars is closer to you than the other because it appears to be slightly larger This is what perceptual cue? | relative size |
| Feedback from the muscles of the eye can help us judge the distance of an object, because the lens of the eye thickens when we change our focus from a distant object to a nearby object. This is a visual lens called? | accommodation |
| Which of the following statements is correct | the process of accommodation requires only one eye |
| you look at a street sign with first your left eye then your right eye the images look virtually identical. But if you look at your finger held just in front of your nose at a timethe two images look different. | retinal disparity |
| Distance cues that involve both eyes are called ____ cues,while distance cues that involve only one eye are called___ | binocular; monocular |
| the visceral sensory systems involves ____, while the vestibular system involve | internal organs; balance |
| psychologists formally define learning as | a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that is due to past experiance |
| when it comes to the learning theories of conditioning, which psychological perspective has has the most influence? | behaviorism |
| in psychology the term conditioning refers to | learning associations between environmental events and behavioral repsonses |
| in response to a cold temperature, your body will shiver reflexively. Using Pavlov's terminology, the cold temperature would be termed a(n): | unconditioned stimulus UCS |
| In response to cutting up an onion, airborne irritants released by the onion body will cause your eyes to tear, Using Pavlov's terminologym the tears would be termed a(n): | Unconditioned response UCR |
| Essentially, classical conditioning is a process of learning: | an association between two stimuli |
| If you shine a bright light directly into a persons eye, the pupil of the eye will reflexively constrict. Using Pavlov's terminology, the bright light would be termed _____, and the pupil constricting would be termed the ____ | UCS;UCR |
| After repeatedly paring the sound of a bell with food being placed in a dogs mouth,the sound of the bell alone will make the dog salivate. At this point, the sound of the bell is a | conditioned stimulus |
| A young child has learned to associate the sight of a nurse's white uniform witht eh fear and pain of getting an injection. If the young child begins reacting with fear to the sight of any white jacket what has occurred? | stimulus generalization |
| dog had been conditioned to salivate at the sight of meat powderm the meat powder Over the course of several trials, the amount of saliva secreted by the dog decreased to zero, indicating that had occurred. | extinction |
| What was the unconditioned response UCR in Watson and Rayners famous "Little albert" study? | fear in response to loud clanging sound |
| Whenever Ashlie and Chase make love, they always play Ravel's classical instrumental work "Bolero" in the background. One day, as Ashlie is walking past a music appreciation class, she realizes that the class is listening to Ravel's "Bolero." | intimate physical contact with partner |
| Ever since she foolishly drank too much beer at a rock concert and vomited all over her boyfriend, Ana becomes nauseated at the smell or taste of beer. In this example, the conditioned stimulu is ______ and the conditioned response is ____ | the smell of taste of beer; nausea |
| Classical conditioning involves ______ while operant conditioning involves | reflexive behaviors; voluntary behaviors |
| Which of the following statement best captures the flavor of THorndike's law of effect | Rewarded behaviors are more likely to be repeated, while unrewarded behaviors are less likely to be repeated |
| Which of the following statements best captures the basic idea of operant conditioning? | Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences |
| While a primary reinforces derives its reinforcing value ______, conditioned reinforcers derive their reinforcing value _______ | naturally; from primary reinforcers |
| Which of the following would be considered a secondary or conditioed reinforcer | MONEY |
| Negative reinforcement ____ the likehood of a behavior being repeated, and punishment the likehood of a behavior being repeated | increases; decreases |
| Punishment is most effective if: | it consistently follows the operant |
| Which of the following alternatives to punishment represents the BEST method for reducing a problem behavior? | Corby is reinforced to work quietly in class instead of being punished for talking in class. |
| If you reinforce successively closer approximation of a behavior until the desired behavior is displayed, you are using the operant conditiong procedure called: | Shaping |
| Partial reinforcement is to _______ as continuous reinforcement is to _______ | sometimes; always |
| The _____ schedules of reinforcement produce behavior that is more resistant to extinction | variable ration and variable interval |
