1. From a Psychological perspective, what is wrong with this statement: "When I bite into a York peppermint patty, I get the sensation of swimming in a cool mountain stream on a hot summer day"?

peppermint patties aren't all that good
eating can't produce other types of sensations
sensation is a passive process and the statement describes an active process
peppermint inhibits tactile processes

2. In the human eye, there are approximately 120 million ______, which are the visual receptors that are vital for night vision, while there are approximately 6.4 million _____ that help us see color.

cornea; pupil
pupil; cornea
cones; rods
rods; cones

3. Which theory of color states that our receptors for color are capable of receiving information from pairs of colors (e.g., red-green), but can only handle one color from each pair at a time?

Trichromatic theory
Young-Helmholtz theory
Opponent Process theory
Color...what's color?

4. Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Woody Woodpecker all seem to come to life and appear capable of movement because of a process of presenting visual stimuli in very fast succession; a process that is known as:

the ponzo illusion
the proximity illusion
the autokinetic effect
the phi phenomenon

5. According to the _____ theory of hearing, perception of sound (in particular, pitch) occurs according to the rate at which the basilar membrane is stimulated, and thus is caused to vibrate.

frequency
place
reconditioning
adaptation

6. One might say that Michael Jordan has a highly developed _____, considering he seems to have such an incredible awareness of his body parts, their positions in space, and such great balance.

vestibular sense
kinesthetic sense
olfactory sense
ego

7. If you have ever been looking at something that appeared out of focus and tried to shift your focus slightly by moving your head, you were actually attempting to move the image onto the _____ at the back of your eye.

fovea
rods
cones
cornea

8. Scientists believe that many animals (possibly even humans??) secrete some type of odorous chemicals that influence the behaviors of other animals. These chemicals, known as _____, may be particularly important in mating and the whole attraction-reproductive process.

neurotransmitters
hormones
pheromones
altoids

9. The process of simply getting information about sensory stimuli into the body is known as _____, but converting that information into something meaningful is known as_____.

perception; sensation
sensation; perception
olfaction; perception
olfaction; sensation

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