A. amygdala
B. hypothalamus
C. thalamus
D. pons
Related Mcqs:
- Sania just caught sight of a red hummingbird. The neural impulses from her eye will eventually travel to her occipital lobe, but first they must pass through:
A. the hypothalamus
B. hippocampus
C. the reticular formation
D. the thalamus - Sound vibrations in the ear create neural impulses received in which of the following cortex locations?
A. temporal lobe
B. occipital lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. frontal lobe - The speed that neural impulses travel is _____________?
A. 3 to 200 miles an hour
B. the speed of light
C. 600 miles an hour
D. 200 miles a second - Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?
A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
D. Both (a) and (c) - John failed his mate exam but made a touch down during the homecoming game. He took credit for winning the game but blamed his professor for his Mate test failure. This is known as the:
A. Fundamental attribution error
B. Attribution of negative causality
C. Self- serving bias
D. Cognitive dissonance model - The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
A. Transduction
B. Sensory adaptation
C. Parallel processing
D. Accommodation - If the gene for blue eyes is recessive and if a child have blue eyes, which of the following must be true?
A. both parents have blue eyes
B. the child’s sibling has brown eyes
C. each parent has at least one blue eye gene
D. at least one parent must have blue eyes - Because Ken is 6 6, people often mistakenly assume that he must be a member of his college’s basketball team. The mistaken judgement best illustrates the impact of:
A. the availability heuristic
B. confirmation bias
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. the belief perseverance phenomenon - One boy has brown eyes. His twin brother has blue eyes. This information enables a person to conclude that the two ______________?
A. are identical twins
B. are fraternal twins
C. are monozygotic
D. have blue-eyed parents - The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?
A. Broca’s area
B. the sensory cortex
C. association areas
D. the limbic system
