Name:______Do Thi Huyen Trang___________________________
Mid-Term Exam
Intro to Psychology Class (KTTC20-E4)
October 2021
1) You read the title of a science article stating: “Drinking Red Wine Shows to
Increase Intelligence”. What conclusions, if any, can you come to about this
article?
Wine drinking requires first sniffing, then swilling the wine on the different
side of your mouth. This activity is a complex motor process involving
several areas of the brain. The researcher covers the connection between
interpreting wine flavors and the brain in detail in his book “Neuroenology:
How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine.”
The unique ways our brain processes the tatse of wine to the way we process
colors. According to neuroscientists, no two people see color exactly the
same. Objects themselves do not have color but are “colored” based on the
way the light hits our eyes. Do you remember the picture circulating a few
years back of the dress that was either black and blue or white and gold?
Well, it’s a perfect example of people seeing the same thing but their eyes
process the reflected light differently.
The same things happens when we drink wine. The molecules of the wine
actually trigger several different interpretations of the taste, and your brain
determines the taste you truly experience.
For an example of the dress in the wine world, look no further than the
tannins found in wine. Some people may be more sensitive to the taste of
