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TEST BANKSensation and Perception
Bennett L. Schwartz, and John H. Krantz
3rd Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 What Is Perception? 1
Chapter 02 Research Methodology 13
Chapter 03 Visual System: The Eye 25
Chapter 04 Visual System: The Brain 37
Chapter 05 Object Perception 49
Chapter 06 Color Perception 61
Chapter 07 Depth and Size Perception 73
Chapter 08 Movement and Action 85
Chapter 09 Visual Attention 97
Chapter 10 The Auditory System 110
Chapter 11 The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization 122
Chapter 12 Speech Perception 134
Chapter 13 Music Perception 147
Chapter 14 Touch and Pain 160
Chapter 15 Olfaction and Taste 172
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Chapter 01 What Is Perception?
True / False
1. Biologists have little interest in sensation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
2. Emotion does not factor into perception in psychology.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
3. Human beings have more than five senses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
4. Most scientists believe that vision and hearing should be considered part of the same sensory system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Easy
5. Neuropsychology tries to understand the changes in behavior that can occur due to brain damage.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
6. Perception is the process of creating conscious perceptual experience from sensory input.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
7. Present day neuroimaging technology is now able to look at single cells.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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DIFFICULTY: Easy
8. The computational approach builds on the information-processing approach.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
9. Transduction is the process of converting a physical stimulus into an electrochemical signal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Easy
10. The idea that the brain needs to reconstruct a visual image based on insufficient information is consistent
with a constructivist approach.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Medium
Multiple Choice
11. A central goal of our perceptual processes is producing a(n) _______________ representation.
a. unconscious
b. pleasing
c. truthful
d. creative
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
12. Agnosia is a deficit in what due to brain damage?
a. memory
b. perception
c. balance
d. sensation
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
13. How many sensory systems do humans have?
a. 1–2
b. 5–6
c. 7–12
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d. 15–20
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
14. Humans must choose which stimuli to focus on. Which term refers to the important or interesting stimuli
that stand out to us?
a. attended
b. potential
c. internal
d. favored
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
15. What has the ability to penetrate a single neuron in a mammal without destroying the cell?
a. receptors
b. transductions
c. microelectrodes
d. fMRIs
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
16. Which action is associated with our proprioception system?
a. keeping our balance
b. processing temperatures
c. monitoring body position
d. identifying pressure
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
17. Which approach to perception claims that information in the sensory world is complex and abundant, and
therefore the perceptual systems need only directly perceive such complexity?
a. signal detection view
b. cognitive approach
c. unconscious inference approach
d. direct perception view
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Easy
18. Which concept was developed by Johannes Mueller in trying to understand perception in the early years?
a. the doctrine of specific nerve energies
b. the discovery of the sensory experience known as motion aftereffect
c. the view that three nerve fibers are responsible for color vision
d. the first acuity test for vision
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ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
19. Which is, in fact, a human sensory ability even if it is not considered one of the five canonical senses?
a. touch
b. proprioception
c. vision
d. hearing
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
20. Which term describes our subjective experience of perception?
a. action
b. phenomenology
c. reception
d. cognitive penetration
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
21. Which term is defined as converting physical energy into a neural signal?
a. sensation
b. perception
c. transduction
d. aftereffect
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
22. Which term is defined as motor activity?
a. perception
b. aftereffect
c. action
d. agnosia
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
23. Which term is defined as the study of the relation of brain damage to changes in behavioral and cognitive
function?
a. functional neuroscience
b. gestalt psychology
c. psychophysics
d. neuropsychology
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Easy
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24. Which term refers to the registering of a physical stimulus on our sensory receptors?
a. sensation
b. perception
c. attention
d. registration
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
25. Which term refers to the signal produced by receptor cells that can then be sent to the brain?
a. perceptual attribute
b. perceptual absolute
c. neural signal
d. transduction signal
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
26. Which view proposes that perceptual processes take place over time and can be thought of in terms of a
software/hardware metaphor?
