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Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology introduces students to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes through empirical investigation and experimentation. The course covers foundational concepts such as research design, hypothesis formulation, variable measurement, data collection, and statistical analysis. Students learn how to critically evaluate psychological research, understand ethical considerations in experimentation, and design their own studies to explore topics like perception, learning, memory, and social behavior. Emphasis is placed on developing practical skills in conducting experiments, analyzing results, and interpreting findings within the broader context of psychological theories and principles.
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Sensation and Perception 2nd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: What Is Perception
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Q1) Which term describes our subjective experience of perception?
A)action
B)phenomenology
C)reception
D)cognitive penetrations
Answer: B
Q2) The signal produced by receptor cells that can then be sent to the brain is known as the ______.
A)perceptual attribute
B)perceptual absolute
C)neural signal
D)transduction signal
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following statements describes the computational approach?
A)It was pioneered by J.J.and Eleanor Gibson.
B)It was informed by early research into artificial intelligence.
C)It emphasizes the role of sensory organs in perception.
D)It rejects the foundations of the information-processing approach.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Compare and contrast electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).Be sure to include both similarities and differences in your analysis.
Answer: Both EEG and MEG detect rapid changes in the brain, and both can be used to make special maps of the brain.There are several important differences between these two technologies, however.EEG uses electrodes to detect brain signals, while MEG uses magnetic sensors to detect magnetic fields caused by the brain's electrical activity.EEG provides a more precise time scale for changes in the brain than MEG does, but MEG provides better special maps.
Q2) Which of the following will an audiogram show?
A)the increase in decibels required to get a binaural response
B)the extent of neural damage in the cochlea
C)the increase in sensitivity due to advanced hearing loss
D)the lowering of sensitivity for different frequencies in each ear
Answer: D
Q3) Masking occurs when two different senses are stimulated simultaneously.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
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Q1) Describe the role of the pupil in human vision.
Answer: The pupil is the opening in the iris that allows light to enter the eye.The pupil expands in dim light and contracts in bright light.This process, known as the pupillary reflex, allows the eye to regulate how much light enters the eye.Our two eyes are coordinated so that they both expand or contract simultaneously.
Q2) Spatial summation usually causes things to appear very sharp and clear.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Harry is a 90-year-old man.He shows impaired visual acuity and color vision in both eyes, though his peripheral vision is unimpaired.He has difficulties reading even with powerful reading glasses.Your diagnosis?
A)retinitis pigmentosa
B)macular degeneration
C)cataracts
D)heterochromia
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
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Q1) Conjugate gaze palsies can be complications of which condition?
A)a compromised pineal gland
B)facial muscle degeneration
C)cataracts
D)allergies
Q2) Mishkin et al.(1983) trained rhesus monkeys to do two different tasks.One task was called a landmark task, which required the monkeys to remember the location of an event, and the other task was called an object task, which required the monkeys to learn a particular object.What did they discover?
A)Rhesus monkeys were excellent at the landmark task, but poor at the object task.
B)Lesioning of the inferotemporal cortex resulted in impaired performance on the landmark task.
C)Lesioning of the frontal eye fields resulted in a decline in all performance.
D)Lesioning of the inferotemporal cortex resulted in impaired performance on the object task.
Q3) Explain what Hubel and Wiesel's research on simple cells revealed about ocular dominance.
Q4) Explain why scientists do not believe the term "blindsight" is a paradox.
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Chapter 5: Object Perception
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Q1) Compare and contrast the fusiform face area (FFA) and the occipital face area (OFA).Be sure to discuss at least one thing that they have in common and at least one way that they are different.
Q2) Grouping and segregation are processes in perceptual organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE in figure-ground organization?
A)The top of a scene tends to be seen as figure and the bottom as background.
B)A figure with asymmetrical borders is more likely to be judged as being in the foreground than in the background.
C)A figure is more likely to be perceived as being in the foreground if it is perceived to be on the convex side of a border.
D)A figure with illusory contours is likely to be perceived as both foreground and background.
Q4) The law of proximity, the law of good continuation, and the law of similarity are gestalt principles of organization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Color Perception
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Q1) Color mixing in which a new color is made by the removal of wavelengths from a light with a broad spectrum of wavelengths is known as ______.
A)subtractive color mixing
B)additive color mixing
C)multiplicative color mixing
D)metameric color mixing
Q2) If you stare at a bright incandescent light bulb for even a short time and then close your eyes, you will continue to see an afterimage of that light bulb for a relatively brief period.But you will notice that even though the light bulb has a yellowish hue, your afterimage will appear somewhat blue.This phenomenon supports the ______ theory of color vision?
A)trichromatic
B)opponent-process
C)competitive
D)ancillary
Q3) Why is the term color deficiency a more accurate label than is the term color blindness?
Q4) Define color constancy, and give an example that demonstrates the concept.
Q5) Explain how and why color perception can change as adults age.
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Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
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Q1) Linear perspective refers to ______.
A)a visual cue that occurs when one object partially hides or obstructs the view of a second object
B)a visual cue in which objects closer to the horizon are seen as more distant
C)retinal size alone
D)the pictorial depth cue that arises from the fact that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance
Q2) Relative size refers to the fact that the closer an object is, the smaller the image will be on the retina.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Francois is a passenger in a car moving at 65 miles per hour down the highway.When Francois looks out the windows, nearby objects will appear to rush by him in the opposite direction, but objects farther way appear to move more slowly relative to the car.Which depth cue is this associated with?
A)binocular disparity
B)motion parallax
C)linear perspective
D)optic flow
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Chapter 8: Movement and Action
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Q1) An area of the posterior parietal lobe involved in the planning and control of reaching movements of the arms is known as the ______.
