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?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. The absolute threshold for touch is_________?

   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

3. The absolute threshold for hearing is arbitrarily defined as zero:

   A. Wavelength
   B. Decibels
   C. Phonemes
   D. Hertz

4. Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fell asleep is most likely due to ____________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. the misinformation effect
   C. retroactive interference
   D. motivated forgetting

5. An 80-decibel sound is______times louder than a 60-decibel sound.

   A. 20
   B. 2
   C. 10
   D. 100

6. Five-year-olds who were surprised to discover that a Blind-Aids box contained pencils subsequently delighted in anticipating their friend’s false belief about the contents of the box. This best illustrates that the children had developed a(n):

   A. conventional morality
   B. theory of mind
   C. concept of conservation
   D. secure attachment

7. Akhtar is watching a basketball game the neural impulses from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the:

   A. amygdala
   B. hypothalamus
   C. thalamus
   D. pons

8. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

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

9. A 3D movie enhances one’s sense of depth perception by simulating the effects of:

   A. Linear perspective
   B. Convergence
   C. Interposition
   D. Retinal disparity

10. The perception that Bugs Bunny is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates:

    A. Stroboscopic movement
    B. Visual capture
    C. The Ponzo illusion
    D. Perceptual adaptation