Experimental Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology explores the scientific methods and principles used to investigate human and animal behavior. This course covers topics such as experimental design, hypothesis testing, data collection, and statistical analysis. Students will learn how to formulate research questions, conduct experiments, analyze results, and interpret findings. Emphasis is placed on understanding the ethical considerations in psychological research and developing critical thinking skills to evaluate psychological studies. By the end of the course, students will have a solid foundation in experimental methodology and be prepared to apply these techniques in various areas of psychology.
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Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Perception
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Q1) Response __________ in a magnitude estimation experiment when doubling the stimulus intensity LESS than doubles the subjective magnitude of the stimulus.
A) accretion
B) compression
C) regression
D) expansion
Answer: B
Q2) Using Weber's Law, if the DL for a 100 gram weight standard is 2 grams, then the DL when using a 200 gram standard would be ____ grams.
A) 0.02
B) 2
C) 4
D) 50
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Beginnings of Perception
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Q1) Rushton demonstrated that the physiological mechanism behind dark adaptation is A) visual pigment regeneration.
B) the enzyme cascade.
C) modular organization.
D) photon remission.
Answer: A
Q2) Acuity develops to almost 20/20 vision by the time the infant is
A) one month old.
B) two months old.
C) one year old.
D) two years old.
Answer: C
Q3) Jan tries to focus on the tip of her pencil as she brings it closer to her. She feels the strain on her eye as she does this. What she is feeling in her eye is due to the process called
A) inhibition.
B) reflection.
C) accommodation.
D) assimilation.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Neural Processing and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following proposed representational systems is the least likely to actually be in place in the human visual system?
A) Sparse coding
B) Specificity coding
C) Representation by a small number of neurons
D) Distributed coding
Answer: B
Q2) The gray intersections in the Hermann Grid
A) are physically present.
B) are explained by dark adaptation.
C) support the claim that "perception is not the same as the physical stimulus."
D) are best explained by feature detectors.
Answer: C
Q3) Neurons in the ________ respond to complex stimuli, but not simple stimuli such as straight lines.
A) LGN
B) Striate cortex
C) IT cortex
D) Retina
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Cortical Organization
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Q1) Tsao et al. (2006) found that _____ of neurons in the monkey IT cortex were face selective.
A) 12%
B) 97%
C) 70%
D) 43%.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a type of column in the striate cortex?
A) location
B) ocular dominance
C) orientation
D) double dissociative
Q3) The retinotopic map on the LGN has been determined by recording from neurons in the ______ .
A) retina
B) optic nerve
C) LGN
D) MTL
Q4) Describe the procedure, results, and implications of the Quiroga et al.'s (2005) "Halle Berry neuron" study.
Q5) Describe how an object such as a tree is represented in the striate cortex.
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Chapter 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes
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Q1) In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _________, whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _______.
A) object; setting
B) ground; figure
C) near point; distance
D) figure; ground
Q2) Structuralists would be most likely to endorse which of the following statements?
A) Sensations and perceptions are the same "unit" of thought.
B) The whole of something is greater than its parts.
C) Perceptions can be explained by the sensations that make them up.
D) Past experience plays little or no role in perception formation.
Q3) The theory of unconscious inference
A) was developed by Treisman in the 1990's.
B) is closely related to the "likelihood principle."
C) describes the use of algortithms in perception.
D) is incompatible with Gestalt psychology.
Q4) Describe Grill-Spector et al.'s (2004) Harrison Ford study and the results of that study.
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Chapter 6: Visual Attention
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Q1) _________ can be generated based on saliency principles and used to predict early fixations in a scene.
A) Contrast maps
B) Salience decoders
C) Interest point files
D) Saliency maps
Q2) Parkhurst et al. (2002) showed that observers make initial fixations in a visual scene based on
A) stimulus saliency.
B) meaningfulness.
C) stimulus schema.
D) scotopic representations.
Q3) The spreading enhancement effect of attention can help us perceive A) occluded objects.
B) the oblique effect.
C) grating stimuli.
D) illusory conjunctions.
Q4) Describe Posner et al.'s (1978) precueing procedure, the classic results obtained using this procedure, and the implications for attention theory.
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Chapter 7: Taking Action
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Q1) Lee et al.'s "Swinging Room" studies found that
A) only adults are affected by flow information.
B) only young children are affected by flow information.
C) children will lean back when a forward-swaying flow pattern was created.
D) adults were always able to keep their balance in the moving room.
Q2) Elena looks at a banana and realizes that the banana is "eat-able." This an example of
A) optic flow.
B) a texture gradient.
C) ataxia.
D) an affordance.
Q3) Mirror neurons in the monkey fire
A) when the monkey sees the experimenter grasp a piece of food, and when the monkey also grasps the food.
B) when the experimenter grasps the food with his/her fingers, and when the experimenter picks up the food using pliers.
C) when the monkey sees the food reflected in a mirror.
D) when the monkey grasps the food with his/her fingers, and when the monkey picks up the food using pliers.
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Chapter 8: Perceiving Motion
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Q1) According to Corollary Discharge Theory, movement is perceived when A) there is a disturbance in the global optic array.
B) the comparator receives the corollary discharge signal and image displacement signal simultaneously.
C) the comparator receives the corollary discharge signal alone or image displacement signal alone.
D) the comparator finds dissimilarities between the local and global optic arrays.
Q2) The condition of the patient of Zihl, et al., who had cortical lesions that affected her motion perception, is called
A) prosopagnosia.
B) akinetopsia.
C) stroboscopia.
D) amblyopia.
Q3) The connection between MT neurons and movement perception has been supported by
A) lesioning studies.
B) microstimulation studies.
C) both lesioning and microstimulation studies.
D) neither lesioning nor microstimulation studies.
