PSYC3221 WK 4 2

Which of the following is a reason for adaptation as a limitation?

• Neuronal fatigue

• Increased metabolic capacity

• Enhanced sensory response

• Maximized extraction of information

What might be a passive consequence of an inability to maintain high firing rates?

• Adaptation due to lack of metabolic capacity

• Enhanced sensory response

• Increased metabolic capacity

• Maximized extraction of information

What is the purpose of adaptation as an active, functional process?

• To maximize extraction of available and relevant information

• To increase metabolic capacity

• To cause neuronal fatigue

• To decrease sensory response

How might adaptation allow sensory systems to respond to the environment?

• By being self-calibrating

• By increasing metabolic capacity

• By causing neuronal fatigue

• By decreasing firing rates

In our sensory systems, what are attributes of the environment mapped onto?

• Patterns of neuronal responses

• Patterns of behavioral responses

• Patterns of emotional responses

• Patterns of cognitive responses

What is the nature of the range of responses in our sensory systems?

• Fixed

• Variable

• Random

• Unpredictable

How does the mapping in our sensory systems adapt?

• To optimize the use of the fixed response range

• To minimize the use of the fixed response range

• To randomize the use of the fixed response range

• To eliminate the use of the fixed response range

What does the unchanging nature of the mapping reflect?

• Statistical stationarity in the structure of the environment

• Randomness in the structure of the environment

• Variability in the structure of the environment

• Chaos in the structure of the environment

How does the mapping adapt when the structure of the environment changes?

• Accordingly

• Randomly

• Inversely

• Unpredictably

What is the procedure of adaptation?

• Changes induced in neural mechanisms

• Changes induced in perceptual experience

• Prolonged exposure to a particular diet of stimulation

• Immediate response to a new stimulus