A)MT
B)vast parietal belt
C)medial intraparietal area
D)lateral intraparietal area
Q2) Larsen et al.(2006) compared the neural responses to real and apparent motion by recording brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology.The fMRI brain scans ______.
A)found that the areas of the primary visual cortex that were responsive to apparent motion were the same as those responsive to real motion
B)found that different areas of the occipital lobe were responsible for real and apparent motion
C)could distinguish between real and apparent motion, but only when the scans focused on the lateral geniculate nucleus
D)could distinguish between real and apparent motion, but only when the scans focused on the occipital lobe
Q3) How do people infer form from the point-light walker display?
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Chapter 9: Visual Attention
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Q1) Zaid searches for a green ball among green squares and orange balls.This is an example of a ______ search.
A)feature
B)conjunction
C)change-detection
D)gorilla pattern
Q2) In the Posner cueing paradigm, participants attend to cues that indicate to which side a light will occur.However, the participant must maintain fixation at the central point.The goal of this study is to determine if ______.
A)alertness and attention refer to the same psychological construct
B)attention can be divided without a cost in performance during neutral trials
C)attention can be selectively introduced vicariously
D)attention can be covert, or directed to a location other than where the person is looking
Q3) How does binocular rivalry demonstrate the top-down processing of perception?
Q4) Give an example of covert attention and an example of overt attention.
Q5) Compare and contrast selective attention and undivided attention.Give an example for each.
Q6) How does stimulus salience relate to attentional capture?
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Chapter 10: The Auditory System
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Q1) The amount of time between one peak of high pressure and the next in sound is known as ______.
A)the electromagnetic element
B)the sound spectrogram
C)a cycle
D)a rarefied invertebrate
Q2) The thin elastic sheet that vibrates in response to sounds coming through the external auditory canal, commonly known as the eardrum, is the ______.
A)auditory meatus
B)tensor tympani
C)oval window
D)tympanic membrane
Q3) Sound travels ______ in water than it does in air, but sound travels ______ relative to light.
A)slower; slower
B)faster; faster
C)faster; slower
D)slower; faster
Q4) How do the parts of a cochlear implant work together.
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Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
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Q1) Li hears various frequencies that overlap in harmonic structure and groups them together as the sound created by an electric guitar being played.By doing this, Li is using ______ segregation.
A)temporal
B)spatial
C)spectral
D)acoustic
Q2) The Symphony Hall in Boston has excellent acoustics.Considering this, the hall probably ______.
A)reduces the reverberation of higher frequencies
B)has a reverberation time of six seconds
C)reduces the reverberation of lower frequencies
D)has a reverberation time of ten seconds
Q3) Give an example of how bats use biosonar to determine the size and distance of targets.
Q4) Biosonar systems work best when the sounds emitted by the animals are of very low frequency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain spectral segregation and give an example.
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Chapter 12: Speech Perception
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Q1) An area located in the superior temporal sulcus that responds to the sound of the human voice, but less so to other stimuli, is known as the ______.
A)voice area
B)phonemic restoration area
C)pharynx
D)speech recognition gyrus
Q2) General-mechanism theories of speech perception claim that the mechanisms for speech perception are distinct and unique relative to the mechanisms for auditory perception in general.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To determine if the person you are listening to has just said, "The fryer gave potatoes to the chipmunk" or "The friar gave potatoes to the chip monk," you must know ______.
A)the exact pronunciation of each word
B)how to apply top-down processing to the situation
C)the schedule of coarticulation
D)whether the sentences are voiced or not
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Chapter 13: Music Perception
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Q1) Why was Beethoven's life was somewhat tragic?
A)A genetic disorder caused him to hallucinate whenever music was played too loudly.
B)Doctors restored his hearing with the use of horns, and then he lost his sight.
C)He was born deaf and never could hear any of his own compositions.
D)Music was his life, and he lost his ability to hear and conduct music at an early age.
Q2) Two tones that can be expressed as a simple ratio of each other tend to sound pleasant when played together.This relates to the concept of ______.
A)consonance
B)dissonance
C)assonance
D)convergence
Q3) Timbre is the perceived sound differences between sounds with the same pitch but possessing different higher harmonics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the relationship between pitch and frequency.
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Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
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Q1) The somatosensory cortex is an area in the parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex that ______.
A)is devoted to processing the information coming from the skin senses
B)receives input from the spinothalamic pathway
C)is primarily responsible for vestibular responses
D)is the first cortical region that receives input from nociceptors
Q2) How is the sensation of itch similar to the sensation of pain?
A)Neither is more than an inconvenience.
B)Neither can be alleviated quickly.
C)Both are interpreted as unpleasant.
D)Both create a withdrawal response.
Q3) Select all that apply.Tuberous receptors are ______.
A)able to generate an electric shock that would be fatal to humans
B)usually tuned to receive high frequency AC current
C)tuned by evolution to detect the fields generated by specific electric discharges by nearby fish
D)the organ that contains the hair cells that detect electric fields, used in active electroreception
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Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste
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Q1) Animals who depend on their sense of smell and have senses of smell far superior to that of humans, such as bears and dogs, are classified as ______.
A)microsmatic
B)macrosmatic
C)olfactory neutral
D)super tri-geminates
Q2) Turbinates are bony knots of tissue that serve to disperse air within the nasal cavity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mitral and tufted cells are found in the ______ and project to______.
A)piriform cortex; the amygdala
B)olfactory bulb; other areas of the brain
C)entorhinal cortex; the trigeminal nerve
D)cribriform plate; the anterior cingulate gyrus
Q4) Which of these is considered a basic taste?
A)stale
B)bland
C)salty
D)spicy
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