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Psych Quiz #4

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Question 1
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Any activity in the environment that changes how an organism responds is called a stimulus response

Question 2
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Perception Sets are past experiences and other kinds of information that change our perceptions about something.

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Absolute threshold of sensation is the measurement that occurs when we cannot detect stimulus 50% of the time.

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The smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus a person can detect at least 50% of the time is known as the Just Noticeable Difference

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You're driving to work when you clearly hear Taylor Swift sing about "Starbucks lovers". Which term best explains this phenomenon?

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Which of the following theories explains that the human eye can detect three colors?

Question 7
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Which of the following statements best explains why people with red-green color deficiency can perceive the color yellow?

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The type of deafness that can be helped with a hearing aid is

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Gate Control Theory explains that we can use non-pain perceptions to shift the focus away from pain perceptions. This helps explain why massages help with pain sensation.

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The definition of Perception is "taking information from the senses and organizing it into meaningful experiences",

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Gestalt Psychology considers human behavior and the mind as separate from each other

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Figure-ground Perception is defined as the ability to discriminate between figure (stimulus) and background (competing stimulus).

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Perceptual Sets are based on prior experience and beliefs

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Current research demonstrates that subliminal messages are an effective way of "incepting" an idea into our heads.

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The gustatory system operates independently and is entirely unaffected by the function of the olfactory system.

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Transduction is a process where a sensory receptor converts a stimulus into a neural signal.

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Transduction only occurs in the visual system.

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Olfaction is the scientific term for the sense of touch.

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How many basic taste types are identified in gustation?

Question 20
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What is not one of the basic taste types?

Question 21
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What is the primary function of the vestibular system?

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Which part of the brain receives signals from the vestibular system?

Question 23
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Which of the following colors are detected by our cones?

Question 24
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Which part of the eye is responsible for color perception?

Question 25
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Which lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for visual processing?

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