F25 Psych C1000 Exam 2 Review

When sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that the brain can understand this is called

• sensation.

• absolute threshold.

• sensory adaptation.

• transduction.

After transduction, the neural signals of vision, hearing, taste, and touch all pass through the

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• thalamus

• hypothalamus

Which of the following is most sensitive to different colors?

• lens

• rods

• cornea

• cones

Which of the following taste sensations was most recently discovered?

• sweet

• sour

• bitter

• umami

Sue is smiling at her infant cousin, who observes the smiling and imitates by smiling back. The baby learned based on

• punishment

• modeling

• vicarious conditioning

• insight learning

In memory, the storage phase of information processing lasts

• several seconds.

• several hours.

• several days.

• from a second to a lifetime.

Tom is trying to remember the name of his psych professor from last term. Tom must search for information in his

• sensory storage.

• working memory.

• short-term storage.

• long-term storage

When reading this question, your brain changes words into meaningful neural code that it can use. In memory, this is

• encoding.

• storage.

• retrieval.

• attention.

You vividly remember where you were when you 1st heard of the COVID closures. What you remember is a(n) _______ memory.

• flashbulb

• implicit

• procedural

• prospective

In classical conditioning, a neutral stimulus is paired with a(n) ________.

• neutral stimulus

• unconditioned response

• conditioned response

• unconditioned stimulus