2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread

[leona0123]

Question:
'Give examples of three bodily functions that decrease their activity as a result of the action of the sympathetic nervous system.'
 
This would have been easy if it was talking about the parasympathetic NS, but it's asking about the sympathetic NS (and I checked the question about 100 times to make sure). All I could think of was digestion. Help please?

[Slumdawg]

Question:
'Give examples of three bodily functions that decrease their activity as a result of the action of the sympathetic nervous system.'
 
This would have been easy if it was talking about the parasympathetic NS, but it's asking about the sympathetic NS (and I checked the question about 100 times to make sure). All I could think of was digestion. Help please?

- Decreases the number of contractions in the stomach
- Inhibits salivation
- Inhibits the release of bile from the gall bladder
- Relaxes the bladder

[burbs]

Stomach reduces in contractions, salivary glands salivate less, gall bladder inhibits release of bile, bladder and intestines relax.

EDIT: beaten

[leona0123]

Thank you both so much!

[iNerd]

Also inhibits tears.

[Darren]

Is the stroop effect needed knowledge with the new study design?

[iNerd]

Is the stroop effect needed knowledge with the new study design?

Depends on how you define 'needed'. It's just an example of automatic processes vs controlled processes.

[leona0123]

The study design says you need to know about perceptual anomalies, which includes synesthesia. It doesn't say anything specifically about the Stroop effect within synesthesia but you're probably better off to learn it anyway.

Also, I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with controlled vs automatic processes.

[iNerd]

Also, I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with controlled vs automatic processes.

I hope this doesn't come off as rude/mean but please read Chapter 2 again.

[leona0123]

In my text, it is only given as an example in the section about synesthesia which is probably good because it avoids confusion like this.

[izzykose]

Explain the charachteristics of both 'right brain' and 'left brain' thinking.  <<<<<<<<<      Is this a question referring to hemispheric specialisations, left being: verbal and analytical functions and right being: non0verbal functions that do not depend on language skills???

Or just something else entirely..

[Darren]

Yes^ I would assume so, because 'thinking' refers to basically processing.. so yeah left vs right processing.

[Glockmeister]

The study design says you need to know about perceptual anomalies, which includes synesthesia. It doesn't say anything specifically about the Stroop effect within synesthesia but you're probably better off to learn it anyway.

Also, I am fairly certain it has nothing to do with controlled vs automatic processes.

Think about it this way.

We aren't used to cal

In my text, it is only given as an example in the section about synesthesia which is probably good because it avoids confusion like this.

Well, yeah the Stroop test is an example of the differences between controlled and automatic processes. Think about it. We're used to calling an object by it's colour. When we're ask to read the words on a Stroop Test, it's a novel task.

[iNerd]

In my text, it is only given as an example in the section about synesthesia which is probably good because it avoids confusion like this.

Which text?

I'm puzzled by how you find that 'good' considering you have a gaping hole of knowledge in regards to different types of processing.

Synesthesia is a perceptual anomaly and to DIAGNOSE (find out if someone has it) a visual task is used and that too something else like finding a triangle...whenever you hear Stroop Effect your instinctive thought should be automatic processes dominate.

Anyways Glockmeister has explained that - I'm just slightly concerned by your lack of interest but oh well, maybe that's 'cause I have an excessive amount of interest in the subject and keep asking 'why' to everything

[Glockmeister]

I've always preferred referring to Synaesthesia (let's not be American here and actually use the ae) as a perceptual difference, rather than an anomaly. This is for a number of reasons, one of which is that synaesthesia is actually rather common, compared to what has been previously thought and doesn't seem to cause harm to much people (Simner et al., 2006).

References:
Simner et al. (2006) Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experience. Perception, 35(, 1024 -1033. doi: 10.1068/p5469.