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Cochlear implants can help certain forms of deafness produced by damage to the |
| | A) | bones of the middle ear |
| | B) | auditory canal. |
| | C) | hair cells. |
| | D) | cochlear fluid. |
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Which of the following structures is related to our sense of balance? |
| | A) | otoliths |
| | B) | cochlea |
| | C) | basilar membrane |
| | D) | stirrup |
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Most psychologists believe that there are just ______________ basic receptor cells for taste. |
| | A) | two |
| | B) | four |
| | C) | six |
| | D) | eight |
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The gate-control theory of pain suggests that |
| | A) | nerve receptors in the spinal cord lead to specific area of the brain related to pain. |
| | B) | pain perception is actually a combination of visual and auditory reception. |
| | C) | there are no areas in the brain specifically related to pain, just a combination of other sensitive areas. |
| | D) | pain is a touch reflex controlled by the spinal cord. |
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According to ______________, when we encounter a stimulus, our brain's perceptual processing system initially responds to its component parts. |
| | A) | opponent-process theory |
| | B) | place theory |
| | C) | feature analysis |
| | D) | top-down processing |
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Depth perception is due largely to the fact that |
| | A) | we have perceptual constancy. |
| | B) | we have two eyes. |
| | C) | motion parallax is universal. |
| | D) | binocular disparity does not occur in humans. |
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The change in position of the retinal image as the head swings from side to side is called |
| | A) | relative size. |
| | B) | binocular disparity. |
| | C) | linear perspective. |
| | D) | motion parallax. |
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The visual illusion known as the "devil's tuning fork" is |
| | A) | seen similarly by people of all cultures. |
| | B) | difficult for rural Africans to copy. |
| | C) | copied with great difficulty by Western people. |
| | D) | evidence for the universality of perception. |
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The weakest detectable physical stimulus is called the |
| | A) | just noticeable difference. |
| | B) | difference threshold. |
| | C) | sensory noise factor. |
| | D) | absolute threshold. |
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The ______________ is the dark hole in the center of the iris. |
| | A) | cornea |
| | B) | lens |
| | C) | pupil |
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An adjustment in the lens shape in order to keep images in sharp focus is called |
| | A) | lens-image inversion. |
| | B) | top-down processing. |
| | C) | accommodation. |
| | D) | optical adaptation. |
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The fact that hair cells at different sites on the basilar membrane are stimulated by their own preferred ranges of sound frequencies supports the ______________ theory of the brain. |
| | A) | frequency |
| | B) | otolith |
| | C) | place |
| | D) | gate-control |
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The overriding Gestalt principle is |
| | A) | completion. |
| | B) | complexity. |
| | C) | simplicity. |
| | D) | specificity. |
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When the sensory nervous system is sensitive to small differences, the just noticeable difference will be |
| | A) | small. |
| | B) | moderate. |
| | C) | impossible to specify. |
| | D) | large. |
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The proper sequence of structures that sound passes when it enters the ear is the following: |
| | A) | oval window, eardrum, stirrup, cochlea |
| | B) | cochlea, stirrup, eardrum, oval window |
| | C) | stirrup, eardrum, oval window, cochlea |
| | D) | eardrum, stirrup, oval window, cochlea |
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