anna is reading her psychology text. the activation of receptors in her retina is called____; her interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is termed _____ correct answers sensation; perception
the physical properties of a stimulus are translated into neural impulses in a process called ...
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anna is reading her psychology text. the activation of receptors in her retina is called____; her
interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is termed _____ correct answers sensation;
perception
the physical properties of a stimulus are translated into neural impulses in a process called ...
correct answers sensory coding
After transduction, most of the sensory neural information passes through which structure?
correct answers thalamus
according to this information-processing model, the recognition of patterns occurs because the
data are relayed from a lower level to a higher level of processing in the brain correct answers
bottom up processing
the law that states that the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion
of the original stimulus is ____ law correct answers Weber's
When Petra jumps into a cold lake, she feels as though she is freezing. After a few minutes, she
no longer notices the cold and feels comfortable in the water. This change is an example of ...
correct answers sensory adaptation
When Jodi walks from the sunlight into a dark theater, her _____ causes her _____ to enlarge.
correct answers lens; pupil
the area where the optic nerve leaves the retina is referred to as the correct answers blind spot
the primary visual cortex is located in which brain lobe? correct answers occipital lobe
we cannot see a shade of bluish yellow because... correct answers ganglion cells that are excited
by S cones are inhibited by M and L cones
trichromatic theory best explains _____, while opponent-process theory best explains _____.
correct answers how color vision happens at the receptors; how color vision occurs at a neutral
level
Damian frequently runs into Carmen while he is walking his dog. He is puzzled because Carmen
always greets his dog but never greets him until he has spoken to her. He becomes even more
perplexed when Carmen says, "Oh look, there is Ryan's car," even though Ryan is standing right
next to the car. You could enlighten Damian by telling him that Carmen quite likely suffers
from... correct answers prosopagnosia
binocular disparity correct answers the difference in the retinal images of the two eyes that
provides information about depth
,daniel is standing on the platform of the train station. he is looking down the tracks hoping to see
his train. as the tracks get farther from him the two sides of the tracks will appear to ____,
providing the depth cue of ____. correct answers converge, linear perspective
in the ponzo illusion, cues to size and to distance conflict. the fact that an illusion of size is
created suggests that ... correct answers we rely on depth perception to gauge size
If a key is pressed on a piano, the frequency of the resulting sound will determine the ________,
and the amplitude will determine the ________ of the perceived musical note. correct answers
pitch, volume
amanda plays the violin professionally and can easily distinguish between a high C note and a
high B note. what kind of process is responsible for Amanda's ability to make this distinction and
where does it take place? correct answers place coding in the base of the basilar membrane
temporal coding encodes ___ sound, while place coding encodes ____ sounds correct answers
low frequency; high frequency
Callie is pregnant. She has never liked vegetables and rarely eats them. However, she does not
want her baby to have the same bad eating habits. If Callie wants her baby to grow up to enjoy
the taste of vegetables, the most effective thing she can do is... correct answers eat vegetables
during her pregnancy and breastfeeding
sara loves the taste of fish soup because her mother always made it on special holidays when she
was growing up. what part of sara's gustatory system was most likely changed by this
experience? correct answers frontal lobe
olfactory receptors are embedded in the ... correct answers olfactory epithelium, aka the thin
layer of tissue located in the nasal cavity
certain perfume companies advertise that their perfumes can help people attract a mate. if these
perfumes work as advertised, we can take that as evidence of ... correct answers pheromones
according to gate control theory, pain... correct answers can be blocked or intensified by gates in
the CNS, pain is a perceptual experience within the brain rather than simply a response to nerve
stimulation
pain medications such as novocain work by... correct answers blocking transmission from
sensory pain neurons to the brain
the concept of learning includes correct answers
a relatively permanent change in behavior that is due to experience is called... correct answers
learning
, Adjusting to a phone ringing during a lecture is an example of ________ learning, whereas
feeling excited when your own phone gives a text message alert is an example of ________
learning. correct answers nonassociative learning, associative learning
The first time you pick up your pet hamster it recoils in fear, but after a week of handling, your
hamster is not bothered anymore. What change came over your hamster through the simple act of
repetitive handling? correct answers habituation
in ____, learning occurs when two types of events are paired closely in time correct answers
classical conditioning
you are conducting an informal study in which, for a month, you play a particular song just
before you serve dinner to your best friend. eventually, you play just the song to see what will
happen, and you friend begins to salivate and says that she has hunger pains. in this scenario,
what is the unconditioned response? correct answers the food
When conditioning occurs due to the pairing of a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus
(CS), resulting in a CS-CS learned association, this process is known as: correct answers
conditioned response
Pavlov was interested in how long salivation would occur once food no longer followed the
metronome. What is the name of this behavioral process he studied? correct answers extinction
conditioned food aversions are especially likely to occur when the stimulus is a(n) correct
answers unpleasant
To which food would you be more likely to show conditioned taste aversion correct answers a
novel food
in the fear conditioning of Little Albert, John B. Watson used the following stimuli:
unconditioned stimulus - _____; conditioned stimulus - ____. correct answers hammer striking
the steel bar; white rat
according to classical-conditioning theory, phobias develop as the result of correct answers
generalization of fear
the idea that the consequences of our actions determine the likelihood they will be performed in
the future underlies... correct answers operant conditioning
what is the fundamental characteristic of operant conditioning that sets it apart from classical
conditioning? correct answers involves an association of consequence with a behaviro
your friend Carlos tells you that his favorite sports team always wins when he wears red. carlos
developed this association by... correct answers
primary reinforcers correct answers stimuli that satisfy biological needs
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