Psychology Unit 3

Question 1

What is Subliminal Stimuli

Answer 1

Stimuli not detectable 50% of the time. Below absolute Threshold.

Question 2

What is inattentional blindness?

Answer 2

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Question 3

Change Blindness

Answer 3

Failing to notice changes in visual environment

Question 4

What is Bottom-Up processing?

Answer 4

Letting our senses alone determining our reaction to stimuli.

Question 5

What is Top-Down processing?

Answer 5

Letting past experiences, bias, or other opinions determining reaction to stimuli.

Question 6

What is transduction?

Answer 6

The process of converting a certain form of energy into neural impulses that our brain can interpret.

Question 7

Absolute Threshold

Answer 7

The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus.

Question 8

Difference Threshold

Answer 8

The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection.

Question 9

What is our perceptual set.

Answer 9

A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects, top-down processing.

Question 10

What can affect our perceptual set?

Answer 10

Context, Motives, and Emotion

Question 11

What does Extrasensory Perception (ESP) claim?

Answer 11

Perception can occur apart from sensory input; including telepathy, precognition, etc.

Question 12

Parapsychology is the study of what?

Answer 12

The study of paranormal phenomena, such as ESP and psychokinesis

Question 13

Skeptics argue that in order to believe in ESP you must also believe that the brain is?

Answer 13

Capable of perceiving without sensory input

Question 14

Relative Motion

Answer 14

As we move, objects that are actually stable may appear to move

Question 15

Interposition

Answer 15

If one object partially blocks out the view of another, we perceive it as closer

Question 16

What do nociceptors do?

Answer 16

Respond to potentially damaging stimuli by sending an impulse to the spinal cord, which passes the message to the brain, which interprets the signal as pain.

Question 17

Phantom Pain

Answer 17

The brain can create pain without sensory input. This happens to patients who have had a limb amputation

Question 18

What do taste buds contain?

Answer 18

A pore that catches good chemicals and antenna-like hairs that sense food chemicals. This info is sent to the temporal lobe

Question 19

How does the sense of smell differ from other senses?

Answer 19

It does not pass neural information through the thalamus.

Question 20

Color Constancy is?

Answer 20

Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination.

Question 21

The Cornea is what?

Answer 21

The eye’s clear, protective outer layer covers the pupil and Iris. Light enters through the cornea

Question 22

Pupil is what?

Answer 22

Small adjustable opening in the center of the eye which light passes through.

Question 23

Iris is what?

Answer 23

Ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil.

Question 24

The lens is what and do what

Answer 24

The transparent structure behind the pupil changes shape to help focus images on the retina

Question 25

What is priming?

Answer 25

Even if you don’t notice stimuli consciously, your brain might, and that can impact you.

Question 26

Auditory Canal

Answer 26

The channel located in the outer ear funnels sound waves from the pinna to the tympanic membrane (ear drum)

Question 27

Ear drum

Answer 27

A thin layer of tissue that vibrates in response to sound waves.