a. information processing view
b. direct perception view
c. Gibsonian approach
d. provisionist approach
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
27. Which view states that perceptions are created using information from our senses and cognitive processes?
a. environmental
b. direct perception
c. constructivist
d. gestalt
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
28. Damage to area V1 in patient DB’s occipital cortex resulted in _________________.
a. a condition known as apraxia
b. a condition known as visual agnosia
c. blindness in certain parts of the visual field
d. no behavioral changes
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
29. Hubel and Wiesel used single-cell recording to _________________.
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a. uncover the basic organization of the olfactory system
b. determine the function of individual neurons in mammalian visual cortex
c. determine the rate at which information moves across synapses in the mammalian visual cortex
d. uncover the role of dopamine and other neurotransmitters in perceptual processes
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Medium
30. In the Aristotle illusion, two crossed fingers are touched by a pencil. Participants observe that
_________________.
a. two points are perceived instead of one
b. the pencil feels larger than it is
c. the two touches cancel each other out
d. the touch is felt only on the bottom finger
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
31. The doctrine of specific nerve energies argues that activating _________________.
a. visual neurons will cause auditory experience
b. auditory neurons can cause only an auditory experience
c. sensory neurons cause loss of action in the opposite hemisphere
d. multiple neurons simultaneously can lead to misperception
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Medium
32. The ecological approach to perception finds fault with experiments that _________________.
a. focus on audition because vision is more important
b. use laboratory stimuli that do not correspond to real-world stimuli
c. use neuroimaging technology to study perceptual phenomena
d. focus on physiological rather than psychological processes
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Medium
33. What is most likely to happen when we spin Benham’s top?
a. We see colors that are illusory.
b. We see motion-induced auditory illusions.
c. The direction of the spin appears to reverse.
d. Our fingers detect two-point thresholds.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
34. Which definition best describes prosopagnosia?
a. an acquired deficit in face perception because of brain damage
b. the complete loss of the somatosensory system
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c. blindness due to brain damage
d. a condition that develops after extended exposure to fMRI fields
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
35. Which definition most accurately describes the understanding of perception?
a. turning sensory input into meaningful conscious experiences
b. registering a physical stimulus on our sensory receptors
c. using logic to interpret sensory data
d. converting auditory input into a visual stimulus
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
36. Which finding is remarkable about Kanizsa’s triangle?
a. The triangle is seen because we perceive edges that are not present.
b. It is physically presented but masked so that it is not seen.
c. Fading in and out occurs when you stare at the triangle.
d. A spinning motion appears to occur even though the triangle is stationary.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
37. Which sense has little effect on our perception of flavor?
a. taste
b. vision
c. smell
d. balance
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Medium
38. Which sentence is true about Weber’s law?
a. The specific neurons activated determine the particular type of experience.
b. Information from a sensory signal is inadequate to explain the richness of human experience.
c. A just-noticeable difference between two stimuli is related to the magnitude or strength of the
stimuli.
d. To perceive a doubling of brightness, the intensity of light must increase 10-fold.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
39. Which statement about neuroscience is true?
a. It is interested in the cellular level.
b. It envisions the brain as a giant computer.
c. It focuses on the whole rather than its parts
d. It is primarily concerned with a single region of the brain.
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ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Medium
40. Which statement accurately describes the computational approach?
a. The computational approach was pioneered by J. J. and Eleanor Gibson.
b. This approach was informed by early research into artificial intelligence.
c. The sensory organs in perception make up the bulk of this approach.
d. Computational approach rejects the foundations of the information-processing approach.
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Medium
41. Which statement best explains psychological processes in sensation and perception?
a. Attention makes it difficult to fully trust our senses and perceptions.
b. Neuroimaging is the only way we understand our sensory experiences.
c. Bias affects how we perceive sensory stimuli.
d. Emotion most clearly affects our sensation and perception of sound.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
42. Which statement is true of Gestalt psychology?
a. It was first articulated by Gustav Fechner.
b. It rejects the role of nature in human behavior.
c. It stresses the visual perception of edges.
d. It views the human brain as a giant computer.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
43. Which term is associated with Gestalt psychology in terms of developmental issues?
a. nurture
b. Agnosia
c. Nature
d. amusia
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
44. Which understanding did Helmholtz and Hering disagree about?
a. what should be considered perception and what should be considered sensation
b. signal detection theory and just-noticeable differences
c. the nature of color vision and whether perception involves unconscious inferences
d. the doctrine of specific energy and the role of psychophysics in understanding perception
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Medium
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