Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition Goldstein Test Bank

Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition Goldstein Test Bank 16. If kittens are raised in an environment that contains only verticals, you would predict that most of the neurons in their visual cortex would respond best to the visual presentat ion of a a. brick wall. b. chain link fence. c. solid wall. *d. picket fence. 17. Which organ is unique in that it appears to be static tissue? a. Heart *b. Brain c. Lungs d. Kidney 18. Edgar Adrian studied the relationship between nerve firing and sensory experience b y measuring how the firing of a neuron from a receptor in the skin changed as he applied more pressure to the skin. He found that a. the shape and height of the action potential increased as he increased the pr essure. b. the shape and height of the action potential decreased as he increased the pr essure. *c. the rate of nerve firing increased as he increased the pressure. d. the rate of nerve firing decreased as he increased the pressure. 19. When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of neur ons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur's face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 resp onding the least. Roger's face causes three different neurons to fire, with neuron 7 respo nding the least and neuron 9 responding the most. Your results support __________ codi ng. a. specificity b. distributed *c. sparse d. divergence 20. Why is it easier to study brain tissue from newborn animals than brain tissue from a dults? *a. The density of cells in a newborn brain is small compared with the density in an adult brain. b. The density of cells in a newborn brain is higher compared with the density in an adult brain. c. The nerve net system in newborn animals is less developed. d. The nerve net system in newborn animals is more developed. 21. Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to specificity cod ing? a. It is probably accurate, which explains why the human nervous system contain s over one hundred billion neurons. b. Research has found that specificity encoding does occur for lower animals, su ch as dogs and cats, but has not found this phenomenon to exist in human being s. *c. It is unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the world to have a separate neuron for each. d. Specificity coding is one of the areas that is only theoretical and not applied, and thus there is no way to know if it truly exists in human beings. 22. Which of the following is consistent with the idea of localization of function? a. Specific areas of the brain serve different functions. b. Neurons in different areas of the brain respond best to different stimuli. c. Brain areas are specialized for specific functions. *d. All of these are correct. 23. Recording from single neurons in the brain has shown that neurons responding to s pecific types of stimuli are often clustered in specific areas. These results support the id ea of a. cortical association. b. dissociation. *c. localization of function. d. the information processing approach. 24. Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's r