Answering 5 short answer questions

Each question will not be longer than 300 words
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Question 1:
Describe how visual information gets from the left visual field to the primary visual cortex
(v1) using the Geniculo-Striate Pathway. Describe the pathway(s) the information takes. You
do not need to describe how the information is processed.

Question 2:
You have been introduced to different research methods used in physiological psychology.
For each of the scenarios below, which would be the most appropriate method to use and
why?
S1: Looking for a specialised area that is responsible for encoding ends of lines.
S2: Looking for damaged area after a head injury
S3: Studying the process of planning motor movements.
S4: Study memory before and after disrupting the hippocampus
S5: Wanting to study the synchronisation of different brain regions

Question 3:
Give an example of each of the following types of learning:
• Perceptual
• stimuli-response learning
• motor learning,
• relational learning
as they might occur when teaching a child how to play soccer.

Question 4:
Sound travels faster in the water than in the air. First, explain how humans localise sound.
Second, explain if low-frequency sounds are easier or harder to locate underwater and why.

Question 5:
How could you use double dissociation methodology to show that the processing of
emotionally “hot” stimuli is processed differently than emotionally “cold” stimuli in non-
impaired individuals? Explain what advantages a double dissociation method would provide
over single dissociation in this situation.