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Chapter 4 - part 7: Our Other Senses

Question 1 of 30

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Which sense is important for perception of the positions of the various parts of the body?

Select one of the following:

  • homeostatic

  • vestibular

  • kinesthetic

  • kinetic

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

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What does your kinesthetic system allow you to perceive?

Select one of the following:

  • your sense of forward acceleration

  • your body movement, when something else is moving you

  • the relative position of your body parts

  • the location of your body in space

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

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Where would you find receptors for the kinesthetic sense?

Select one of the following:

  • semicircular canals

  • basilar membrane

  • cochlea

  • joints and muscles

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

1

A police officer asks Stanley to close his eyes and touch the tip of his nose, using first his right index finger and then his left index finger. What does Stanley rely on to complete this test of coordination?

Select one of the following:

  • sensory accommodation

  • reticular sense

  • vestibular sense

  • kinesthetic sense

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

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Where are the receptors for the vestibular sense?

Select one of the following:

  • muscles

  • inner ear

  • joints

  • skin

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

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Which of the following parts of the ear has a role in maintaining balance?

Select one of the following:

  • semicircular canals

  • basilar membrane

  • ossicles

  • cochlea

Explanation

Question 7 of 30

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Loreen has a bad case of vertigo. She feels like the room is spinning, and she has trouble keeping her balance. Which of the following is most likely to be the location of excess neural activity in Loreen’s case?

Select one of the following:

  • olfactory bulb

  • parvocellular system

  • periacqueductal gray

  • semicircular canals

Explanation

Question 8 of 30

1

You have a severe ear infection. Which of the following is a potential side effect?

Select one of the following:

  • enhanced sense of smell

  • loss of balance

  • blurred vision

  • loss of ability to taste food

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

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Our construction of perceptual hypotheses illustrates which of your text’s unifying themes?

Select one of the following:

  • Psychology is empirical.

  • Behaviour is determined by multiple causes.

  • Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.

  • People’s experience of the world is highly subjective.

Explanation

Question 10 of 30

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Which of your text’s unifying themes is illustrated by the fact that many people are reluctant to try novel foods from other cultures?

Select one of the following:

  • People’s experience of the world is highly subjective.

  • Psychology is empirical.

  • Behaviour is shaped by our cultural heritage.

  • Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

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What depth cues must a painter employ in order to create the illusion of three-dimensional reality?

Select one of the following:

  • pictorial

  • convergence

  • binocular

  • pointillism

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

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Which type of artists were more concerned with interpreting a viewer’s fleeting perception of reality than with recreating the photographic “reality” of a scene?

Select one of the following:

  • French Impressionists

  • realists

  • medievalists

  • cubists

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

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Which mechanism does the impressionist technique of pointillism rely on?

Select one of the following:

  • subtractive colour mixing

  • feature analysis

  • binocular disparity as a cue for depth

  • additive colour mixing

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

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Which school of painting reduces reality to combinations of geometric forms laid out in a flat space?

Select one of the following:

  • cubism

  • surrealism

  • Impressionism

  • pointillism

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

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Which organizational principles are evident in the paintings of Cubists?

Select one of the following:

  • Gestalt

  • accommodation

  • functionalist

  • neurological

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

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Which theorist’s influence is reflected in the surrealists’ exploration of the world of dreams and fantasy?

Select one of the following:

  • Ernst Weber

  • David Hubel

  • Sigmund Freud

  • Gustav Fechner

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

1

What are M. C. Escher’s paintings, which often include impossible staircases and other structures, viewed as
examples of?

Select one of the following:

  • perceptual ambiguity

  • pointillism

  • cubism

  • Gestalt continuity

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

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Victor Vasarely’s approach is known as Kinetic Art. How does he use optical illusions in his work?

Select one of the following:

  • He makes it seem as if there are three-dimensional images popping out of a background of arbitrary
    features.

  • He hides images of nudes within advertising images.

  • He makes it appear as if geometric shapes are moving or changing shape.

  • He creates a complex image from tiny points of paint or charcoal.

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

1

Belgian artist René Magritte used images of paintings on easels (within his paintings) that appeared to continue
beyond the borders of the canvas. What point was he trying to make?