| A rat in Skinner box receieves a food pellet every ten times the bar is pressed.. The rat is on the ______ schedule of reinforcement | fixed ratio |
| A rat in Skinners box is reinforced for the first bar press it makes after one minute of time has elapsed. The rat is on a _____ scedule of reinforcement. | fixed interval |
| If exposesure to inescapable and uncontrollable avversive events produces passive behavior, the response of passivity is termed: | learned helplessness |
| Which of the following researchers would most likely believe that we learn to do things by seeing others receive rewards or punishments for their actions | Albert Bandura |
| Positive reinforcement is to negative reinforcement as: | addition of a reinforcing stimulus is to removal of an aversive stimulus |
| The famous Bobo doll research was conducted by _____ and showed power of _______ | Albert Bandura; observational learning |
| According to the multi-store or stage model of memory: | memory involves the stages of sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory |
| short term memory is often referred to as | working memory |
| Visual sensory memory is to auditory sensory memory as _____ is to ______ | iconic memory; echoic memory |
| As Awais watched Amyee wave fourth of the 4th of July sparkler back and forth, he noticed that the sparkler seemed to produce a trailing afterimage that faded withing a split second. Which type of sensory memory can account for the quickly fading after | iconic memory |
| Arielle found ISBN number, to remember eleven digit she thoughout of the number as the year her best friend was born and her aunt's phone number Arielle was using what strategy | chunking |
| Merely repeating information over and over is called _____ while focusing on the meaning of the information is called ________ | maintenance rehearsal; elaborate rehearsal |
| The amount of information that can be held in long term memory: | seems to be limitless |
| Which of the following statements about long-term memory is FALSE | One effective strategy for encoding information is maintenance rehearsal |
| Knowledge of how to perform different skils and actions is called _____ while knowledge of facts, concepts, ad ideas is called ______ | procedural; semantic |
| Carlyle vividly remembers when he had to go to the emergency room for stitches on his left thigh. This is an example of which type of long-term memory | episodic memory |
| Another name for explicit memory is | declarative memory |
| ______ is the process of accessing information stored in long term memory | retrieval |
| Essay tests are to _____ as matching tests are to ______ | free recall; cued recall |
| While trying to recall a list of items in correct order, the tendency to remember the first items in the list is called ____ while the tendency to remember the last items in the list is called ____ | the primacy effect; the recency effect |
| Following the death of his father, Baudilio became extremly despondent for several weeks. During this tie, he seemed to dwell on other upleasant memories and other sad experiences in his life. Baudilio's recall of other sad memories is an example of: | mood congruence |
| Christopher can recall very specific and vivid details of the day his son was born. Chris memory of this very emotional, personal event in his life is an example of what is called: | flashbulb memory |
| which of the following is NOT a possible cause of forgetting described in your text book? | consolidation |
| When old memories interfere with a new memory,____ is said to have occurred, and when a new memory interferes with an old memory, ___ is said to have occurred | proactive interference; retroactive interference |
| ___ is due to conscious deliberate forgetting as ____ is due to unconcious forgetting | suppression; repression |
| The idea of repression is a cornerstone of psychoanalysism Sigmund Frued's famous theory of personality and psychotherapy. According to Frued, what gets repressed | psychologically threatening feelings, emotions, and memories, especially those from early childhood |
| Justin was involved in an automobile accident and sustained a serious injury to his head. When asked about the accident Justin could not remember what happened or how the accident occurred. Justin is suffering from | retrograde amnesia |
| The inability to remember pst events is ___ as the inability to form new memories is ___. | Retrograde amnesia; anterograde amnesia |
| The gradual, physical process of converting new long term memories into stable enduring memory codes is termed: | memory consolidation |
| Andrea is determined to ace her microbiology final. What is least likely to help her | going w/o sleep the night before the exam and studying right up until she takes the test |
| The cocktail party effect provides an example of: | selective attention |
| Which of the following helps the process of consolidating new memories | sleep |
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