PSY402 Quiz

All of the followings are included in skin senses EXCEPT:

Pressure

Temperature

Pain

Taste

Which branch of psychology deals with the relationship between brain, sensations and physical stimuli and their subjective correlates?

Neuroanatomy

Psychophysics

Environmental psychology

Ecology

Identify the part of ear which contains the organs that allow us to locate our position and determine how we are moving through space.

The outer ear

Middle ear

Inner ear

Oval window According to the results of "sniff tests", which sense is generally better in women than men?

Sense of Vision

Sense of Taste

Sense of Smell

Sense of Hearing

Psychophysics uses three methods for testing subjects' perception in stimulus detection and difference detection experiments. Which of the following is NOT included in them?

The method of limits

The method of constant stimuli

The method of adjustment

The method of varying stimuli

Suppose a subject is presented with pairs of stimuli, one member of the pair being fixed and the other member varying from trial to trial, sometimes being equal to the first stimulus, sometimes larger sometimes smaller. The subject is required to make a judgment of same or different in response to each pair. This is an example of ___________.

Just Noticeable Difference

Differential threshold

Point of Subjective Equality

Absolute sensitivity Ahmed has a fear of cat. He started shivering on watching cat. Later on he started to demonstrate the same symptoms of his fear on watching any furry stimuli. This is an example of which of the following concept?

Extinction

Discrimination

Shaping

Generalization

Many viewpoints have been proposed about learning. Each perspective is having its different notions. The locus of learning in behaviorism is on:

Internal cognitive structuring

Stimuli in external environment

Affective and cognitive needs

Learning is in relationship between people and environment

Animals release pheromones chemicals that produce a reaction in other members of the species permitting them to send messages of which kind?

Sexual availability

Social approval