Additional Quiz A

A Short Quiz on Sensation, Perception and States of Consciousness

PART I - Items 1 - 10: MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the correct answer. Write the answer corresponding to the item number on your sheet of paper. Write the letter or text of the correct answer or both.

_____ 1. Sound waves travel from the middle ear to the inner ear via the:

A. semi-circular canal

B. auditory canal

C. oval window

D. tympanum

_____ 2. Achromatic colors include the following except:

A. red

B. gray

C. white

D. black

_____ 3. Amphetamine is to stimulant as heroine is to:

A. sedative

B. narcotic

C. depressant

D. psychedelic

_____ 4. The amplitude of the sound wave corresponds to:

A. loudness

B. timbre

C. pitch

D. frequency

_____ 5. The location of the taste buds most sensitive to sweet taste is the:

A. tip of the tongue

B. side of the tongue

C. base of the tongue

D. top of the tongue

_____ 6. The sense of seeing is to vision as the sense of taste is to:

A. audition

B. gustation

C. olfaction

D. none of the above

_____ 7. Which item does not belong to the group?:

A. cones

B. color receptor

C. rods

D. receptors for light of normal intensity

_____ 8. It is the tendency to perceive some objects as main figures while the rest are relegated to the background. This phenomenon is called:

A. illusion

B. figure-ground relationship

C. gestalt

D. all of the above

_____ 9. "Tectorial cells" is to sound wave as "____________________" is to pressure stimuli.:

A. interoceptors

B. Krause end bulbs

C. Merkel corpuscles

D. Ruffini cylinders

_____ 10. Which item does not belong to the group?:

A. malleus

B. stirrup

C. pinna

D. anvil

PART II - Items 11 - 15 : IDENTIFICATION - Each numbered item contains some words, description(s) or definition(s) related to concepts on sensation, perception and states of consciousness. IDENTIFY OR NAME the concept. Write the correct answer corresponding to the numbered item on your sheet of paper.

_______________11. It is the tendency to structure and give meaning to the stimulus in the environment.

_______________12. It regulates the amount of light that enters the eye.

_______________13. This type of extra-sensory perception is also known as "mind reading."

_______________14. Diplopia, scotoma, astigmatism.

_______________15. Dreaming, hypnosis, meditation

ANSWERS TO A SHORT QUIZ ON SENSATION, PERCEPTION AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

CORRECT ANSWERS

PART I - <10 POINTS>:

1. (C - oval window)

2. (A - red)

3. (B - narcotic)

4. (A - loudness)