Experimental Psychology
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Experimental Psychology explores the fundamental principles and methods used to investigate human behavior and mental processes through empirical research. This course covers the design, implementation, and interpretation of psychological experiments, emphasizing topics such as perception, cognition, learning, memory, and emotion. Students will gain hands-on experience in constructing hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, and applying statistical techniques to interpret results. Ethical considerations, experimental controls, and the critical evaluation of scientific literature are also highlighted to develop rigorous scientific inquiry skills essential for advanced study and research in psychology.
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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) A car driver is making a turn.He is likely to think an approaching school bus is farther away than it is.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Agnosia is a deficit in ______ due to brain damage.
A)memory
B)perception
C)a balance
D)a sensation
Answer: B
Q3) Transduction is the process of ______.
A)having a visual experience
B)having an auditory experience
C)converting physical energy into a neural signal
D)converting a neural signal into physical energy
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) The two-point touch threshold is the minimum distance at which two touches are perceived as two touches and not one.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Professor Everdine is interested in devising a scale to examine people's perception of saltiness.She asks participants to rate solutions with various amounts of salt dissolved in them on a scale from 0 (not salty at all) to 100 (extremely salty).This method is known as ______.
A)limit testing
B)magnitude estimation
C)signal detection
D)threshold evaluation
Answer: B
Q3) A Snellen chart is used as an initial screening for glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
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Q1) The colored part of the eye, really a muscle that controls the amount of light entering through the pupil, is known as the ______.
A)iris
B)pupil
C)sclera
D)cornea
Answer: A
Q2) Which term names the fovea and its surrounding area?
A)foveal junction
B)anterior chamber
C)macula
D)photon
Answer: C
Q3) A single particle of light is known as ______.
A)an electromagnetic particle
B)a solenoid
C)an emanation crown
D)a photon
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
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Q1) The koniocellular layers of the LGN receive input from ______ retinal ganglion cells.
A)bistratified
B)parasol
C)midget
D)giant
Q2) V1 is a precise map of the retina.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Neurons that respond to stimuli that end within the cell's receptive field are known as ______ cells.
A)simple
B)complex
C)terminal
D)end-stopped
Q4) Which pathway is associated with detecting motion?
A)magnocellular
B)parvocellular
C)koniocellular
D)ochlearcellular
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Chapter 5: Object Perception
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Q1) Looser and Wheatley (2010) compared the responses of human brains to real faces and doll faces.What did they find?
A)The FFA initially responded to both real and doll faces.
B)The FFA did not respond to the doll faces.
C)The FFA responded similarly to both stimuli.
D)The doll faces caused an exaggerated response in the FFA.
Q2) Based on what you have learned about object perception, which of the following would have the greatest effect on the safety of a self-driving car?
A)being able to recognize a human face from any angle
B)being able to distinguish between the driver and other people
C)being able to distinguish between a squirrel and a vehicle
D)being able to recognize a windshield as part of a car
Q3) You look at a bowl of fruit.You perceive that there are four apples, five oranges, three bananas, and two pears.This observation is a result of which process?
A)grouping
B)recognition
C)segregation
D)representation
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Chapter 6: Color Perception
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Q1) To be purple an object must ______.
A)absorb light in the green part of the visual spectrum but reflect light in the red and blue portions of the visual spectrum
B)absorb all light from the visual spectrum except for the light of the shortest visible wavelengths, which are violet
C)reflect purple light in the purple range of the visual spectrum
D)be created artificially by means of additive color mixing as there are no natural purples
Q2) What theory proposes that all colors on the color circle can be represented by the following pairs of opposing mechanisms: blue-yellow, red-green, and black-white?
A)opponent-process theory of color vision
B)competitive theory of color vision
C)Hering-Osbourne theory of color vision
D)trichromatic theory of color vision
Q3) Spectral reflectance is the ratio of light reflected by an object at each wavelength.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of size constancy?
A)Even though Jake sees tiny Yuna on the horizon, he knows that she is about 5'8" tall.
B)Looking at Yuna from a distance, Jakes sees her as the same height as a nearby tree.
C)As Jake reads a book at arm's length, he sees Yuna as larger than the book.
D)As Jake sees Yuna without context clues, he has difficulty estimating her height.
Q2) When a person is visually fixated on a particular object, items beyond that object will have ______.
A)crossed disparity
B)uncrossed disparity
C)vertigo
D)image enhancement
Q3) Explain diplopia and give an example.
Q4) Explain the difference between size-distance invariance and size constancy.Give an example for each.
Q5) What causes the moon illusion?
Q6) What is the difference between motion parallax and optic flow?
Q7) Explain how vergence relates to the distance of objects.
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Chapter 8: Movement and Action
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Q1) The anterior intraparietal region is associated with what function?
A)planning and control of foot movements
B)controlling eye movements
C)grasping actions of the hands
D)turning the head side to side
Q2) Describe how motion-sensitive neurons account for speed and direction.
Q3) In Newsome and Paré's (1988) experiment, 100% condition, all the dots were moving in the same condition.In the 50% condition, half the dots were moving in a consistent direction.In the 20% condition, only one fifth of the dots were moving in a consistent direction.They found that ______.
