Exam #2 (Quiz #2)

The optic nerve is responsible for creating the

• Fovea

• Ganglion bundle

• Blind spot

• Optic chiasm

Top down processing is when you use ____ to make sense of external stimuli

• Occipital lobe

• Frontal cortex

• New knowledge

• Prior knowledge

The cochlea is the part of the inner ear that is filled with guild and contains ___

• Outer ear

• Hairs

• Eardrum

• Pinna

What stream of vision travels from the occipital lobe to the parietal lobe

• Dorsal

• Ventral

• Frontal

• Lateral

Gate control theory states that pain can be blocked in the ___

• Frontal cortex

• PNS

• CNS

• Spinal cord

The temporal lobe processes this sense

• Smell

• Sound

• Touch

• Taste

Who said that assimilation occurs when we encounter information that is similar to what we ave existing cognitive structures about

• Watson

• Skinner

• Piaget

• Freud

What is a property of sound waves

• Frequency

• Rhythm

• Loudness

• Confoundedness

The rebound effect of thought suppression is when someone tells you to not think about a polar bear and then you ____

• Think about a zebra

• Don’t think of a polar bear

• See a zebra

• Think of a polar bear

Inatentional blindness is when you miss something because it is not in the focus of your ____

• Eyes

• Attention

• Consciousness

• Mind