Where does most processing of visual images take place?
Visual cortex
Agatha maintains that people are capable of freely making voluntary choices. Constance is mainly focused on how aggression is caused by genetic inheritance. It seems reasonable to assume that Constance is not much interested in environmental factors impacting behavior while Agatha rejects
determinism.
Which of the following statements regarding processing is true?
Top-down processing allows you to fill in the gaps in an incomplete or ambiguous pattern.
The _______ division of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for what's often called the body's "fight-or-flight" response.
sympathetic
People with Parkinson's disease have a deficiency of which neurotransmitter?
Dopamine
In conducting an experiment, the experimenter divides a sample group of 60 children into two groups of 30 called group A and group B. To make sure the two groups are similar in terms of age, IQ, and so on, the experimenter will assign people to either group A or B using a/an ________ assignment procedure, such as a coin toss, where heads sends a subject to group A and tails sends a subject to group B.
random
Ron is running an experiment to see if certain sounds can improve memory. While testing the subjects’ memory, Ron unintentionally smiles when the subjects seem to be arriving at the proper answer. His smile helps the subject pick the correct answer. In this case, Ron is showing
experimental bias.
The _______ branches out from the spinal cord and brain and reaches the extremities of the body.
peripheral nervous system
Dr. Lombard's research focuses on the capacity of the human mind to store and retrieve information. Her colleague, Dr. Fry, is a clinician who strives to help his clients "be all they can be." As a fly on the wall listening to these two psychologists' civil disputes during coffee breaks, which psychological perspective can you assume Dr. Fry adheres to?
Humanist
Which of the following situations would be an example of sensory adaptation?
The sound of a continuously barking dog seems quieter after a few minutes.
The left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is more specialized in language functions and processing information sequentially. The right hemisphere tends to specialize in spatial perception and distinguishing patterns. These are examples of cortex
lateralization.
You study a sample of 100 high school students and find that student IQ scores increase significantly as the level of reported parental income increases. You can conclude from this that
there's a positive correlation between parental income and children's IQ scores.
Dr. Jones is interested in how human behavior may be genetically inherited from remote ancestors. Her field of interest is
evolutionary psychology.
Within the cerebral cortex, the _______ area is found in the occipital lobe.
visual
In an experiment, all participants receive a treatment, but those in the control group receive a false treatment, which is called a
placebo.
A researcher is conducting an experiment. When the subject offers a less than desirable response, he shakes his head no. The subject then changes her response, and the researcher shakes his head yes. The researcher is exhibiting
experimenter bias.
A phenomenon in which physical objects are perceived as unvarying and consistent despite changes in their appearance or in the physical environment is known as
perceptual constancy.
Touch, pressure, temperature, and pain play a critical role in survival. These are known as _______ senses.
skin
Which of the following statements regarding taste and smell is true?
Women tend to have a better sense of smell than men.
By means of introspection, Dr. Marsh attempts to determine the components of things like perception, thinking, and consciousness. By contrast, Dr. Smyth wants to understand what the mind does in producing different kinds of behavior. We can reasonably assume that Dr. Marsh's research is mainly guided by the principles of
structuralism.