Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. The area of the brain where the sense of smell is processed is the _____________?

   A. frontal lobe
   B. pineal gland
   C. olfactory bulbs
   D. parietal lobe

2. The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?

   A. chunking
   B. rehearsal
   C. encoding
   D. retrieval

3. Left-handedness is ___________than normal among artists and __________ than normal among professional baseball players.

   A. higher; lower; lower
   B. higher; higher; higher
   C. lower; higher; lower
   D. lower; lower; lower

4. 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)

5. An awareness of extensive cultural differences in attitudes and values is most helpful for avoiding ____________?

   A. replication
   B. random sampling
   C. the hindsight bias
   D. the false consensus effect

6. Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?

   A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
   B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
   C. The ability to read mathematical operations
   D. The ability to speak multiple languages

7. ______ receive information from other neurons; _________ transmit information other neurons.

   A. synapses, cell bodies
   B. Dendrites, axon buttons
   C. Axon buttons dendrites
   D. Axon; cell bodies

8. Under normal conditions a nerve impulse is initiated by an appropriate stimulus called:

   A. Threshold stimulus
   B. Active membrane potential
   C. Resting membrane potential
   D. All of the above

9. Information picked up by the body’s receptor called is termed:

   A. Cognition
   B. Perception
   C. Adaptation
   D. Sensation

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

    A. Sight cells
    B. Second stage sensors
    C. Feature detectors
    D. Vision neurons