Psychology 1 Final Exam Questions
1. What part of eye contains more than 130 million photoreceptors that traduces light into neural activity?
A. Iris
B. Retina
C. Pupil
D. Cornea
2. The pupil ________ under bright light and _______ in the dark.
A. Dilates; Constricts
B. Dilates; Dilates
C. Constricts; Constricts
D. Constricts; Dilates
3. Identify the cause(s) of glaucoma
A. Aqueous humor production too fast
B. High eye pressure
C. Blood vessel blockage
D. Eye vision Damage
E. B and D
F. A and C
G. All of the above
4. The hue is related to the ________, the brightness to the _________, and saturation to ________.
A. Intensity, wavelength, purity
B. Wavelength, purity, intensity
C. Wavelength, intensity, purity
D. Purity, wavelength, intensity
E. Purity, intensity, wavelength
5. What causes the negative afterimage?
A. It is caused by the adaption in retinal ganglion cells
B. It is caused by the adaption in photoreceptors
C. It is caused by the rebound effect in retinal ganglion cells
D. It is caused by the rebound effect in photoreceptors
E. It is caused by the rebound effect in bipolar cells
6. What are the 2 theories of frequency perception?
A. Frequency theory; Spatial theory
B. Place theory; Spatial theory
C. Temporal theory; Frequency theory
D. Place theory; Frequency theory
E. Temporal theory; Place theory
F. Temporal theory; Spatial theory
7. Where are the auditory hair cells located in the ear?
A. eardrum
B. pinna
C. cochlea
D. eustachian tube
8. You can manipulate people's response to signal detection through different 'pay-off'
conditions.
A. True
B. False
9. When you are nearsighted, images are focused _________ of the fovea.
A. behind
B. in front
C. in the middle
D. on top
10. What is the correct order light goes through to turn into neural activity?
A. photoreceptor, ganglion cell, bipolar cell
B. bipolar cell, photoreceptor, ganglion cell
C. ganglion cell, bipolar cell, photoreceptor
D. photoreceptor, bipolar cell, ganglion cell
11. How many qualities of taste are there?
A. 7
B. 4
C. 3
D. 5
12. What is it called when your ability to recognize objects is impaired?
A. Balint's syndrome
B. visual agnosia
C. prosopagnosia
D. schematic syndrome
13. Which one is NOT a Gestalt Law of Perceptual Organization?
A. Law of Proximity
B. Law of Distance
C. Law of Similarity
D. Law of Continuity
E. Law of Common Fate
14. When looking at a red apple, recognizing that it is an apple is perception.
A. True
B. False
15. Nobody specifically knows where memory is actually stored.
A. True
C. False
16. Which of the following are NOT ways to improve long-term memory?
A. mnemonics
B. method of loci
C. peg-word method
D. narrative stories and songs
E. all of these are ways to improve long-term memory
17. The process by which sensory info is converted into a form that can be used by the
brain’s memory system is called.
A. Storage
B. Retrieval
C. Encoding
D. Acquisition
18. When information is attended to it goes to __________ when information is
rehearsed it goes into _____________.
A. short term memory; long term memory
B. Sensory input; short term memory
C. Sensory memory; short term memory
D. Sensory memory; long term memory
19. Consists of memories that can be described verbally, and of which we are
consciously aware
A. Implicit memory
B. Explicit memory
C. Motor memory
D. Somotosensory memory
20. The process by which information in short-term memory is transferred to long-term
memory.
A. Retrieval
B. Requisition
C. Consolidation
D. Compilation
21. What is an example of sensation?
A. Recognizing a red apple
B. Toughing a red apple
C. seeing the color red
D. painting the color red
22. What is the term for the process by which the sensory organs convert energy from
the environmental event into neural activity?
A. Transduction
B. Sensory coding
C. Sensation
D. Perception
23. What is Psychophysics?
A. Smallest difference in a stimulus that a person can detect
B. A Computational theory of the detection of a stimuli and physical response
C. Studies the relationship between sensory input and sensation experience
D. Studies the relationship between physical stimuli and perceptual experience
24. If your backpack weights 5 lbs, and you add 1lb, you would notice that it got heavier.
But if your pack was 50 lbs, and you add 1lb, you wouldn’t notice the difference. This is
an example of?
A. Perception
B. Sensory coding
C. Just Noticeable Difference (JND)
D. Signal-detection theory
25. What is a possibility in judging the presence or absence of a stimulus?
A. Hit
B. Miss
C. False Alarm
D. Correct negative
E. All of the above
26. What is the function of the Cornea?
A. It has lens like properties and bends when light comes in the goes through the
pupil and the lens to bend the light even more.
B. It is just a hole
C. It creates the color of the eye
D. It is the jelly like substance that fills the eye
27. What is a problem associated with multiple sclerosis?
A. Difficulty hearing
B. Difficulty seeing
C. Difficulty smelling
D. Difficulty tasting
28. Are rods good at detecting color?
A. No, they are not good at detecting color
B. Yes, they are good at detecting color
C. No, but they are better at detecting motion
D. No, but they are better at detecting low light contrast
E. A, B, and D are correct
29. What system is the retina part of?
A. The peripheral nervous system
B. The somatosensory system
C. The central nervous system
D. Both a and c
30. What are saccades?
A. abrupt shifts in gaze from one point to another
B. shifty eyes
C. Wavelengths of incoming visual stimuli
D. Intensity of incoming stimuli
31. What are the auditory system odes for various aspects of sound?
A. Pitch
B. Loudness
C. Amplitude
D. Frequency
E. Both A and B
32. What allows the person or animal to detect the location of the sound in the
environment in which the physical aspects of sound hit the two cochlea?
A. Timing and sound
B. Sound and intensity
C. Timing and intensity
D. None of the above
33. Which one is NOT part of the five qualities of taste?
A. bitterness
B. Sourness
C. Sweetness
D. Saltiness
E. All of the above are correct
34. Up to how many odors can humans recognize?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1,000
D. 10,000
35. Where are sensory receptors located?
A. Internal organs
B. Bones
C. Joints
D. All of the above