PSY 120 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
gestalt - Answers Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground
relationship, law of similarity, and proximity?
vestibular - Answers Braden has a pounding headache and is disoriented after riding a twisting
roller coaster. What sense was impacted by the ride?
the cross modal relationship between auditory speech and visual information - Answers Austin
has never met one of his work colleagues, having only interacted online or on the phone. He's
still able to pick out his coworker at a conference in a room full of people because of ________.
pinna - Answers The most visible part of the ear is the
monocular - Answers ________ cues require only one eye.
mechanoreceptors - Answers Merkel's disks and Ruffini corpuscles are examples of ________.
smaller - Answers When surrounded by larger circles, a center circle will appear ________ than if
surrounded by smaller circles.
motivation decision model - Answers When Brad got into a minor car accident, he hopped right
out of the car to assess the damage. He didn't notice until later that night that he had a pretty
serious cut on his leg. The fact that he didn't notice is consistent with the ________.
afterimages - Answers The opponent-process theory is supported by ________.
place - Answers The fact that the base of the basilar membrane responds best to high
frequencies supports the ________ theory of hearing.
dim - Answers Light energy with very low amplitude would be perceived as ________.
they drew the hole smaller than the actual size if surrounded by larger holes - Answers What
happened when the participants were asked to draw the size of the hole in Jessica Witt's
research?
recieves incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit
information to the brain - Answers Mason has a cochlear implant. He is able to hear because
the implant
optic nerve - Answers The ________ carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
multi modal perception - Answers The idea that we perceive the world while utilizing a
combination of senses is known as ________.
subliminal processing - Answers You walk by the same billboard on the way to school each day,
but have never actually looked at it. When asked to guess which billboard it was from a
gestalt - Answers Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground
relationship, law of similarity, and proximity?
vestibular - Answers Braden has a pounding headache and is disoriented after riding a twisting
roller coaster. What sense was impacted by the ride?
the cross modal relationship between auditory speech and visual information - Answers Austin
has never met one of his work colleagues, having only interacted online or on the phone. He's
still able to pick out his coworker at a conference in a room full of people because of ________.
pinna - Answers The most visible part of the ear is the
monocular - Answers ________ cues require only one eye.
mechanoreceptors - Answers Merkel's disks and Ruffini corpuscles are examples of ________.
smaller - Answers When surrounded by larger circles, a center circle will appear ________ than if
surrounded by smaller circles.
motivation decision model - Answers When Brad got into a minor car accident, he hopped right
out of the car to assess the damage. He didn't notice until later that night that he had a pretty
serious cut on his leg. The fact that he didn't notice is consistent with the ________.
afterimages - Answers The opponent-process theory is supported by ________.
place - Answers The fact that the base of the basilar membrane responds best to high
frequencies supports the ________ theory of hearing.
dim - Answers Light energy with very low amplitude would be perceived as ________.
they drew the hole smaller than the actual size if surrounded by larger holes - Answers What
happened when the participants were asked to draw the size of the hole in Jessica Witt's
research?
recieves incoming sound information and directly stimulates the auditory nerve to transmit
information to the brain - Answers Mason has a cochlear implant. He is able to hear because
the implant
optic nerve - Answers The ________ carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
multi modal perception - Answers The idea that we perceive the world while utilizing a
combination of senses is known as ________.
subliminal processing - Answers You walk by the same billboard on the way to school each day,
but have never actually looked at it. When asked to guess which billboard it was from a
