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Psy Exam
Module 13-14-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The low notes on a piano always produce ________ sound waves than the high notes. | longer |
| The basilar membrane is located in the: | cochlea |
| Many elderly people lose their hearing for high-pitched sounds due to tissue degeneration near the beginning of the basilar membrane. This is best explained by the ________ theory. | place |
| Digital hearing aids produce ________ sound by restricting the range of sound _______. | compressed; amplitudes |
| The number of complete sound waves that strike one's eardrum in a given second determines the _______ of the sound. | pitch |
| The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to the: | oval window |
| Which theory best explains how we perceive low-pitched sounds? | frequency theory |
| Infant rats deprived of their mothers' grooming touch produce ________ growth hormone and have a ________ metabolic rate. | less, lower |
| The absolute threshold for taste sensations is relatively _______ among people who smoke and relatively ________ among people who abuse alcohol. | high; high |
| There are no specialized neural receptor cells devoted solely to the sense of: | pain. |
| Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the: | cerebellum |
| People's memories of the pain involved in a previously experienced medical procedure are dominated by the: | pain experienced during the final moments of the procedure |
| The olfactory cortex is located within the: | temporal lobes. |
| The fact that perceptions involve more than the sum of our sensations best illustrates the importance of: | top-down processing. |
| The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of: | proximity |
| Monocular cue is to _______ as binocular cue is to ________. | texture gradient; convergence |
| The lights along the runway were shrouded in such a thick fog that the pilot of an incoming plane nearly overshot the runway. The pilot was most likely misled by the distance cue known as: | relative clarity. |
| Drivers sometimes overestimate the distance between their own vehicle and pedestrians who are short because they rely on the distance cue known as: | relative size. |
| The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates: | perceptual constancy. |
| The moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the moon as unusually ________ when it is ________. | large; near the horizon |
| Perceiving the voice of a ventriloquist as originating from the mouth of a dummy best illustrates: | visual capture. |
| Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of: | top-down processing. |
| Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by: | Gestalt psychologists. |
| When your psychology textbook presents readers with a series of short blue lines, they perceive an illusory glowing blue worm. This best illustrates the principle of: | closure |
| Pedro recognized that his son was closer to him than his daughter because his son partially obstructed his view of his daughter. Pedro's perception was most clearly influenced by a distance cue known as: | interposition |
| Railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. This provides a cue for depth perception known as: | linear perspective |
| door casts an increasingly trapezoidal image on our retinas as it opens, yet we still perceive it as rectangular. This illustrates: | shape constancy |
| Relative luminance most clearly contributes to: | lightness constancy. |
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