Chapter 6 Mastery Quiz
1. If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates:

A. sensory adaptation.
B. accommodation.
C. Weber's law.
D. parallel processing.
2. Signal detection theory predicts that a person's ability to detect weak signals is partly dependent on the person's:

A. expectation, behavior, and attitude.
B. attitude, motivation, and behavior.
C. experience, motivation, and alertness.
D. behavior, perception, and alertness.
3. Suzanna was in a horrible car accident, resulting in damage to her temporal lobe. She can sense facial features, but cannot recognize the face itself. Thus, shown a picture of a familiar face her autonomic nervous system might react, but she has no clue as to who the person is. This condition is known as:

A. prosopagnosia.
B. dysthymia.
C. facial amnesia.
D. bottom-up processing.
4. Multiple ____________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ____________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

A. hair cells; basilar membrane
B. basilar membranes; hair cell
C. rods; cone
D. cones; rod
5. In terms of our sensory experience of light, wavelength is to ______________ as wave intensity is to ______________.

A. accommodation; retina
B. ultraviolet rays; gamma rays
C. transduction; brightness
D. hue; brightness
6. Which of the following activities most clearly takes place in the rods and cones?

A. sensory transduction
B. top-down processing
C. sensory interaction
D. accommodation
7. Hermann von Helmholtz's said that we hear different pitches because different sound waves trigger activity at different places along the cochlea's basilar membrane. His theory is called:

A. pitch theory.
B. auditory theory.
C. frequency theory.
D. place theory.
8. The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time is known as:

A. location.
B. pitch.
C. frequency.
D. loudness.
9. The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to the:

A. eardrum.
B. semicircular canal.
C. cochlea.
D. vestibular sacs.
10. Tinnitus is a(n) ____________ phantom limb sensation.

A. auditory
B. taste
C. touch
D. visual
11. You are playing "Ring Around the Rosie" with your little cousins and are spinning around and around. When you stop you still feel as though you are spinning because your ________________ and _______________ haven't returned to their neutral state.

A. sensory system; semicircular canals
B. vestibular motion; kinesthetic receptors
C. semicircular canals; kinesthetic receptors
D. semicircular canals; sensory system
12. You are a participant in Dr. Delbar's the rubber-hand illusion study. He has you watch a fake rubber hand, while your own hand is hidden from view. When Dr. Delbar touches your real hand and the fake simultaneously, you:

A. do not respond to the rubber hand being touched.
B. cannot feel your own hand being touched.
C. look away from the rubber hand.
D. perceive the rubber hand as your own, sensing that it is being touched.
13. Relative luminance most clearly contributes to:

A. lightness constancy.
B. the Moon illusion.
C. change blindness.
D. the phi phenomenon.
14. You read about an accident at a rail-crossing and wondered about the cause. Perhaps it was caused by ________________ (a monocular clue concerning parallel lines), which might have led the car's driver to overestimate the distance of the train.

A. linear perspective
B. relative clarity
C. relative height
D. relative motion
15. According to the Gestalt psychologists, we tend to group together figures that are similar to each other. This is called the principle of:

A. connectedness.
B. proximity.
C. similarity.
D. continuity.
16. You are interested in designing machines that work with people. You want to bring together the interaction of people and machines as one. You are seriously considering becoming a:

A. developmental psychologist.
B. personal factors psychologist.
C. human factors psychologist.
D. experimental psychologist.
17. Jay is 48 years old. He recently had his sight restored after 45 years of blindness. He could associate people with their distinct features (e.g., hair color), but could not recognize their faces. He was also not good at judging the size of objects as their distance from him changed. His case suggests that:

A. vision is partly an acquired sense.
B. vision can be restored completely, even if a person was blind from an early age.
C. normal development of vision does not involve experience or learning.
D. there is NO critical period for normal visual development.
18. Thanks to the efforts of __________________, ATM machines are more complex than VCRs but are easier to operate.

A. evolutionary psychologists
B. Gestalt psychologists
C. human factors psychologists
D. parapsychologists