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Question 101

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Which of the following statements MOST accurately describes how visual information is transmitted to the brain? ​

A) Signals from each eye only go to the corresponding (same) hemisphere of the brain.
B) Signals from both eyes go to both hemispheres of the brain.
C) Signals from each eye only go to the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
D) Signals from the fovea of each eye go to the left hemisphere, and signals from the remaining areas of the retina go to the right hemisphere.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Question 102

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If, in a painting, a figure of a person is drawn larger than a house, the house will seem to be _____ because of _____.

A) closer; interposition
B) farther away; interposition
C) farther away; relative size
D) closer; relative size

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Compare vision and hearing with regard to the type of stimulus and information processing for each sense.

Eric has been wearing red welding goggles for the past 30 minutes. Based on the opponent-process theory of color vision, when Eric takes off the red goggles, he should expect that objects will temporarily appear to be ​

The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as the _____ system.

Blake was at a football game and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Blake's perception is MOST consistent with the Gestalt principle of

Visual illusions tend to be ​

By exploring the world of dreams and fantasy, Surrealists reflected the influence of ​

Our ability to tell how far away objects are is known as ​

Briefly describe the gate-control theory of pain perception and the recent research findings related to it.

If a piano player softly taps a key and then hits the same key with a lot of force, the second note will sound louder because of a difference in the _____ of the sound wave.

Last year, Fiona had a yard sale. She marked the prices of items very reasonably, and she refused to reduce them when people tried to "deal." This year, she had another yard sale, but this time, she marked the prices of items quite high, and then reduced them by 50% or more when people asked to "deal." Fiona was surprised to find that she made much more money this year. When she asks you why this might have happened, you explain how judgments can be affected by

Stimulation of sensory receptors of the skin is processed in the ​

Feature analysis assumes that we progress from individual elements to the whole in the formation of our perceptions. This is a case of ​

The Ames room, in which people seem to change size as they move about, demonstrates that our perception of the world depends strongly on

Jacob has been working at his computer for the past two hours, and the hum that he found so annoying when he started no longer bothers him. The change in Jacob's sensitivity to the noise from the computer illustrates the process known as ​

The spot in the center of the retina where visual acuity is greatest is the _____.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic tastes?

You can detect the difference between a musical note played on a trumpet and the same note played on a trombone because the two instruments have a different ​

If two sounds vary in frequency, they are perceived as differing in ​