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Question 1

You are waving your hand frantically to get the attention of your friend across the street. Finally, they see you and head your way. You think “Thanks ________ system for getting my hand to get the attention of my friend.”

	a.	parasympathetic
	b.	sympathetic
	c.	somatic
	d.	afferent

Question 2

Imagine that the parts of the brain can speak. As you look at a black widow spider coming towards you, which part would say, “I am your internal radar and it’s my responsibility to determine if a stimulus has positive or negative emotional significant and trigger an alarm if needed”?

	a.	thalamus
	b.	hippocampus
	c.	Broce’s area
	d.	amygdala

Question 3

You are a collection of neurons and your primary responsibility is to speed up and/or slow down the heart and lungs. Matter of fact, without you the heart would not beat, and your lungs would not breath. You are the:

	a.	pons
	b.	cerebellum
	c.	reticular formation
	d.	medulla

Question 4

Wimpy loves hamburgers. He thinks of them day and night. While laying outside on the grass with his friend Olive he states that all the clouds look like hamburgers. This utilization of experience to form perceptions is due to:

	a.	an unhealthy addiction to hamburgers
	b.	similarity
	c.	bottom-up processing
	d.	top-down processing

Question 5

Olive is laying on the grass with her friend Wimpy watching clouds roll by. She doesn’t see a sky filled with hamburgers. She has to look at a cloud for a long period of time before an image comes to mind. This process of raw sensory input coming together to form a perception is an example of:

	a.	ADHD
	b.	top-down processing
	c.	bottom-up processing
	d.	similarity

Question 6

Sensations occur:

                a.            after the sense organs engage in perception

                b.            right after we experience illusions

                c.             when a stimulus activates a receptor causing the process of transduction where an impulse is sent to be processed by the brain

                d.            once you react to the sensory input

Question 7

Lisa is listening to her jazz music when she hears her mom yell for her to turn it down. She turns down the volume, but a few minutes later she hears her mom scream again “I thought I told you to turn that music down!”. Her mothers’ inability to realize that the music had actually been turned down is likely due to:

	a.	adaptation
	b.	absolute threshold
	c.	JNd/difference threshold
	d.	transduction

Question 8

In order to answer the question, “At what point are you aware of a stimulus?” one should measure the:

	a.	proximity
	b.	just noticeable difference
	c.	absolute threshold
	d.	subliminal stimulus

Answer 1

1 D

2 D

3 D

4 D

5 C

6 C

7 C

8 C

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