AP Psychology Exam Review 4

Question 0

As the brain receives information about the lines, angles, and edges of objects in the environment, higher-level cells process and interpret the information to consciously recognize objects. This process best illustrates

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Perception

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If we see two of the same object but one of them appears to be dimmer, we will interpret the dimmer objects as father away. What is this monocular cue for depth called?

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Light and shadow

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Color constancy refers to the fact that

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Objects are perceived to be the same color even if the light they reflect changes

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Damage to the hammer, anvil, and stirrup is most likely to cause

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Conduction hearing loss

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The pitch of a sound is determined by

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The frequency of the sound wave

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The green colored ham and eggs had such a strange appearance that they tasted terrible to Sam. This illustrates the importance of..

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Sensory interaction

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Proximity

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The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other

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Young Helmholtz theory

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The retina contains three kinds of color receptors

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Who emphasized that the whole may exceed the sum of its parts

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Gestalt psychologists

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Oh experiences, assumptions, and expectations may give us a perceptual set that influences what we perceive. This is an example of…

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Top down processing

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Transduction

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The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses

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Weber’s law

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The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived

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The cocktail party effect

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The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time

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The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the…

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Absolute threshold

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Objects are brought into focus on the retina by changes in the curvature and thickness of the…

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Lens

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After listening to your high volume car stereo for 15 minutes you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates…

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Sensory adaptation

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Which theory best explains how we perceive low pitched sounds

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Frequency theory

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Although Manuel was sitting right next to his parents, he smelled a skunk minutes before they did. Apparently Manuel has a lower… For skunk odor than his parents have

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Olfactory saturation level

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Photographs of people were rated more positively if the photos immediately followed a briefly flashed image of kittens. This best illustrates the impact of…

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Priming

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Trying to see a hidden representational image in a piece of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual

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Bottom up processing

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Diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is know as…

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Sensory adaptation

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The classic gate control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the…

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Spinal cord

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Which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light?

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Cones

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What is the afterimage of red

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Green

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One of the ways we perceive images is by organizing stimuli into an object seen against its surroundings. What is this perceptual tendency called?

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Figure ground

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After losing his left hand in an accident, Jack continued to experience pain in his nonexistent hand. His experience illustrates...

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Phantom limb sensations

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With her eyes closed, Sierra can accurately touch her mouth, nose, and chin with her index finger. This represents the importance of...

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Kinesthesis

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The fact that people who are colorblind to red and green may still see yellow is most easily explained by the...

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Opponent process theory

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Blind spot

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The area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye

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Experiments with the visual close suggest that

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The ability to perceive depth is at least partly innate

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Change blindness

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The failure to notice a change

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Dilation and constriction of the pupil are controlled by the...

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Iris

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Olfactory receptor cells are essential for our sense of...

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Smell

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Light wave amplitude determines the...

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Intensity of colors

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When two adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession, we perceive a single light moving back and forth between the. This is called...

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The phi phenomenon

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The quick succession of briefly flashed images in a motion picture produces...

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Stroboscopic movement

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Current research suggest what about the trichromatic and opponent process theories

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Both are valid in explaining color and vision

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Feature detectors

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Nerve cells in the brain's visual cortex that fire in response to specific edges lines and angles

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Is retinal disparity a monocular or binocular cue of distance

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Binocular

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Transduction

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The process by which our sensory systems convert stimulus energies into neural messages

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Depth perception that uses information transmitted to only one eye depends on...

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Monocular cues

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In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a video tape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrates...

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Inattentional blindness

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As you look at an apple, it's reflected light travels to the eye. The rods and cones absorb the light and help transmit the information to the brain. The illustrates...

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Sensation

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Experiencing a green afterimage of a red object is most easily explained by the...

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Opponent process theory

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The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as...

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Linear perspective

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Perceptual set

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Mental predisposition that influences what we perceive

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Pedestrians are more likely to cross a street unsafely if they are talking on a cell phone. This illustrates...

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Selective attention

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Your mental tendency to fill in the last word of a common phrase illustrates...

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Closure

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Which theory emphasizes that personal expectations and motivations influence the level of absolute thresholds

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Place theory