Week 2 - Sensation and Perception Flashcards
The concept of levels of analysis recommends that the study of psychological phenomena should be ________.
a. behavioral
b. multidimensional
c. ethical
d. neurological
b. multidimensional
Nerve nets were initially likened to work like ___.
a. a mountain
b. a highway
c. quicksand
d. a volcano
b. a highway
Which of the following components of neural function is distinguished by being an absence of material?
a. axon
b. golgi
c. synapse
d. dendrite
c. synapse
The fact that certain neurons might respond only to your mother’s face but not your father’s face highlights the importance of ___.
a. specificity coding
b. population coding
c. hierarchical processing
d. feature detectors
a. specificity coding
Population coding is to sparse coding as ___ is to ___.
a. pattern; disorganized
b. disorganized; pattern
c. large; small
d. small; large
c. large; small
If you’re having problems with your vision, then it’s likely that there could be a problem with your ___ lobe.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. temporal
b. occipital
How does Broca’s area differ from Wernicke’s area?
a. Broca’s area is in the occipital lobe, whereas Wernicke’s area is in the occipital lobe.
b. Broca’s area is involved with producing language, whereas Wernicke’s area helps to comprehend language.
c. Broca’s area is involved in memory, whereas Wernicke’s area is not.
d. Broca’s area tends to be damaged in stroke victims, whereas Wernicke’s area is damaged in schizophrenic individuals.
b. Broca’s area is involved with producing language, whereas Wernicke’s area helps to comprehend language.
Suppose you’re carefully deliberating as to whether to accept a certain job offer. In doing so, you are especially using your ___ lobe.
a. temporal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. frontal
d. frontal
The brain is constantly changing in response to various experiences due to its ________.
a. malleability
b. plasticity
c. coding
d. networks
b. plasticity
Greta suffers from prosopagnosia. As such, we would expect her to ___.
a. show limited intelligence
b. have poor speech production
c. not be able to see clearly
d. have an inability to recognize faces
d. have an inability to recognize faces
Jorge rounds a bend on his hike and sees a beautiful waterfall—which fires a large number of neurons in his brain. Jorge’s response to this stimulus is an example of _____ coding.
a. population
b. memory
c. sparse
d. specificity
a. population
On a car assembly line, one team puts the windshields into the frames, a different team attaches the exhaust system, and another team attaches the doors. From a neural perspective, this illustrates the concept of ________.
a. double dissociation
b. distributed representation
c. localization of function
d. structural connectivity
c. localization of function
The extrastriate body area would be expected to become activated by seeing all of the following EXCEPT ___.
a. faces
b. legs
c. hands
d. torsos
a. faces
If a researcher detects how water diffuses along the length of nerve fibers, then he or she is likely engaged in the technique called ___.
a. functional magnetic resonance imaging
b. magnetic resonance imaging
c. distributed representation
d. track-weighted imaging
d. track-weighted imaging
Which of the following acts like a radio antenna in a car?
a. synapse
b. cell body
c. dendrite
d. axon
c. dendrite
A school cafeteria has 15 circular tables, with the students at each table talking and laughing with each other. This scene can be used as a model to illustrate ________.
a. feature detectors
b. double dissociation
c. neural circuits
d. population coding
c. neural circuits
Neurons in the skin that detect a spider crawling up your leg are called ________.
a. feature detectors
b. Golgi bodies
c. neurotransmitters
d. receptors
d. receptors
A neuron at rest has a ________.
a. positive charge of 70 millivolts
b. negative charge of 70 millivolts
c. positive charge of 40 millivolts
d. negative charge of 40 millivolts
b. negative charge of 70 millivolts
In large cities, bike messengers often pick up documents such as architectural drawings and deliver them to clients. Bike messengers function similarly to ________.
a. dendrites
b. receptors
c. synapses
d. neurotransmitters
d. neurotransmitters
Maya was thrilled to come home from work on her birthday and see a huge bouquet of flowers left on the table for her by her girlfriend. From a neurocognitive perspective, Maya’s experience of the flowers is a ________.
a. aphasia
b. feature
c. representation
d. neurotransmission
c. representation
You are able to perceive that a sailboat on the horizon is moving due to the actions of ________.
a. feature detectors
b. levels of analysis
c. voxels
d. salience network
b. levels of analysis
Driving in the dense fog, Sandeep could only see rows of large, white rectangles up ahead. As he got closer, he could make out that the rectangles were lighted windows in his hotel. Which term best describes what Sandeep experienced?
a. Broca’s aphasia
b. hierarchical processing
c. specificity coding
d. prosopagnosia
b. hierarchical processing
Paul Broca’s research refuted which of the following principles of brain function?
a. distributed representation
b. neural circuits
c. cortical equipotentiality
d. localization of function
c. cortical equipotentiality
Malcolm swears that the used car he bought is cursed. On hot, dry days, the windshield wipers work but the air conditioner doesn’t. On cold, rainy days, the air conditioner works but the windshield wipers don’t. Malcolm’s car serves as a metaphor for which of the following?
a. action potential
b. functional connectivity
c. double dissociation
d. distributed representation
c. double dissociation