Quiz Flashcards
Which of the following are receptors that transduce a stimulus for one of the senses?
Taste buds and hair cells
What is evidence that people process faces different than other stimuli?
Neurons have been identified in monkeys that fire most strongly in response to monkey faces
Mri results show that fusiform face area responds to faces but not to other objects
Visual processing as a two step behavior….
Step one occurs very fast parallel processing
Step 2: occurs slow serial processing
Step 3: Feature detection
Question with green Ganglion cell…
More EPSP
Why are cochlear implants controversial?
Some people think they are a result of autism and that they threaten def culture.
If a split brain patient is provided with the word “houseboat” with house on the left and boat on the right what would the patient report seeing?
A boat
Low frequency sound waves produce…
a low pitched sound
SJ was in a car accident and started ignoring everything on the left side. This was damage to the?
right partial area
Air traffic controlled should chose a strategy that yields…
high false alarm rate
Match element to the visual system with its function
Cones- very sensitive to particular…
Rods-very sensitive to light
Matching brain area with associated awareness…
Parietal lobe-
prefrontal cortex-
temporal lobe-
occipital lobe-
Parietal lobe- snorkling
prefrontal cortex-lily plans out itinerary
temporal lobe-while biking Lilly notices
occipital lobe- emit first sees a shape moving
Which of following is function of sleep?
Recuperation and tissue repair
Memory consolidation
What is true for REM Sleep
The occipital lobe is highly active
According to activation-synthesis theory, where do dreams come from?
They reflect the brain’s attempt to make sense of random brain activity
Which of the following is the best example of involving procedural memory?
Swiping metro card
