MCQs on the Sensation

Which of the following body areas is most sensitive to pain?

That you do not hear the traffic outside your psychology class because you are engrossed in the lecture is a good example of

New mothers who are emotionally depressed take longer than non-depressed women to recognize pictures related to pregnancy, birth, and babies. This is an example of

Messages from the body’s pain warning system

Hearing loss caused when the eardrums or ossicles are damaged by disease or injury is called

The most widely accepted explanation for motion sickness is provided by

According to Weber’s Law, if two light bulbs must go out in a room in which twenty are burning to make the room noticeably dimmer, then a room in which forty are burning will become noticeably dimmer when __________ bulbs go out.

Trichromatic theory states that there are three kinds of __________ in the eye.

Subliminal perception

Melzack and Wall’s theory that some pain messages can block other pain messages is called

Which theory of hearing explains the perception of lower sounds?

The pain-killing effects of acupuncture may be related to

Difference thresholds

The incoming flow of information from our sensory systems is referred to a

Sense receptors are biological transducers, which means that they

__________ is concerned with relating changes in physical stimuli to corresponding psychological sensations.

Localization of function means that

The organ of hearing, where sensitive cells respond to auditory stimuli, is known as the

It is now believed that subliminal advertising

Humans respond to different wavelengths of light by experiencing differing