PSYC 320 Exam 1 NEWEST VERSION ALL 350 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR

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PSYC 320 Exam 1 NEWEST VERSION ALL 350
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR



Question: What are the objects and events that are perceived (distal) and the physical

phenomena they produce (proximal)? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Stimuli




Question: What are the 2 types of stimulus? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Distal Stimulus - Perceived

object or event in the world


(the image of our professor, giving a high five)


Proximal Stimulus - Physical phenomenon evoked by a distal stimulus that impinges on the

specialized cells of a sense


(the light. soundwaves, that reach us)




Question: What are the primary senses? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sight, touch, olfaction (smell),

hearing (audition), gustation (taste)


- there are specifics in each for different types of perception




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Question: Some areas of the brain are... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔polysensory - information

from many senses are combined




Question: What is sensory integrations (multi-sensory integration)? - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔process of combining different sensory signals


- senses work together to help learn about the world and guide behavior


- can yield more precise information due to more info.




Question: What lobes of the brain are involved in sensory information? - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔- Frontal lobe - olfaction (smell) (anterior)


- Parietal lobe - somatosensory (skin/touch sense)


- Occipital lobe - vision (posterior)


- Temporal lobe - auditory (hearing)




Question: What subcortical area of the brain processes nearly all of your senses before the

signal is sent to the cortex? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Thalamus, almost all senses run through the

thalamus, prepossessing area



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Question: Which sense does NOT pass through the subcortical area mentioned above? -

CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Smell - olfaction does not go through the thalamus


- Thought to be our most ancient senses and may have evolved before we had a thalamus




Q:Sensation and Perception are central for what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mental life




Question: Is everything we perceive aligned with the real world? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔No,

theres a gap between what exists and what we sense or perceive (abstractions and allusions)




Question: From where do we get most of our information of the world? - CORRECT

ANSWER✔✔our senses - without them we don't know much




Question: Does every individual perceive the same way? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔NO - there's

lots of variability in how we perceive the world and others around us as well




Question: Sensation and perception are on a ... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Continuum




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Question: What is sensation? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Initial steps in the perceptual process,

whereby physical features of the environment are converted into electrochemical signals that

are sent to the brain for processing.


- beginning, where the world touches your senses


- info from world being transduced into neural energy




Question: What is perception? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Later steps, the initial sensory signals

are used to represent objects and events so they can be identified, stored in memory, and used

in thought and action


- take information from senses and use it to gain info. about the world and react




Question: What is neuroimaging? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of methods that generate

images of the structure and/or function of the brain. In many cases, these methods allow us to

examine the brain in living, behaving humans.


- Modern brain-imaging techniques enable us to see traces of the experience in the brain


- Neuroimaging uses cutting edge technologies to observe brain activity while somebody

perceives various stimuli




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