PSY 111 Ch. 4

In the study by Kenrick and Gutierres (1980), exposing male subjects to a TV show dominated by extremely beautiful women:

• decreased their ratings of the attractiveness of a prospective date.
• increased their ratings of the attractiveness of a prospective date.

• increased their rating of their own attractiveness.

The fact that theories originally seen as being incompatible, such as the trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision, are now seen as both being necessary to explain sensory processes illustrates:

• the value of psychology's theoretical diversity.
• that psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context

• the nature-nurture controversy.

In what way(s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

• The physical stimuli for both senses are chemical substances dissolved in fluid.

• There are four primary stimulus groups for both senses.

• Both systems are routed through the thalamus on the way to the cortex

Perception of pitch can best be explained by:

• place theory

• frequency theory

• both place and frequency theory

In a painting, train tracks may look as if they go off into the distance because the artist draws the tracks as converging lines, a monocular cue to depth known as:

• gradient

• relative size

• linear perspective

A readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way is referred to as (a):

• perceptual set

• feature analysis

• gestalt

• congruence

Which theory would predict that the American flag has a green, black, and yellow afterimage (made up of complementary colors)?

• opponent process theory

• additive color mixing

• trichromatic theory

The primary visual cortex is located in the:

The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s:

In farsightedness:

• the focus of light from close objects falls behind the retina.

• the focus of light from distant objects falls a little short of the retina