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PSY 252 EXAM QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS 2024-2025
Neuroscience - Answer The study of the brain focuses on the brain structures and
processes that underpin behaviour.
S&P, Cognitive Psychology: ANSWER Concentrates on the study of the mind,
such as abstract and conceptual knowledge.
Computer analogy: ANSWER The study of the brain is analogous to the computer
itself and its underlying components. The study of the mind is analogous to
someone detailing what the computer can accomplish and how it does it.
Interdisciplinary Study - ANSWER Perceptual Neuroscience and Cognitive
Neuroscience
S&P - ANSWER Processes by which we receive and experience (detect and
understand) data from the environment
Cognition - Answer Additional mental processes via which we learn from new
information, recall information, and use information to solve issues and make
decisions.
Sensation - ANSWER - acquiring sensory information from the environment.
- Involves the absorption of energy like light and sound waves by sensory organs
such as the eyes and hearing, and the conversion of that energy into the electrical
impulses used by the nervous system.
Perception - Answer - Interpreting and comprehending sensory information.
- Transforming sensory information into something meaningful.
, What are the sensations and perceptions experienced during thunderstorms? -
ANSWER Sensation is hearing the thunder, whereas perception is realising that it
is thunder.
What sensations and perceptions arise when pizza is present? - ANSWER
Sensation is smelling the pizza, while perception is knowing it's pizza.
Sensory systems: ANSWER Each sensory system contains specialised receptors
that respond to a form of energy (or physical signal) from the surroundings.
TRANSDUCTION - ANSWER When receptors transform physical signals into
brain reactions, such as electrical signals.
What information is transmitted to a sense's primary receiving area in the cortex? -
ANSWER: neuronal impulses generated by transduction
- The sensory data is then analysed, and the subjective sensation/perception is
created.
Is perception perfect? - ANSWER Perception is not a picture-perfect mirror that
completely reflects reality; rather, it is an interpretation of information from the real
world.
Perceptual neuroscience - ANSWER Understanding the neuroscientific, molecular,
and physiological bases of sensation and perception.
Cognitive Neuroscience - ANSWER Understanding the neuroscientific, molecular,
and physiological foundations of cognition
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