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A Famous Psychic Is A Youtube Sensation

Dwayne Morise

Question: As she looks at a face, Jamie is able to recognize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can recognize her mother’s face?

  1. Selective attention

  2. b. Transduction

  3. c. Bottom-up processing

  4. d. Top-down processing

  5. e. Signal detection theory

  6. Answer: c. bottom-up processing

  7. Question: Charles and his wife are at a loud baseball game, yet are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

  8. a. Bottom-up processing

  9. b. Weber’s law

  10. c. The cocktail party effect

  11. d. Top-down processing

  12. e. Sensory adaptation

  13. Answer: c. The cocktail party effect

  14. Question: As Jeff reads his psychology textbook he is able to convert the light waves into signals that his brain can interpret due to the concept of

  15. a. transduction

  16. b. perception

  17. c. priming

  18. d. signal detection theory

  19. e. threshold

  20. Answer: a. transduction

  21. Question:

  22. Answer: c. a difference threshold

  23. Question:

  24. Answer: e. sensory adaptation

  25. Question:

  26. Answer: b. perceptual set

  27. Question: On a warm summer day, Kimberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly’s brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

  28. a. context

  29. b. priming

  30. c. sensory adaptation

  31. d. bottom-up processing

  32. e. clairvoyance

  33. Answer: a. context

  34. Question: A famous psychic is a YouTube sensation because of his ability to read the minds of people in the audience at his shows. Which type of psychic power would he claim?

  35. a. precognition

  36. b. psychokinesis

  37. c. clairvoyance

  38. d. telepathy

  39. e. bottom-up processing

  40. Answer: d. telepathy

  41. Question: Which perceptual process explains why you can see varied aspects of your favorite singer’s face and instantly recognize him or her?

  42. a. Selective attention

  43. b. Accommodation

  44. c. Psychokinesis

  45. d. Blindsight

  46. e. Parallel processing

  47. Answer: e. Parallel processing

  48. Question: What do we call the specialized neurons in the occipital lobe’s visual cortex that respond to particular edges, lines, angles, and movements?

  49. a. Rods

  50. b. Cones

  51. c. Bipolar cells

  52. d. Feature detectors

  53. e. Ganglion cells

  54. Answer: d. Feature detectors