Which of the following is most likely to influence our memory of a painful event? a. The overall length of the event. b. The intensity of pain at the end of the event. c. The reason for the pain. d. The amount of rest you've had in the 24 hours preceding the event. e. The specific part of the body that experiences the pain.

Which of the following might result from a disruption of your vestibular sense? a. Inability to detect the position of your arm without looking at it. b. Loss of the ability to detect bitter tastes. c. Dizziness and a loss of balance. d. An inability to detect pain. e. Loss of color vision.

Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process? a. Vision. b. Sensory adaptation. c. Absolute thresholds. d. Smell. e. Context effects.

What is the purpose of the iris? a. To focus light on the retina. b. To process color. c. To allow light into the eye. d. To enable night vision. e. To detect specific shapes.

Which of the following represents perceptual constancy? a. We recognize the taste of McDonald's food each time we eat it. b. In photos of people, the people almost always are perceived as figure and everything else as ground. c. We know that the color of a printed page has not changed as it moves from sunlight into shadow. d. From the time they are very young, most people can recognize the smell of a dentist's office. e. The cold water in a lake doesn't seem so cold after you have been swimming in it for a few minutes.

Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements are called what? a. Rods. b. Cones. c. Ganglion cells. d. Feature detectors. e. Bipolar cells.

Which of the following groups of scores would have the smallest standard deviation? a. 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 b. 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 c. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 d. 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 e. 15, 30, 45, 60, 75

Which of the following is the best example of sensory interaction? a. Finding that despite its delicious aroma, a weird-looking meal tastes awful. b. Finding that food tastes bland when you have a bad cold. c. Finding it difficult to maintain your balance when you have an ear infection. d. Finding that the cold pool water doesn’t feel so cold after a while. e. All of these are examples.

Which of the following is most closely associated with hairlike receptors in the semicircular canals? a. Body position. b. Smell. c. Hearing. d. Pain. e. Touch.

When Kluver and Bucy surgically lesioned the amygdala of a rhesus monkey's brain, what was the impact on the monkey's behavior? a. Lost its ability to coordinate movement. b. Died because its heartbeat became irregular. c. Became less aggressive. d. Lost its memory of where food was stored e. Sank into an irreversible coma.

Which perception process are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup involved in? a. Processing intense colors. b. Processing information related to our sense of balance. c. Supporting a structural frame to hold the eardrum. d. Transmitting sound waves to the cochlea. e. Holding hair cells that enable hearing.

A researcher interested in determining the size of a particular area of the brain would be most likely to use what kind of test? a. Lesion. b. EEG. c. MRI. d. fMRI. e. PET scan.

You are more likely to remember psychology information in your psychology classroom than in other environments because of what memory principle? a. Mood congruence. b. Context effects. c. State-dependency. d. Proactive interference. e. Retroactive interference.

Which is the most influential of the endocrine glands? a. Pituitary gland b. Adrenal glands c. Dendrites d. Threshold glands e. Parasympathetic