An injury that leads to the loss of binocular vision would have the greatest impact on a. visual acuity. b. color perception. c. peripheral vision. d. depth perception. e. selective attention.

Zeina cocked her head to the side immediately when she hared the fire truck's siren Turning her head enabled each car to detect a slight different intensity of sound this enabling her to determine the siren's. a. timbre b. pitch c. frequency d. location e. tone

The stage of sleep in which an EEG would detect the bursts of rhythmic activity known as sleep spindles is called a. REM sleep. b NREM-1. c. NREM-2. d. NREM-3. e. hypnagogic sleep.

One way to determine if infants can perceive a certain stimulus is to measure how long they gaze at the item before looking away. Psychologists use what term to refer to the concept that infants tend to decrease their rate of responding when a stimulus is repeated and no longer novel? a. Sensory adaptation. b. Infantile amnesia. c. Perceptual set. d. Perceptual constancy. e. Habituation.

Which branch of psychology studies the processes of sensation and perception?

''My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Facts, ideas suggestions and other forms of post-event information con modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories has been a significant application of the memory research." -Elizabeth Loftus, July 2005. According to Dr. Loftus, what is the nature of memory?

Damage to which of the following brain areas would create the most difficulty in interpreting feelings of heat and cold? a. Motor cortex. b. Sensory cortex. c. Frontal lobe d. Temporal lobe. e. Occipital lobe.

Visual cliff experiments on depth perception suggest that a. infants have not yet developed depth perception. b. crawling infants perceive depth. c. we have no way of knowing whether infants can perceive depth. d. humans are the only animals that can perceive depth in infancy.

Teachers at York High School were dismayed at a new test they would be required to take to demonstrate their ability as educators. Rather than a test of content knowledge or of teaching techniques, the new test would measure their reaction time to a series of rapidly flashed abstract images and words. Despite the assurances of the test’s creator, the teachers argued that a test like this would have low a. content validity. b. diagnostic validity. c. split-half reliability. d. test-retest reliability. e. psychometric ratings.

The work of Elizabeth Loftus and other researchers has led to significant changes in the way courts and police officers think about a. the traumatic effects of solitary confinement. b. whether patients with schizophrenia can be forced to take medication against their will. c. whether the insanity defense is a legitimate method for handling legally insane individuals. d. whether spouses should be forced to testify against their spouses on the witness stand. e. the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and identification.

Random dot stereograms are pictures that have an image hidden among the dots. Human scan often see these hidden images because each eye has a slightly different image projected on its retina, allowing us to see depth. Which term best describes the process? a. Motion parallax. b. Convergence. c. Retinal disparity. d. Relative height. e. Linear perspective.

Longitudinal studies suggest that certain characteristics, such as reactivity and intensity, appear early in life and remain stable from childhood into adulthood. Psychologists use what term to refer to these aspects of personality?

a. Schema

b. Reflex

c. Temperament

d. Fixation

e. Sensory adaptation

Albert Bandura believed that children could learn not only by doing behaviors themselves, but also by watching models perform those behaviors. His ideas expanded the idea of learning to include a. observational learning. b. classical conditioning. c. operant conditioning. d. latent learning. e. rote learning.

In the early twentieth century, French psychologists led by Alfred Binet developed the first test for intelligence to be given to French school children for the purpose of a. selecting the most capable to be turned as future leaders. b. identifying those who might be wasting their talents and not taking school seriously. c. testing whether French teachers merited higher pay. d. evaluating the quality of French schools. e. finding children who were struggling academically.