Question 1

Regarding cultural differences in perception,which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A)  Japanese participants were better at detecting alterations to the background than detecting changes in the figure of a scene.
B)  European Americans tend to be collectivist and focus on interpersonal relationships and social responsibility.
C)  East Asians tend to be individualistic and tend to focus on self and their sense of personal control.
D)  European Americans tend to explain a person's actions in terms of the social context.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 2

Taking a fresh look and paying attention to sensations we have previously ignored is known as _______.

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Question 3

The text suggests that enhanced perceptual accuracy would be achieved through

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A)  habituation.
B)  the construction of perceptual sets.
C)  being aware of motives and expectations that can influence your perceptions.
D)  engaging in more routine top-down processing.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

In tests of facial recognition,people

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A)  are much better at recognizing faces of other races than their own race.
B)  show a consistent other-race effect.
C)  are able to recognize the faces of people from other races better if they are in a negative mood.
D)  exhibit all of these.E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 5

Abraham Maslow believed that people who are unusually accurate in their perceptions have which of the following qualities?

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A)  a surrender to perceptual habits
B)  a reliance on evaluation and criticism
C)  immersion in past experiences
D)  a lack of self-consciousnessE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

Regarding eyewitness testimony,which of the following statements is FALSE?

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A)  Judgments of color made under monochromatic light are highly unreliable.
B)  The less time an eyewitness has to observe an event,the less well she or he will perceive and remember it.
C)  The confidence of an eyewitness in their testimony is a good predictor of his or her accuracy.
D)  Alcohol intoxication impairs later ability to recall events.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

The text suggests that enhanced perceptual accuracy is LESS likely if we

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A)  rely only on our motivations and expectations.
B)  voluntarily direct attention toward sensations that are normally tuned out.
C)  engage in reality testing.
D)  interrupt habituation and break perceptual sets.E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

When Kierra is having a dispute with her friends or family members,she tries to take the other person's perspective and ask herself,"How does this look to her or him?" By doing this,Kierra is trying to

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A)  increase her awareness of how motives and emotions influence her perceptions.
B)  enhance her perceptual accuracy through the use of habituation.
C)  enhance her perceptual accuracy through the creation of perceptual sets.
D)  interrupt her tendency to engage in unconscious transference.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 9

If two objects make images of the same size,the more distant object must be larger.This is known formally as the
__________.

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Question 10

If you are led to perceive in a certain way due to past experience,motives,context,or suggestion,then you are experiencing which of the following?

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A)  perceptual set
B)  cognitive threshold
C)  perceptual orientation
D)  sensory biasE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

The underlying mechanism for perceptual expectancies is

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A)  a misleading perception that distorts or misjudges a stimulus.
B)  top-down processing.
C)  the organization of perception by beginning with low-level features.
D)  bottom-up processing.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Changes in the brain that alter how we process sensory information so that we can focus on just one part of a group of stimuli rather than processing all of the stimuli is called _______.

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Question 13

A perceptual expectancy is

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A)  a readiness to perceive in a particular manner.
B)  the organization of perceptions by beginning with low-level features.
C)  an ingrained pattern of perceptual organization and attention.
D)  the information surrounding a stimulus that gives meaning to the stimulus.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 14

Regarding how they perceive the world,European Americans tend to

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A)  be individualistic.
B)  be collectivist.
C)  explain actions in terms of social context.
D)  have a broader focus of attention.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

The problem with giving so much weight to eyewitness testimony in court is that

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A)  judges are reluctant to use it.
B)  juries rarely believe the eyewitness.
C)  reconstructions of events are deliberately altered.
D)  it is frequently wrong.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

According to psychologist Barbara Frederickson,the scope of one's attention is actually broadened by

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A)  positive emotions.
B)  negative emotions.
C)  habituation.
D)  perceptual sets.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

Students have found that if their psychology teacher repeats a term "three times," this term will definitely be on the test.Paying attention to specific stimuli illustrates the students'

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A)  perceptual learning.
B)  convergence.
C)  auditory accommodation.
D)  ability to use reality testing.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

In one study,participants said that a $90 wine tasted better than a $10 wine,although the participants had really tasted the same wine.Interestingly,the participants' functional MRI images showed that the pleasure areas of their brains were more active when they were told they were drinking the "$90 wine." The results of this experiment illustrate that

Accepted Answer

A)  suggesting the wine was expensive created a perceptual expectancy that it would taste better.
B)  few people are supertasters that have the ability to discern the difference in wines.
C)  few people are trained to do adequate reality testing.
D)  suggesting the wine was expensive created inattentional blindness,blocking the actual taste sensation of the wine and creating a delusion.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

Maria tries to listen to others with full concentration,making eye contact and watching their facial expressions.She is enhancing her perceptual accuracy by

Accepted Answer

A)  paying attention.
B)  forming perceptual sets.
C)  exhibiting habituation.
D)  allowing her emotions to influence her perceptions.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

A perceptual hypothesis that we are likely to apply to a stimulus,even if applying it is inappropriate is called

Accepted Answer

A)  dishabituation.
B)  a perceptual expectancy.
C)  reality testing.
D)  extrasensory perception.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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