Learning curve questions unit IV- AP PSYCH

Sensory analysis starts with the sensory receptors and works up to the integration of sensory information in the _____. This process is called bottom-up processing.

brain

When our attention is elsewhere, visual information can change. If we fail to notice the change once our attention is back on the situation, this is called _____.

change blindness

Lottie opens her eyes in the morning to see flowers by the bedside. At that point, Lottie's eyes are receiving _____ energy, which they change into neural messages for the brain to process. This conversion of one form of energy into another is called transduction.

light

Julio is working on a series of landscape paintings. He wants to create a realistic depiction of the English countryside. To turn the flat surface of the canvas into a three-dimensional painting, which technique would he use?

linear perspective

Bees can see ultraviolet light, but cannot see the color red. This means that bees cannot see _____ wavelengths

long

Smell is unique among the senses in that it will often trigger vivid _____.

memories

Infant rats deprived of their mothers' grooming touch produce less growth hormone and have a lower _____ rate.

metabolic

Eleanor suffered severe stroke damage near the rear of both sides of her brain. She is now unable to perceive _____.

movement

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 a normal capacity for:

parallel processing

Stefan has volunteered to participate in an experiment studying vision. He has agreed to wear a pair of glasses that invert his vision. Due to _____, after about a week, he is able to perform his usual tasks, like riding a bike or reading a book. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

perceptual adaptation

Between 1983 and 1987 thousands of people in New York saw a UFO in the sky. It was estimated to be between 200 and 1000 feet long and had multicolored blinking lights. The UFO sighting turned out to be a hoax. Rather than an actual UFO sighting, what viewers actually saw was a group of small planes with multicolored lights attached. The pilots would fly in formation that gave the impression of a UFO. They were even able to make it appear as though the UFO disappeared by turning off their lights simultaneously. The interpretation of the sighting was influenced by the viewers' _____.

perceptual set

People perceive an adult-child pair as looking more alike when told they are parent and child. This best illustrates the impact of _____.

perceptual set

According to the Gestalt psychologists, humans tend to group together figures that are near each other. This is called the principle of _____.

proximity

Studying the relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli (e.g., intensity) and the _____ experience of them involves the field known as psychophysics.

psychological

The adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters is called the _____.

pupil

put the following events in order

retinal processing, feature detection, parallel processing, recognition

Perceptual sets are the result of _____, which people form to organize and interpret unfamiliar information.

schemas

Change blindness is an example of _____ attention.

selective

The fact that drivers detect traffic signals more slowly if they are also conversing on a cell phone illustrates the impact of _____ attention.

selective

The _____ may all be influenced by perceptual set.

sense

Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by _____ psychologists.

Gestalt

Studying the impact of boredom and fatigue on people's _____ thresholds would involve research based on signal detection theory.

absolute

Alicia is traveling on a train. She stares out the window at a house. The sidewalk in front of the house will appear to move _____.

backward

At a large party with lots of music and conversations going on simultaneously, a person is talking to a friend. At the same time, the person hears his/her name spoken from the other side of the room. (S)he immediately looks in the direction of the voice and sees the person who spoke his/her name while conversing with another person. The ability to detect one's name being spoken in this situation is an example of the _____ effect.

cocktail party

Both perceptual set and _____ indicate how experiences help to construct perception.

context

_____ is the result of the transformation of vibrating air into nerve impulses that are interpreted by the brain.

hearing

In terms of the sensory experience of light, wavelength is to _____ as wave intensity is to _____.

hue; brightness

Pedro recognized that his son was closer to him than his daughter because his son partially obstructed his view of his daughter. Pedro's perception was most clearly influenced by a depth cue known as _____.

interposition.

The FBI is considering a new identification method. Instead of using old-fashioned fingerprints, they have decided to scan which part of the eye to confirm people's identity? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button

iris

The fact that perceptions involve more than the sum of sensations best illustrates the importance of _____ processing.

sets

Mary has worked at a factory for almost 15 years. She has noticed that many of the new workers are complaining about wrist and hand pain. Mary, too, begins to feel pain in her wrist and hand and has a growing concern that she may have carpal tunnel. Why might Mary experience this pain now?

she feels empathy for the new workers

Studying the impact of boredom and fatigue on people's absolute thresholds would involve research based on:

signal detection theory

Dr. Pence is studying perceptual set in children. When given a serving of chicken nuggets, children thought that the nuggets served in a McDonald's bag tasted much better than nuggets served in a plain bag. Dr. Pence concludes that the children's sense of ____ has been influenced.

taste

Researcher Lee and colleagues told bar patrons that they could consume a free sample of vinegar-laced beer. As expected, they stated that the vinegar-laced beer tasted worse than non-vinegar-laced beer. Their sense of ____ has been impacted by their perceptual set.

taste

How are the basilar membrane and taste bud receptors alike?

they both use hair cells to detect sensations

The fact that perception involves more than the sum of sensations best illustrates the importance of _____ processing.

top-down

The fact that perceptions involve more than the sum of sensations best illustrates the importance of _____ processing.

top-down