Psychology 10th Edition by Douglas Bernstein – Test Bank

1. ​Vision is considered a sense because it ____.

  a.  ​translates data from outside the nervous system into neural activity

  b.  ​provides information to the endocrine system

  c.  ​is empirical, or data-based

  d.  ​involves information from the environment

ANSWER:   a

REFERENCES:   Sensing and Perceiving the World

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

2. A ____ is a system that translates data from outside the nervous system into neural activity, thus giving the brain information about the world.​

  a.  ​perception

  b.  ​stimulus

  c.  ​receptive field

  d.  ​sense

ANSWER:   d

REFERENCES:   Sensing and Perceiving the World

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

3. Sensation consists of ____, and perception consists of ____.​

  a.  ​responding to changes in stimuli; adapting to a non-changing stimulus

  b.  ​adapting to a non-changing stimulus; responding to changes in stimuli

  c.  ​collecting raw information about the environment; interpreting environmental information

  d.  ​interpreting environmental information; collecting raw information about the environment

ANSWER:   c

REFERENCES:   Sensing and Perceiving the World

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

4. Mr. Wizard introduces the children on his TV show to accessory structures of our sensory systems. He tells them these structures are responsible for ____.​

  a.  ​modifying physical energy from the outside world

  b.  ​converting physical energy into neural activity

  c.  ​carrying information from receptors to the brain

  d.  ​interpreting physical energy in a meaningful way

ANSWER:   a

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

5. Imagine that humans can taste a new sensation, called “highlight,” that allows the person to taste the brightness of the food they are eating. Everyone would need a new type of ____ cell to taste this new sensation.​

  a.  ​neural receptor

  b.  ​ganglion

  c.  ​bipolar

  d.  ​interneuron

ANSWER:   a

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

6. During his adventures around the galaxy, Arthur Dent relies on an earpiece that deciphers all the strange alien languages he hears. Similarly, receptors in the ear encode sound waves into neural activity that the brain can understand, a process called ____.​

  a.  ​transduction

  b.  ​synthesis

  c.  ​transcription

  d.  ​accommodation

ANSWER:   a

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

7. The structures responsible for the process of transduction are known as ____.​

  a.  ​accessory structures

  b.  ​sensory nerves

  c.  ​neural receptors

  d.  ​feature detectors

ANSWER:   c

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

8. Liz Lemon needs to remember to pick up lunch for her writing staff, so she ties a string around her finger as a reminder. Unfortunately, by noon, she no longer notices the string around her finger. This was most likely due to ____.​

  a.  ​perceptual constancy

  b.  ​kinesthetic perception

  c.  ​transduction

  d.  ​sensory adaptation

ANSWER:   d

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand

9. The process of translating the physical properties of a stimulus into a pattern of neural activity that allows us to identify those properties is known as ____.​

  a.  ​encoding

  b.  ​reception

  c.  ​perception

  d.  ​transduction

ANSWER:   a

REFERENCES:   Sensory Systems

KEYWORDS:   Bloom’s: Understand