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Chapter 9: Perceiving Color
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Q1) The rarest form of dichromatism is
A) deuteranopia.
B) protanopia.
C) tritanopia.
D) fruitopia.
Q2) Which of the following is behavioral support for the "opponent-process theory"?
A) color afterimages
B) color matching
C) visual pigment absorption rates
D) the univariance effect
Q3) Dr. Lanzilotti wants to create a stimulus that will produce an afterimage of a red heart shape against a white background. He should make the heart ______ and the background _______.
A) red; green
B) green; black
C) blue; white
D) pink; red
Q4) Evaluate Newton's claim that the light "rays are not coloured."
Q5) Describe three demonstrations that support the opponent-process theory of color vision.
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Chapter 10: Perceiving Depth and Size
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Q1) The anecdote in the book of the pilot misjudging the size of an object on the ground in whiteout conditions is most closely related to which research study?
A) Holway and Boring's (1941) "hallway" study
B) Blake and Hirsch's (1975) "selective rearing of kittens" study
C) Julesz's (1971) "random-dot stereogram" study
D) DeLucia and Hochberg's (1985) "dumbbell Muller-Lyer" study
Q2) Individuals suffering from "walleye" and other conditions in which the eyes are misaligned have difficulty with depth perception because
A) the cortex receives messages from both eyes, making it difficult to attend to one visual stimulus.
B) the visual system suppresses vision in one eye in order to avoid having the experience of double vision.
C) the misaligned eye movements are "jittery" making it difficult to form a stable percept. D) they are unable to use any picture depth cues.
Q3) Suppose you watch a "3-D" movie (using red/blue "3-D glasses") with your friends.
After the movie, a friend asks "Why do we see such depth in this movie?" Summarize how you would answer this question.
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Chapter 11: Hearing
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Q1) Bendor and Wang (2005), when presenting a complex tone with a 182 Hz fundamental frequency to a marmoset, found a neuron that responded to a 182-Hz tone when presented alone but not when any of the harmonics were presented alone. The neuron that responded just to 182-Hz tone is an example of a(n) _______ neuron.
A) plasticity
B) amplitude
C) pitch
D) spectral
Q2) The bending of the cilia of the ________ causes a release of small bursts of neurotransmitter.
A) inner hair cells
B) outer hair cells
C) tectorial membrane
D) apex
Q3) The audibility curve of a 6-month-old infant
A) is similar to the audibility curve for an adult.
B) is the same as the audibility curve for a 1-month-old.
C) cannot be determined at such a young age.
D) shows that localization develops over the first 6 months.
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Chapter 12: Auditory Localization and Organization
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Q1) Vision: figure-ground segregation :: Audition: ________________.
A) the ecological approach
B) intimacy
C) auditiory scene analysis
D) Fourier analysis
Q2) Define visual capture and give examples of this concept.
Q3) Interaural level differences are a cue to auditory localization because the
A) person's head creates an acoustic shadow that prevents high-frequency sounds from reaching the far ear.
B) person's head creates an acoustic shadow that prevents low-frequency sounds from reaching the far ear.
C) medium through which the sound travels can be air, liquid, or solid.
D) acoustic shadow is more likely to occur in an enclosed space than outdoors.
Q4) Spectral cues for auditory localization are provided by
A) the frequency of the sound wave.
B) the interaural level difference.
C) the head position and the pinnae.
D) the motion of the stimulus.
Q5) Discuss research that shows that similarity of pitch and timbre affects auditory grouping.
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Chapter 13: Speech Perception
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Q1) Micelli et al. (1980) found that brain damage to the parietal lobe caused the patient to have difficulty discriminating between syllables. Micelli et al found that
A) all these patients could not understand words.
B) all these patients had "word deafness."
C) some of these patients could not hear pure tones.
D) some of these patients could still understand words.
Q2) Warren showed that when a cough sound replaced the sound of the first /s/ in the word "legislatures," listeners reported hearing
A) just the cough sound where the /s/ was originally.
B) just the cough sound because it masked the whole word.
C) just the /s/ sound.
D) the cough and the /s/ sound, but the cough position was not correctly identified.
Q3) The ______ is the shortest segment of speech that, if changed, changes the meaning of the word.
A) formants
B) phonemes
C) tadomas
D) morphemes
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Chapter 14: The Cutaneous Senses
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Q1) The phenomenon of "phantom limb" is difficult to explain using the _______ of pain.
A) direct pathway model.
B) gate control model.
C) both gate control and direct pathway models.
D) neither; both gate control and direct pathway models can explain phantom limb.
Q2) What is the duplex theory of texture perception? Describe research that supports this theory.
Q3) Which if the following is an "exploratory procedure" identified by Lederman and Klatzky?
A) Enclosure
B) Pressure
C) Contour following
D) All of these are EPs.
Q4) Which of the following structures is not part of the pain matrix?
A) amygdala
B) insula
C) ACC
D) SEC
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Chapter 15: The Chemical Senses
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Q1) The substance amiloride
A) blocks the flow of sucrose to taste receptors.
B) blocks the flow of sodium to taste receptors.
C) increases neural responses to salt detection.
D) neutralizes bitter tastes by confusing the signal.
Q2) Flavor is the impression a person gets from
A) taste only.
B) the combination of olfaction and kinesthesis.
C) the combination of olfaction and taste.
D) the combination of olfaction, taste, and vision.
Q3) ____ tastes cause an autonomic acceptance response and prepares the gastrointestinal tract for these substances.
A) Bitter
B) Sweet
C) Sour
D) Umami
Q4) Describe the Proust effect and provide a physiological explanation for its occurrence.
Q5) Discuss how "top-down" processing is involved in odor perception; form both a behavioral and physiological approach.
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