Psych 201- Cognitive Flashcards
Which of the following is true of smell perception?- more than one can be true
a. it is effective in detecting all dangerous substances and gases
b. adaption to smells can last up to 2 weeks after long term exposure
c. Odorants are dissolves and taken by the olfactory receptor to the odorant binding proteins.
d. A newborn can recognise smells from food their mothers ingested during pregnancy
e. Stress stimuli can alter how you smell to others.
b, d, and e
Which of the following is true of pheromones?
a. pheromones are used for special communication that can signal fertility
b. pheromones have minimal effect on members of the same biological sex
c. odourtype are determined by our immune system (human leucocyte antigen)
d. pheromones can affect the level of testosterone in men
a, c, and d
Which of the following is/are true of taste?
a. infants can only discriminate taste 3 days after birth
b. Umami can be described as brothy and can signal protein content
c. Our saliva is salty from the KCl content
d. Specificity encoding theory refers to taste being a result of how different taste cells activate specifically as a group
b. Umami can be described as brothy and can signal protein content
Which of the following is true of flavour
a. flavour is processed in different types of papilae including Filiform
b. Taste buds are only located on the tongue
c. The OFC processed the reward component of foods not their sensory quality
d. stressors can attenuate perception of sweetness and umami
c, and d
Which of the following can affect taste?
a. your body mass index
b. your age
c. whether you have been exposed to pathogens
d. appearance of the food
e. texture of the food
f. all of the above
f. all of the above
Which of the following statements are true of pain?
a. physical contact can alleviate pain
b. The phantom limb is evidence pain signals are sent directly from the skin to the brain
c. pain tolerance can be increased by pain related cues and decreased by pleasant images
d. the sensory-discriminative dimension to pain refers to its intensity and unpleasantness
a. physical contact can alleviate pain
Which of the following is true of social pain?
a. it can trigger activity in the areas of the brain associated with physical sensory pain
b. it can trigger activity in the areas of the brain associated with physical affective pain
c. it can result from social inclusion
d. it can result from unsympathetic words and comments.
b and d
What describes bottom up processing in visual perception?
a. a process where the brain constructs perception based on incoming visual information
b. interpretation of sensory data based on prior knowledge and expectations
c. a process where expectations guide perception, overriding sensory data
d. recognition of objects based on memory recall
a. a process where the brain constructs perception based on incoming visual information
Which of the following is an example of a Gestalt principle of visual perception?
a. The principle of selective attention, which prioritises certain stimuli over others
b. The principle of proximity, where objects that are close together are perceived as part of the same group
c. The principle of neural plasticity, which refers to the brain’s ability to rewire itself
d. The principle of cognitive load, which relates to how much information can be processed at once
b. The principle of proximity, where objects that are close together are perceived as part of the same group
In the context of visual processing, global processing refers to…
a. Focusing on small, detailed parts of an image
b. Perceiving the overall structure or configuration of a scene
c. Identifying individual objects in isolation
d. processing visual features like colour and texture
b. Perceiving the overall structure or configuration of a scene
What does Ariely’s study tell us about ensemble coding?
a. it allows for faster recognition of individual objects in a scene
b. it enables the visual system to efficiently extract summary statistics, like the average size of objects without encoding each object individually.
c. It improves memory for fine details of individual items within the ensemble
d. it eliminates the need for attentional processing when viewing complex scenes
b. it enables the visual system to efficiently extract summary statistics, like the average size of objects without encoding each object individually.
In a Barlow Levick direction sensitive model, which of the following would increase its sensitivity to slower movements?
a. reducing the temporal sensitivity of the detectors
b. increasing the receptive field size of the detectors
c. increasing the time delay between 2 detectors
d. enhancing the response to the faster moving stimuli
c. increasing the time delay between 2 detectors
What helps to maintain visual stability during REM?
Corollary discharge
Saccadic suppression
Which of the following is not true of motion parallax?
a. motion parallax is binocular cue
b. motion parallax works best when objects are near
c. objects that are furthest move slowest across your field of vision
d. motion parallax is only useful when viewing 3D scenes
a. motion parallax is a binocular cue
According to Broadbent’s filter theory, which of the following features could be acted on by the filtration processes?
- The sound of the voice used to speak a word
- The colour of a shape