A)MT neurons could detect motion only in the 100% condition
B)MT neurons integrate across any number of local detectors to infer the general pattern of motion in the display
C)MT neurons actually responded more strongly to the 20% condition than they did to the 100% condition
D)because the MT neurons had already been lesioned, Newsome and Paré could not make a conclusion about MT function
Q4) Explain the two types of apparent motion.Give an example for each type.
Q5) What is an affordance? Give three examples.
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Chapter 9: Visual Attention
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Q1) When a particularly odd image or striking sound captures our attention, that image or sound is said to have ______.
A)stimulus salience
B)covert attentional appeal
C)change blindness resistance
D)attention shift capacity
Q2) The process of attending to multiple sources of information is known as ______.
A)divided attention
B)selective attention
C)elective attention
D)source monitoring
Q3) What is the name of the theory stipulating that some features can be processed in parallel and quickly prior to using attentional resources, whereas other visual characteristics require us to use attention and are done serially and therefore less quickly?
A)visual attention model
B)the spotlight model of attention
C)the selective model of features
D)feature integration theory
Q4) How does binocular rivalry demonstrate the top-down processing of perception?
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Chapter 10: The Auditory System
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Q1) Conductive hearing loss is permanent hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea or auditory nerve.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lance is a 45-year-old police officer who has spent part of his career as a firearms instructor.Lance is at high risk for ______.
A)damaging his Eustachian tube
B)developing sensorineural hearing loss
C)damaging his ossicles
D)developing otosclerosis
Q3) Cheryl has moderate to severe hearing loss.Her hearing loss is particularly acute at frequencies from 1000 to 3000 Hz.What course of action do you recommend for her?
A)She should have surgery to install cochlear implants.
B)She should just ask people to talk louder.
C)She should have an artificial tympanic membrane installed.
D)She should get digital hearing aids.
Q4) How do the parts of a cochlear implant work together.
Q5) Compare and contrast sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus.
Q6) Describe the parts of the middle ear and how they work together.
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Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes the pathway for auditory information?
A)The medial geniculate nucleus projects to the inferior colliculus, which projects to the auditory cortex.
B)The inferior colliculus projects to the medial geniculate nucleus, which projects to the auditory cortex.
C)The auditory cortex projects to the inferior colliculus, which projects to the medial geniculate nucleus.
D)The auditory cortex projects to the medial geniculate nucleus, which projects to the inferior colliculus.
Q2) Explain spatial segregation and give an example.
Q3) Neurons within a region in the brain are organized according to the different frequencies to which they respond.This is known as ______.
A)frequency adjustment
B)tonotopic organization
C)inverse frequency tuning
D)wavelength priority
Q4) Explain spectral segregation and give an example.
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Chapter 12: Speech Perception
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Q1) The point along the vocal tract at which the airflow is constricted, such as the lips, teeth, and structures along the back of the mouth, is known as ______.
A)a formant
B)the place of articulation
C)the uvulac tract
D)a voicing constant
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) Select all that apply.Which of the following is important in the formation of consonants?
A)voicing
B)manner of articulation
C)vocal fry
D)place of articulation
Q4) Explain the differences in how we produce vowels, voiced consonants, and unvoiced consonants.
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Chapter 13: Music Perception
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Q1) A flute and a piano are both playing a note with a fundamental frequency of 1138
Hz.Why do the two instruments sound different?
A)The two notes differ slightly in perceived frequency.
B)The dynamics differ between the two instruments.
C)Each instrument has a different pattern of higher harmonics.
D)Pianos play an octave lower than other instruments.
Q2) How fast music is played, the spaced pulses within it, and the temporal pattern of sound across time are all aspects of ______.
A)dynamics
B)articulation
C)rhythm
D)syncopation
Q3) Joe has begun to train rigorously in music.If researchers take a scan of his brain before he started training, and take another one after he trains for a couple of years, they will probably find ______.
A)little or no change in how Joe's brain processes music
B)increased usage of Joe's left hemisphere in musical perception
C)decreased activity in Joe's right temporal lobe
D)increased separation between areas of Joe's brain used for speech and music
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Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
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Q1) Dirk is in the woods on a dark night without a flashlight.He needs to use a specific tool mixed in with a dozen other items in his backpack.Explain how haptic perception can apply to Dirk's situation.
Q2) Larry steps on a hornet and is stung in the foot.He is in a great deal of pain, so he begins crying and becomes very upset.Larry's unpleasant emotional experience due to pain is associated with a portion of the prefrontal lobe of the brain known as the
A)posterior parietal area
B)substantia gelatinosa
C)dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex
D)anterior cingulate cortex
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) Jana is working on her car in the garage because it is cold outside.She begins to feel sleepy and nods off.Just then her father comes into the garage and tells her she forgot to shut off the kerosene heater, and she is lucky to be alive.She exclaims that she did not smell any fumes.Briefly explain how her olfactory system let her down in this instance.
Q2) The area in the anterior portion of the temporal lobe that receives input from the olfactory bulb and is often considered to be the primary olfactory cortex is the ______.
A)cerebral cortex
B)entorhinal cortex
C)parietal cortex
D)piriform cortex
Q3) Ageusia is the hallucinatory perception of odors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Basal cells are the receptor cells located in the olfactory epithelium that detect specific chemicals in the air and transduce them into a neural signal.
A)True
B)False
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