AP Psych 5-7

The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called:

continuity.

Infant rats deprived of their mothers' grooming touch produce:

less growth hormone and have a lower metabolic rate.

According to the principle of light and shadow, if one of two identical objects reflects more light to your eyes it will be perceived as:

nearer.

Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for:

parallel processing.

The volley principle is most relevant to understanding how we sense:

pitch.

The illusion that the St. Louis Gateway arch appears taller than it is wide (even though its height and width are equal) is based on our sensitivity to which monocular depth cue?

relative height

Experiencing sudden pain is to _______ as recognizing that you are suffering a heart attack is to ________.

sensation; perception

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates:

sensory adaptation

The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates.

sensory interaction.

Which explanation of the Müller-Lyer illusion is offered by the text?

The corners in our carpentered world teach us to interpret outward- or inward-pointing arrowheads at the end of a line as a cue to the line's distance from us and so to its length.

The impact of boredom and fatigue on people's absolute thresholds is highlighted by:

signal detection theory.

If a visual image is first presented subliminally, the chance of a person later recognizing the same briefly presented image is improved. This best illustrates:

that information can be processed outside of conscious awareness.

REM sleep is referred to as paradoxical sleep because:

the body's muscles remain relaxed while the brain and eyes are active.

The figure-ground relationship has demonstrated that:

the same stimulus can trigger more than one perception.

Alcohol has the most profound effect on:

the transfer of experiences to long-term memory.

Our shifting perceptions of a Necker cube best illustrate the importance of:

top-down processing.

Visual information is processed by ganglion cells:

after it is processed by rods and cones and after it is processed by bipolar cells.

The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining one of the characteristics of:

afterimages.

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's:

audition

Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the:

cerebellum.

By amplifying soft sounds but not loud sounds, digital hearing aids produce

compressed sound.

Objects higher in our field of vision are perceived as ________ due to the principle of ________.

farther away; relative height

The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the:

fovea.

Hypnotic responsiveness is:

greater when people are led to expect it.