Quiz #1 Flashcards
`“When I look at the Hermann grid, I see dark spots in the white areas at the intersections, but when I look directly at the intersection, the spot vanishes.” Which research technique is most likely to have yielded this statement?
a.
Magnitude Estimation
b.
Phenomenological Report
c.
Physical Tasks and Judgments
d.
Recognition Testing
B. Phenomenological Report
According to Goldstein, the actual object that is in the world, such as a tree, that is available for us to perceive, is called the _____.
a.
distal stimulus
b.
nomological net
c.
perceptual target
d.
proximal stimulus
a.
distal stimulus
Jaime forgot to wear his glasses to class today so the writing he sees on the chalk board is blurry. Even so, he is pretty sure it says “Pop Quiz!” because he knows there are pop quizzes in the class and he can sort of see the “P” and the “Q” well enough. What allows Jaime to read the board?
a.
Top-down processing
b.
Bottom-up processing
c.
Oblique processing
d.
Presbyopia
a.
Top-down processing
Pat used the method of limits to determine the smallest stimulus level that can just be detected by an individual. Stimuli at intensity levels below this level could not be detected; stimuli at intensity levels above this level could be detected. Thus, Pat was determining the observer’s _____.
a.
difference threshold
b.
absolute threshold
c.
minimum detectable stimulus
d.
point of sensibility
b.
absolute threshold
The _____ is a band of energy ranging from gamma rays at the short-wave end of the band to AM radio and AC circuits at the long-wave end of the band.
a.
electromagnetic spectrum
b.
visible light wave
c.
FM band width
d.
Kelvin scale
a.
electromagnetic spectrum
The _____ is that people, including babies, and apparently ferrets as well, see vertical and horizontal lines better than lines oriented at an angle.
a.
oblique effect
b.
slant shift principle
c.
diagonality deficit
d.
tilted blindness phenomenon
a.
oblique effect
The experimenter turns on one light bulb and asks the observer to consider it a 10 on the brightness scale. Then, the experimenter turns on a second light and asks the observer to assign a number that is proportional to 10 to indicate the perceived brightness, now that the second light has been introduced. This experimenter is using the _____.
a.
Method of Adjustment
b.
Method of Magnitude Estimation
c.
Method of Constant Stimuli
d.
Method of Limits
b.
Method of Magnitude Estimation
The principle of _____ states that everything a person perceives is based not on direct contact with stimuli but on representations of stimuli that are formed on the receptors and the resulting activity in the person’s nervous system.
a.
indirect perception
b.
transformation
c.
transduction
d.
representation
d.
representation
The process of transforming energy in the environment into electrical energy in the neuron is called _____.
a.
transduction
b.
reduction
c.
construction
d.
refraction
a.
transduction
Which of the following is NOT one of Fechner’s classical psychophysical methods?
a.
Method of Adjustment
b.
Method of Constant Stimuli
c.
Method of Magnitude Estimation
d.
Method of Limits
c.
Method of Magnitude Estimation
