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_____ is the neural activity triggered by a stimulus that activates a sensory receptor and results in sensory nerve impulses traveling the sensory nerve pathways to the brian.
A) Perception
B) Sensation
C) Habituation
D) Spatial orientation
E) proprioception
B) Sensation
Which of the following is true about exposure to excessive environmental noise?
A) Its effects can reversed
B) Its effects only occur in older adulthood
C) Its effects are only detrimental in industrial work settings
D) It can result in permanent hearing loss
D) It can result in permanent hearing loss
The current Perception and Action view is that which of the following systems are interrelated?
A) Motor and perceptual only
B) Perceptual and cognitive only
C) Motor and cognitive only
D) Motor, perceptual, and cognitive
D) Motor, perceptual, and cognitive
Title IX, which required equal opportunity for girls and women in sport, was passed in
A) 1958
B) 1964
C) 1972
D) 1983
C) 1972
Which type of constraint typically requires a longer time to change?
A) Task
B) Structural
C) Environmental
D) Functional
B) Structural
____ is a multistage process that takes place in the brain and includes selecting, processing, organizing, and integrating information received from the senses.
A) Perception
B) Sensation
C) Habituation
D) Spatial orientation
E) Proprioception
A) Perception
_____ perception is the type of intermodal perception that coordinates the properties of objects first seen and then felt.
A) Visual-auditory
B) Kinesthetic-visual
C) Visual-kinesthetic
D) Spatial-temporal
C) Visual-kinesthetic
Children rely on which of the following to maintain static balance?
A) Feedforward (anticipatory) postural adjustments
B) Visual cues
C) Proprioceptive feedback
D) B and C
E) A, B, and C
D) B and C
Which of the following is an example of a social or cultural environmental constraint?
A) Age
B) Race
C) Religion
D) B and C
D) B and C
On a day-to-day basis, which of the following type of constraints can be manipulated by educators?
A) Structural
B) Task
C) Environmental
D) B and C
E) A, B, and C
D) B and C
The acuity of infants’ vision is about ____ that of adults, and it reaches adult levels of activity by ____ years of age.
A) 10%; 5
B) 50%; 16
C) 5%; 21
D) 5%; 10
D) 5%; 10
Sensory input drives motor output:
A) True
B) False
A) True
In a classic 1963 study, in which Held and Hein permitted or restricted self-produced locomotion in kittens with the same visual experience, what was the conclusion?
A) Self-produced movement is unimportant to the judgment of depth.
B) Self-produced movement is important for movement behaviors.
C) Self-produced movement is not necessary to develop blinking when an object approaches.
B) Self-produced movement is important for movement behaviors.
The ____________ process is that by which one learns a social role within groups with certain values, morals, and rules.
A) Environmental
B) Cultural
C) Stereotypical
D) Socialization
E) Religious
D) Socialization
The distance between the pitching mound and home plate is an example of what type of constraint?
A) Task
B) Structural
C) Environmental
D) A and B
A) Task
What type of perception allows us to find embedded objects in a background?
A) Whole and part
B) Depth
C) Figure and ground
C) Figure and ground
Infants cannot distinguish a sound from ambient noise:
A) True
B) False
B) False
Which of the following is a characteristic of older adults compared young adults when balancing?
A) The lower leg muscles respond first to the perturbation to balance.
B) More time passes before the leg muscles respond to a perturbation to balance.
C) The strength of muscle response is more consistent.
D) None of the above
B) More time passes before the leg muscles respond to a perturbation to balance.
____________ occurs when a parent or significant other encourages activities that are deemed gender appropriate.
A) Gender neutrality
B) Gender roles
C) Gender expectations
D) Gender references
E) Gender typing
E) Gender typing
Body scaling is a method that can be used to manipulate which of the following constraints?
A) Task
B) Structural
C) Environmental
D) A and C
E) A, B, and C
D) A and C
Which of the following kinesthetic receptors play the major role in position and movement sense?
A) Muscle spindles
B) Joint receptors
C) Vestibular semicircular canals
D) B and C
A) Muscle spindles
Hand dominance is established around age four:
A) True
B) False
A) True
What term refers to the actions or behaviors for or permitted to an individual by the places, objects, and events in and of an environment?
A) Spatial organization
B) Body scaling
C) Locomotor experience
D) Affordances
E) Vestibular perturbations
D) Affordances
_______________ characteristics are culturally based and relate to cultural similarities that connect groups.
A) Racial
B) Ethnic
C) Socioeconomic
D) Gender
E) Age
B) Ethnic
Constraints _________ interact with one another to influence movement.
A) Never
B) Rarely
C) Sometimes
D) Often
E) Always
E) Always