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While at a crowded gathering, Zach realized that his attention was being drawn away from his conversation every time a person nearby said the word "exactly." Zach's response is an example of

Correct answer: the cocktail party effect

sensory thresholds.

The effect of prior experience and current expectations on perception best illustrates the importance of

As Lucy and her little brother looked up at the clouds, he exclaimed, "That one looks like a giant dinosaur!" Lucy thought it looked more like a giant duck. Which of the following concepts best explains their different interpretations of the same ambiguous stimuli?

perceptual set

Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to _____ as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to _____.

sensation; perception

After spending hours in her kitchen preparing dinner, Rebecca no longer notices the strong smell of garlic until her guests arrive and mention the smell. Her failure to notice the smell of garlic illustrates

sensory adaptation

Which of the following best illustrates the most predictable effect of schemas on perception?

Grant has more difficulty recognizing a penguin as a bird than he does a blue jay.

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates a context effect?

Jeannette does better on her exam when she takes it in the same room where she studies.

Jason is attending a parade that features the local high school band. Jason's friend Brent plays the trombone in the band. It is difficult for Jason to hear Brent play at the parade. Which of the following would best allow Jason to hear Brent's trombone?

Sensory adaptation

Ryan perceived a duck instead of other animals when viewing an ambiguous image because he watched a documentary about ducks the previous night. Which of the following best explains why Ryan perceived a duck?

Top-down processing, because his perception of the duck was influenced by past experience.

Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to

a perceptual set.

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 process?

bottom up processing

Researchers found that 40% of people focused on repeating a list of challenging words failed to notice changes in the person speaking. This best illustrates

change blindness

Although Veronica sees her AP Psych teacher several times a week, she didn't recognize the teacher when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrates the importance of

context effects

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

priming.

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

transduction.