Sensation & Perception
Neuroscience & Behavior
Research Methods
Potpourri
Consciousness
100
Converting signals from the environment to signals in the brain is called what?
What is transduction
100
Which part of the neuron receives information from other neurons and relays it to the cell body?
What is the dendrite
100
This variable is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
100
He was the first to take a scientific approach to psychology
Who was William James
100
Alcohol, like other ________, increases the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA.
What are depressants.
200
The distribution of rods and cones varies across the surface of the retina. Which of the following is accurate?
Cones are concentrated in the fovea and are less present in areas as they get further from the fovea
200
How do we measure action potentials?
What is the rate of firing
200
This is a falsifiable prediction that adheres to parsimony.
What is a hypothesis
200
The gap between one neuron's axon and a dendrite or cell body of another neuron is part of this.
What is the synapse.
200
This is a sleep disorder associated with an interruption in breathing for short periods of time.
What is sleep apnea.
300
What is the order of things that occur as light enters the eye to be transduced?
Light passes through the cornea, to the pupil (iris surrounding), to the lens (accommodation), and to the retina (phototransduction)
300
True or False: The information from the left eye is processed in the right hemisphere of the brain and the information from the right eye is processed in the left hemisphere of the brain.
What is false.
300
In a normal distribution, the peak corresponds to this/these measurements.
What is the mean, median, and mode.
300
A bathroom scale always weighs 150 pounds no matter who steps on it. As a measure of weight, the scale lacks....
What is validity.
300
This theory that suggests dreams are the mind's attempts to make sense of random neural activity occurring in the brain during sleep.
What is the activation synthesis model.
400
There are two distinct pathways from the occipital cortex to other distinct visual areas of the brain, the dorsal and the ventral stream. Which of the following describes the purposes of each stream?
Dorsal pathway - where/how; Ventral pathway - what
400
This neuroimaging technique allows a person to see which parts of the brain are active during a given task and does not require a radioactive tracer
What is fMRI
400
This is what kind of relationship? (positive, negative, curvilinear, 0)
What is a positive relationship.
400
In the number sequence 3 6 1 1 9, which numbers represent the median, the mode, and the mean, respectively?
What are 3, 1, and 4.
400
Studies using the experience sampling technique suggest that our consciousness tends to be dominated by what?
What are the sensory inputs of our immediate environment.
500
College students talking on cell phones while walking through campus were much less likely to notice a clown ride past them on a unicycle than students not talking on cell phones, illustrating this.
What is inattentional blindness.
500
When walking home alone late one night, you are startled by a moving shadow that you glimpse out of the corner of your eye. This division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes your body's defenses.
What is the sympathetic division.
500
Association, temporal precedence, and nonspuriousness are the criteria for this kind of relationship.
What is causal.
500
The fact that we see this as five rings (and not 9 weird shapes) illustrates what principle of Gestalt Psychology?
What is the law of good figure.
500
You have a dream that you are naked in public. Freud would suggest that there is more to the dream than its literal meaning, and that dreaming of being naked is this kind of content.
What is the manifest content.