PSYC-465 practice test
Exam 3:
Research Methods and Vision
Ch 6
1. Humans can see electromagnetic waves
of energy that have a length
of_________.
a. 40-90 nanometers
b. 380-760 nanometers
c. 1,000-4,000 nanometers
d. 260-380 nanometers
Ch 6
2. The psychological correlates of
wavelength and intensity are________,
respectively.
a. Color and brightness
b. Brightness and hue
c. Shape and color
d. Brightness and shape
Ch 6
3. The adjustment of pupil size in response
to changes in illumination represents a
compromise between________.
a. Size and position
b. Accommodation and disparity
c. Sensitivity and acuity
d. Color and shape
Ch 6
4. When rhodopsin is moved from the dark
to intense light,_________.
a. It absorbs light in the same range of
wavelengths as the photopic spectral
sensitivity curve
b. It becomes bleached
c. It becomes an intense red color
d. It increasese glutamate release
Ch 6
5. The photopic visual system is
characterized by_______.
a. A high degree of convergence onto
biopolar cells
b. Maximal sensitivity to light in the range of
500 nm
c. high visual acuity
d. High sensitivity
Ch 6
6. Off-center cells include __________.
a. Rods and cones
b. Retinal ganglion cells
c. Simple cortical cells
d. Both A and B
Ch 7
7. Prosopagnosia is ______.
a. An inability to recognize faces
b. May be a general inability to recognize
individual members of a class of visual stimuli
c. Due to damage to secondary visual cortex
d. Due to damage to the posterior parietal cortex
e. Both A and B
f. All except D
Ch 5
8. Which of the following is an enhanced
contrast X-ray technique that is used to
reconstruct several horizontal sections of
the brain?
a. angiography
b. MRI
c. pneumoencephalography
d. PET
e. CAT
Ch 5
9. In many stereotaxic atlases of the rat
brain, one common reference point
is________.
a. cregma
b. alambda
c. bregma
d. the tip of the nose
Ch 5
10. Which of the following can be
determined by extracellular unit
recording?
a. the amplitude of EPSPs and IPSPs
b. the amplitude of APs
c. temporal summation
d. the rate of firing of a single neuron
Lecture
11. Which of the following is NOT true of the triple
dissociation lesion study described in class
_____________.
a. Compares performance on three tasks that are
identical except for the type of associative
learning required
b. is better than behavioral phenotyping in
controlling extraneous variables
c. Involved the amygdala, striatum and
hippocampus
d. was conducted with monkeys
e. None of the above (all are true)
Answers
1.b
2.a
3.c
4. a & b
5.c
6.d
7.f
8.e
9.c
10.e
11.e