A. Pressure of one had pushing on your head for 30 seconds
B. A puff of air blown in your face from 2 feet away
C. Water from a shower landing on your back with a velocity of one foot per second
D. The wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a distance of 1 centimeter
Related Mcqs:
- In Psychophysical research the absolute threshold has been arbitrarily define as:
A. the stimulus intensity that can be detected 100% of the time
B. the stimulus intensity that can be detected 50% of the time
C. the minimum amount of difference in intensity needed to tell two stimuli apart
D. a constant proportion of the size of the initial stimulus - Which theory would suggest that watching a horror movie late at night could lower your absolute threshold for sound as you subsequently tired to fall asleep?
A. Prime theory
B. Opponent process theory
C. Signal detection theory
D. Frequency theory - The absolute threshold for hearing is arbitrarily defined as zero:
A. Wavelength
B. Decibels
C. Phonemes
D. Hertz - 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 - These may be free nerve endings, expanded tip endings or stray endings that are able to detect stimuli of touch pressure, hearing and equilibrium:
A. Photoreceptors
B. Mechanoreceptors
C. Chemoreceptors
D. Thermoreceptors - Touch receptors are more numerous in the:
A. Finger tips
B. Skin of the neck
C. Skin of the abdomen
D. Evenly distributed throughout the body - When you go over to visit your friend’s new baby, your friend exclaims, “Watch this! Every time I touch his cheek he turns his mouth towards my finger!” Because you’ve taken psychology, you know that this phenomenon is called the______reflex.
A. grasping
B. complementary
C. rooting
D. startle - The pleasantness of touch is located in the_________.
A. Human orbitofrontal cortex
B. Human renin-angiotensin system
C. Human hypothalamus
D. Peacock hypothalamus - The scientific method that is not appropriate for psychology is_________?
A. non-parametic
B. introspection
C. field research
D. parametic statistics - Alloparenting is_________?
A. Hatching your infants from eggs
B. Caring for other’s infants
C. Eating your infants
D. Having multiple births
