Brain cells that analyze incoming sensory information into lines, angles, shading, and movement are called:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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)

2. When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g., cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g., sensory receptors)?

   A. Recurrent processing model
   B. Serial processing model
   C. Parallel processing model
   D. Selective adaptation model

3. The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?

   A. regeneration
   B. accommodation
   C. aphasia
   D. plasticity

4. The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:

   A. tomography
   B. hemispherectomy
   C. phrenology
   D. plasticity

5. ____________________ is an ability to evaluate compare, analyze, critique, and synthesize information.

   A. critical thinking
   B. Transudative thinking
   C. Deductive thinking
   D. Creative thinking

6. When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?

   A. assimilation
   B. adaptation
   C. conservation
   D. accommodation

7. Which of the following sensory systems involves the ganglion cells and the ciliary muscles?

   A. Cutaneous
   B. Auditory
   C. Visual
   D. Olfactory

8. Which philosophical movement claimed that the human mind consists of elementary ideas that originate from sensory experiences?

   A. nativism
   B. empiricism
   C. dualism
   D. interactionism
   E. None of these

9. Chemicals which are produced in the brain and facilitate communication between nerve cells are called ______________?

   A. neurotransmitters
   B. plasmas
   C. syntactic structures
   D. adrenocorticoids

10. A psychosis arising from an advanced stage of syphilis, in which the disease attacks brain cells, is called:

    A. Korsakoff syndrome
    B. delirium tremens
    C. schizotypical psychosis
    D. general paresis