Module 7: Sensation: Practice Quiz

While watching an exciting flag football game, Jayde didn't hear Ella calling her name. Which factor explains her failure to respond to Ella?

• Selective attention

• Difference threshold

• Just noticeable difference

• Sensory adaptation

As Nathan looks at a light, its wavelength changes. Nathan experiences this as

• A change in the hue of the light

• A flickering effect

• Movement of the light from one spot to another

• A change in the brightness of the light

Which of following structures of the eye is designed to detect only certain wavelengths of light?

• Pupil

• Cornea

• Lens

• Cones

The trichromatic theory of color vision says that

• Color is processed as light travels through the three layers of the lens

• Rods, cones, and bipolar cells all play a role in color vision

• Three different kinds of cones detect three different colors

• There are three color reversals in color afterimage drawings

Which two structures can be most easily damaged by loud sounds?

• The oval window and the auditory nerve

• The auditory canal and the stirrup

• The eardrum and the hair cells

• The hammer and the anvil

The amplitude of sound waves determines

• loudness.

• Hertz value.

• pitch.

• sound localization.

How are taste and smell different from the other senses?

• Taste and smell have higher difference thresholds than other senses

• Taste and smell rely on chemical stimuli rather than some other form of energy

• Taste and smell are the only senses that are part of the vestibular system

• Taste and smell are top-down rather than bottom-up senses

Juan tends to interpret current events the same way as his father. This indicates

• top-down processing

• bottom-up processing

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

Maria hears the music played by the ice cream truck when it is still several blocks away from her house. Her ability to relate to the faint sound relates to

• Sensory adaptation

• Difference threshold

• Just noticeable difference

• Absolute threshold

We have taste receptors for

• Peppermint

• Umami

• Fruit flavors

• Spice