Select one of the following:

  • By making his images look ridiculous, he challenged the viewer to react against surrealist trends in art.

  • He used visual illusions to make political statements about the futility of democracy.

  • There is no line between the “real world” and the illusory world, or that everything is an illusion.

  • He created impossible figures, like Escher did, in order to demonstrate that it was impossible to separate
    art from the artist.

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

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What does the door-in-the-face technique involve?

Select one of the following:

  • Making a long series of very small requests, until the target stops agreeing.

  • Concealing some of the costs associated with a request until after the request has been accepted.

  • Making a very large request that is likely to be turned down to increase the chances that people will agree
    to a smaller request later.

  • Adding incentives to a request that has been turned down until people finally agree to go along with the
    initial request.

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

1

Last year Fiona had a yard sale. She marked the prices of items very reasonably, and she refused to reduce
them when people tried to negotiate. This year she had another yard sale, but this time she marked the prices of
items quite high, and then reduced them by 50 percent or more when people asked to negotiate. Fiona was
surprised to find that she made much more money this year. Which of the following may have led people to
purchase a lot from Fiona’s sale this year?

Select one of the following:

  • contrast effects

  • absolute thresholds

  • sensory adaptation

  • subliminal comparitors

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

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Roberta and Phil have been arrested for vandalism at their school. Given what we know about contrast effects,
what should their defence attorney emphasize in order to get a lighter sentence for Roberta and Phil?

Select one of the following:

  • The other students involved in the incident did much more damage than her clients did.

  • Her clients are both active in a number of extracurricular activities at their school.

  • This is the first offence.

  • Both clients are good students who always score at the top of their class.

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

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Darcy (for next 5 questions)
Darcy is studying at the kitchen table. Her brothers are watching the hockey game in the living room. When
Darcy first sat down to study, the noise of the game was distracting, but now she doesn’t really notice it at all. As
she reads through her notes, Darcy also doesn’t seem to notice all the little spelling errors she made when she
was writing them down in class. Instead, she reads the words and sentences clearly and is able to focus on the
concepts and examples rather than her mistakes. After a while, Darcy reaches out and grabs her water glass and
takes a drink. Just then, her brothers started yelling when their team scores. Startled, Darcy dropped the glass
onto her baby toe, which sends pain shooting up her leg. Although Darcy is momentarily distracted, she goes
back to her books and is focused on her studies again within about 20 minutes.
Which process allows Darcy to not be distracted by the hockey game?

Select one of the following:

  • Gestalt continuation

  • neural fatigue

  • sensory adaptation

  • selective attention

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

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Which perceptual process allows Darcy to read her notes without noticing small errors?

Select one of the following:

  • linguistic adaptation

  • bottom-up processing

  • top-down processing

  • sensory adaptation

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

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Which of the following brain areas is critical when Darcy reaches out for her water glass?

Select one of the following:

  • dorsal stream

  • primary visual cortex

  • periaqueductal gray

  • temporal lobe

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

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Which of the following increases led to Darcy being startled when Darcy’s brothers started yelling?

Select one of the following:

  • frequency of the sound

  • amplitude of the sound

  • purity of the sound

  • timbre of the sound

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

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Which type of nerve fibres were responsible for the immediate sensation when Darcy felt pain in her baby toe?

Select one of the following:

  • C fibres

  • A-delta fibres

  • ungated thalamic fibres

  • periaqueductal fibres

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

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Complete the following analogy: The visual cortex is to the auditory cortex as the occipital lobe is to the _____.

Select one of the following:

  • frontal lobe

  • sensory lobe

  • parietal lobe

  • temporal lobe

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

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You’ve been sitting on the couch for a while now; there is music playing in the background, and your cat has
fallen asleep with his head on your arm. You are daydreaming about your upcoming vacation, and you don’t
notice or attend to the sound of the music or the pressure of your cat’s very heavy head. What processes result
in these two types of loss of feeling?

Select one of the following:

  • endorphin-induced suppression of perception

  • sensory adaptation

  • sensory sensitization

  • perceptual dulling

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

1

Complete the following analogy: Hue is to pitch as brightness is to _____.

Select one of the following:

  • purity

  • loudness

  • retinal disparity

  • timbre

Explanation

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