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Sample Questions |
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1. Explain the process of transduction in
the retina. |
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2. Compare anatomical and temporal coding
of sensory stimuli. |
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3. Which if the following is a property of
light? |
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a. Hue b. Brightness c. Saturation d. all of the above |
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4. How does light gets to the
photoreceptors? How does visual
information get out of the retina and into the cortex? |
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5. How is visual information analyzed in
the cortex? |
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6. Explain dark adaptation. |
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7. Explain color vision. |
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8. Recognition of objects can be aided by |
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increasing the number of items being viewed. |
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adding distinctive features. |
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c.
increasing the speed of scanning the scene in which the object has been
placed. |
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d.
all of the above |
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9. Explain laws of Gestalt. |
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10. Explain the various monocular cues of
depth perception |
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11. Contrast top-down and bottom up
processing |
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12. Compare and contrast: habituation,
classical conditioning and operant conditioning |
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13. In classical conditioning, the
extinction of a conditioned response can be obtained by..... |
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14. Bob likes to amuse his party guests and
be the center of attention. Last week end, he learned not to tell sexist
jokes in front of women, as they did not seem to appreciate his humor. |
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A psychologist could explain his experience as negative reinforcement. |
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b.
A psychologist could explain his experience as positive reinforcement. |
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c.
A psychologist could explain his experience as defeat. |
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d.
A psychologist could explain his experience as response cost. |
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15. Compare and contrast positive
reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, and response cost. |
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16. You want to design an experiment to
test the negative effects of a drug on conditioning in rats. In your
experimental protocol, you want to get the maximal and fastest learning
effect of conditioning. |
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The conditional stimulus should follow the unconditional stimulus. |
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The conditional stimulus should coincide with the unconditional stimulus. |
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c.
The conditional stimulus should just precede the unconditional stimulus. |
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d.
You should introduce a long lapse of time between the conditional and
unconditional stimuli. |
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17. Explain the lack of extinction in
experimental design using intermittent reinforcement. |
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18. Compare and contrast CS, CR, UCS, and
UCR. |
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19. Four stimuli are present in a room
during a classical conditioning experiment: (1) a tone, which sounds
sometimes before the UCS is presented; (2) a bell, which sounds regularly
during the experiment; (3) a light, which flickers just before every presentation
of the UCS; and (4) a beeper, which sounds just after each UCS presentation.
Which of these stimuli will most likely come to reliably elicit the CR? |
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a. the
tone |
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b. the
bell |
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c. the
light |
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d. the
beeper |
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20. Explain frustration, effects of
intermittent reinforcement, shaping, superstitious behavior |
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21. Explain biology of learning |