Hearing
______1____ corresponds to the frequency of a sound wave, while ____2____ corresponds to the amplitude/height of a sound wave.
1.Pitch (Hz)
2.Loudness/amplitude (dB)
Last week after class Alan met someone named Jessica. Today, Alan sees her again. He recognizes her, but frustratingly, cannot remember her name, only that it begins with the letter “J.” Alan’s experience (of not being able to remember the name he had learned) represents a failure related to which memory process?
c. Encoding
b. Retrieval
c. Attention
d. Rehearsal
b. Retrieval
What is the name of the individual that represents a specific case study where we learn that there is a critical period in language acquisition?
Answer: Genie
Colorblindness in humans is caused by the absence of ______ in the eye
One of the 3 cones
Which of the following is NOT a Gestalt principle of grouping
a.Proximity
b.Closure
c.Interposition
d.Similarity
c.Interposition
__________ is the conversion of a stimulus to an electrical signal.
Transduction
Your friend Alex asks you to explain retrograde amnesia to him. Based on what you learned in your PSYC 100 class, you tell him that a person with retrograde amnesia, experiences a loss of ____________ memory, but retains their normal ____________ memory.
a. Past semantic, episodic
b. Past episodic, semantic
c. Past explicit, implicit
d. New episodic, implicit
b. Past episodic, semantic
In Piaget’s preoperational development stage (2-7 years old), what is the obstacle that must be overcome by the child to advance to the next stage according to Dr. Vanderbilt?
a. Ability to think beyond own personal experience
b.Object permanence
c.Centration
d.assimilation
c. Centration
What do we call the detection of physical energy by our sense organs?
Sensation
Feature integration theory suggests that we detect different aspect of an object (e.g. color, shape, etc.) _____, and then integrate the separate features ____ to recognize the object
a.All at once: all at once
b.One at a time: one at a time
c.One at a time: all at once
d.All at once, one at a time
d.All at once, one at a time
Which of the following is not a part of the middle ear:
a. Eardrum
b. Ossicles
c. Stirrup
d. Cochlea
d. Cochlea
Hearing two friends report their birthdays, one right after the other, Harry was only able to remember the 2nd birthday he was told. _________________ most likely prevented him from remembering all the information he heard.
a. retroactive interference
b. proactive interference
c. the cocktail party effect
d. maintenance rehearsal
a. retroactive interference
What term best describes the rules for how words should be put together?
a. Pragmatics
b. Phoneme
c. Morpheme
d. Syntax
d. Syntax
What type of processing is driven primarily by sensory output?
Bottom-up processing
As you look down a long, deserted road, the edges of the road seem to converge on one another, almost touching at their furthest point in the distance. Which monocular depth cue describe this phenomenon
a.Linear perspective
b.interposition
c.Texture gradient
d.Motion parallax
a.Linear perspective
Transduction of auditory information occurs in the __________.
Answer: Cochlea
The finding that people have better memory for the words at the beginning of a list is known as the _______ effect and occurs because the words from the beginning of list are stored in _______ memory.
a. Primacy, long-term
b. Primacy, short-term
c. Recency, long-term
d. Recency, short-term
a. Primacy, long-term
In terms of schema development, what is it called when a scheme is created, changed, or expanded in response to a new object?
Answer: accomodation
Is this top-down or bottom-up processing: You are sitting in a cafe, and you smell something sweet. Without seeing it, you immediately think of fresh cookies.
Top-down (your past experiences and expectations(like recognizing the sweet smell as fresh cookies) influence your interpretation of the sensory information (the smell). You are using prior knowledge to make an assumption about what the scent is, even though you haven’t directly seen the cookies.
Your brain use certain binocular cues to help create your visual perception of depth. Which binocular depth cue is based on your brain’s integration of the two sightly different views seen by each eye?
Binocular convergence
b.Binocular disparity
c.Interposition
d.Motion parallax
b.Binocular disparity
Which theory of pitch perception states that different locations along the basilar membrane are activated by different sound frequencies, allowing us to hear different pitches?
a. Volley theory
b. Frequency theory
c. Place theory
c. Place theory
The cocktail party effect shows that:
a. we can pay full attention to multiple conversations in a noisy room at once.
b. the more cocktails we have, the worse we are at remembering the party.
c. none of the information in non-attended conversations is processed.
d. words from distant conversations make it into echoic memory and can draw our attention.
d. words from distant conversations make it into echoic memory and can draw our attention.
What are the names of all of Piaget’s development stages?
Double points for the group that can give me the age groups associated with each stage
sensorimotor (0-2)
preoperational (2-7)
concrete operational (7-12)
formal operational (12+)
You walk into a room that smells strongly of perfume, but after a few minutes, you barely notice the smell anymore. What concept explains why the smell seems to fade?
Sensory adaptation
Hearing two friends report their birthday, one right after the other, Harry was only able to remember the 2nd birthday he was told. ___ most likely prevented him from remembering all the information he heard
a.Retroactive interference
b.Proactive interference
c.The cocktail party effect
d.Maintenance rehearsal
a.Retroactive interference