ap psych unit 3

when rosa has a cold, she cannot taste the flavor of her pizza. which of the following psychological terms describe Rosa's inability to taste?

sensory interaction

which of the following scenarios best demonstrates a context effect

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

ernst weber's and gustav fechner's psychophysical laws concern the relation between which of the following?

The intensity of a stimulus and its corresponding psychological sensation.

The intensity at which a sound becomes audible for a given individual is known as the individual's

absolute threshold

which of the following scenarios most clearly describes the effects of a strong kinesthetic sense

being able to tell exact bodily position without looking at the body

Even though it was nearly dark outside, Kaci could still tell that the basketball she was playing with was orange. Which of the following concepts is best illustrated in this example?

interposition

which of the following is true about the blind spot in the eye

it occurs where the optic nerve leaves the eye

in visual perception, size constancy occurs as an object comes closer to the viewer because the

perceived distance of the object becomes smaller

in vision, transduction occurs within the

retina

As you watch a friend walk away from you, your retinal image of your friend gets smaller. Despite this, you do not perceive him to be shrinking. This is an example of

size constancy

The thalamus processes information for all of the following senses EXCEPT

smell

climbing an irregular set of stairs is more difficult for an individual who wears a patch over one eye primarily because

some depth perception is lost

Gustatory receptors are sensitive to all of the following taste qualities EXCEPT

spicy

research has shown that a major reason for poor performance while multitasking is that while multitasking, people

switch their attention rapidly from task to task, so they miss critical information associated with a task that is not receiving their attention

a reason that one typically does not notice a blind spot in the visual field is that

the brain fills in missing information so there is no awareness that the visual field is incomplete

Domingo has just hit Play to begin listening to a new song he bought. Based on the structure of the ear, what will the sound waves contact first after moving through Domingo's auditory canal?

the eardrum

which of the following refers to the transformation of stimulus energy into neural impulses?

transduction

The general function of the bones in the middle ear is to

transfer sound information from the tympanic membrane to the oval window

which of the following is an example of shape constancy?

Even though the angle from which she viewed the table had changed, Elise still perceived the table as rectangular.

Latisha noticed that in the early evening she begins to have difficulty seeing the vibrant colors in her artwork. Which of the following best explains her difficulty?

Her cones cannot detect color well in dim light.

Hyrum is at a concert when a flute player hits a very high note at the end of a song. Which of the following best explains why the pitch of the note sounds so high?

It has a short wavelength and high frequency.

Which of the following is the correct path a neural impulse will follow through the different layers of the retina?

Rods and cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

drugs that block the reabsorption of serotonin neurotransmitters in the synapse during neural transmission are

SSRIs

the change in curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called

accommodation

When struck by light energy, cones and rods in the retina generate neural signals that then activate the

bipolar cells

how the human eye detects the color red?

it relies on only cones

The tendency of most people to identify a three-sided figure as a triangle, even when one of its sides is incomplete, is the result of a perceptual process known as

closure

the gestalt principle that refers to an individuals tendency to perceive an incomplete figure as a whole is called

closure

The coiled tube in the inner ear that contains the auditory receptors is called the

cochlea

which of the following refers to the photoreceptors responsible for color vision

cones

Eleanor Gibson and her colleagues have used the visual cliff to measure an infant's ability to perceive

depth

A person is asked to listen to a series of tones presented in pairs, and asked to say whether the tones in each pair are the same or different in pitch. In this situation the experimenter is most likely measuring the individual's

difference threshold

Ana injured her eye in an accident and has to wear a patch over the eye while it heals. Which of the following cues would she best be able to use to make judgments about the distance objects are from her?

linear perspective

The reversible figure above illustrates the Gestalt organizing principle of

figure-ground

Which of the following is the best example of the opponent process theory?

fred stares at a green book for a minute, and then when he looks at a white page, he sees the color red.

damage to which of the following best explains conduction deafness?

hammer, anvil, and stirrup

the pitch of a sound is analogous to which of the following features of light

hue

Receptors for olfaction are located

in the nasal cavity

A sound is often detected by one ear more intensely and a fraction of a second earlier than it is detected by the other ear. These cues help individuals determine the

location of the source

The fovea has the greatest visual acuity in bright light because the fovea is

made up of only cones

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel's research on responses of the brain to visual stimuli showed that

many cortical cells respond most strongly to specific visual information

which of the following in a binocular cue for depth perception

retinal disparity

An individual's ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded room is called

selective attention

laura arrives at a park that is located very close to a factory that produces cookies. she immediately notices the strong odor of chocolate chip cookies, but after a while she no longer detects the smell of the cookies. this can best be explained by which of the following?

sensory adaption

When a pair of lights flashing in quick succession seems to an observer to be one light moving from place to place, the effect is referred to as

the phi phenomenon

Luz, a math major, sees the drawing above as a Venn diagram. Her brother, an art major, sees it as two circles. The difference in perception is an example of

top-down processing