The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?

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. What is major problem experienced by those researching deviance?

   A. the issue of confidentiality
   B. finding willing participants
   C. potential physical and emotional danger
   D. None of these

3. While driving his girlfriend to work Nate narrowly avoided a collision with another vehicle. Moments later, he experienced an unusually warm glow of effection for his girlfriend. His romantic reaction is best explained in terms of:

   A. the more exposure effect
   B. social exchange theory
   C. social facilitation
   D. the two- factor theory of emotion

4. Which of the following are NOT necessarily characteristics of an authoritarian personality? people with authoritarian personalities tend to:
   1.Have experienced harsh family rearing strategies.
   2.Hate their parents.
   3.Idolize power figures.
   4.Strive for a changing world order.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 1 & 3

5. The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?

   A. medulla
   B. hippocampus
   C. pons
   D. hypothalamus

6. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

7. An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?

   A. retroactive amnesia
   B. proactive amnesia
   C. anterograde amnesia
   D. implicit amnesia

8. Memories of traumatic physical abuse are most unlikely to be __________________?

   A. encoded
   B. repressed
   C. rehearsed
   D. retrieved

9. Echoic memories fade after approximately ________________?

   A. 1 hour
   B. 1 minute
   C. 30 seconds
   D. 1 second

10. One of the followings receives and processes sensory information, initiates responses, stores memories and generates thoughts and emotions is:

    A. Somatic nervous system
    B. Brain
    C. Autonomic nervous system
    D. Spinal cord