AP PSYCH UNIT 3
Cones are:
retinal receptors that detect color and fine detail
Drivers detect traffic signals more slowly is they are also conversing on a cell phone. This best illustrates the impact of:
selective attention
The human vestibular sense is most commonly associated with
semicircular canals
Drivers sometimes over estimate the distance between their own vehicle and pedestrians who are short because they rely on a cue known as:
relative size
The impact of boredom and fatigue on people's absolute threshold is highlighted by:
Signal detection theory
The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining the characteristics of
afterimages
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
monocular cue is to__ as binocular cue is to__.
texture gradient; convergence
Which of the following is the correct sequence of anatomical structure through which an auditory stimulus passes before its perceived as sound?
Auditory canal, eardrum, ossicles, oval window, cochlea
The outermost layer of the eye that protects it while also focusing light waves known as the:
Cornea
Seeing the whole image above is not the same as seeing the sum of its parts comes from psychology called
Gestalt
The mechanical vibrations triggered by sound waves are transduced into neural impulses by:
Hair cells
Ana injured her eye in an accident and has to wear a patch over the eye while it heals. Which if the following cues would she be best able to use to make judgements about the distance objects are from her?
Linear perspective
Joe Wilson, age 55, has been told by experts that a hearing aid would restore his lost sense of hearing, It is likely that Joe's hearing loss involves problems within the:
Middle ear
The brain's ability to make sense of color, depth, movement, and form simultaneously is called:
Parallel processing
What is umami?
The newest taste that describes a savory, meaty flavor
Scott lost his vision at a young age. When he was much older, he received a corneal transplant that allowed him to see again. After so many years of not being able to see, he had a very difficult time interpreting visual information such as faces and expressions. His visual problems most likely came from processing difficulties in the
Visual cortex
The size of the difference threshold is greater for heavier objects than for lighter ones. This best illustrates
Webers law
Which theory maintains that the eye has three types of cones (red, green, and blue) that are responsible for humans to see the visible light spectrum?
Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory
Retinal disparity is:
a binocular cue caused by the varying distance between your two eyes that creates two distinct fields of vision
convergence is:
a binocular cue that involves the inward strain of eye muscles
The minimum intensity at which a stimulus can be detected at least 50 percent of the time is known as the
absolute threshold
visual information is processed by ganglion cells
after it is processed by rods and cones and after it is processed by bipolar cells
One year old Marcus turns away in disgust if a bitter substance is placed on this tounge. The reason for such a reaction is most likely
an inborn distaste for bitter that protects us from potential poisons in the envirpnment
Feature detectors
are nerve calls in a brain visual cortex that fire in response to specific edges, lines, and angles.
Which of the following is a possible reason why cats can see better at night than humans?
cats have a higher proportion of rods to cones
Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the:
cerebellum
When organizing information to provide a meaningful perception the brain will fill the gaps of things that are not there in order to complete the perception. This is a illustration of:
closure
The coiled tube in the inner ear that contains the auditory receptors is called the
cochlea
The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to the:
cochlea
After a horrific car accident Jenny suffered from conduction hearing loss. Which of the following best describes why she can no longer hear?
damage to mechanical system
The cocktail party effect is your ability to selectively attend to one voice among many. This ability also illustrates the Gestalt principle of
figure and ground
Intensity is to brightness as wavelength is to:
frequency
Which of the following theories most accurately explains pitch perception?
frequency; place(11 and III only)
Which theory suggests that we have naturally produced opioid-peptides that block ability for substance P to transmit pain signals?
gate control theory
Morgan and her friend attended a punk rock concert over the weekend. As the band began to play Morgan recognized the song as her favorite one. As the song continued noise and cheers of the people around her grew louder. The measurement of the point in which Morgan noticed a difference in how loud those around her were being known as:
just noticeable difference
The sensory experience of bending ones knees or raising ones arms exemplifies:
kinesthesis
After light passes through the pupil it is focused on the retina by the:
lens
The phi phenomenon is when:
lights blink in rapid succession and produce the illusion of movement
As Raj painted a picture for his art class he was careful to add depth to his painting by making his river more narrow towards the top part of the canvas. This illustrates:
linear perspective- A monocular cue that uses converging parallel lines to determine distance
Every day Matt drove to school his listened to his radio in the car. When he heard a song he liked he would turn the music up as high as it would go and sing at the top of his lungs. His brain was aware of the increase in volume because:
more hairs on the basilar membrane were triggered which sent more neural impulses to the brain at one time
a person who puts on inverted goggles will eventually be able to function normally because of:
perceptual adaptation
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
The number of complete sound waves that strike ones eardrum in a given second determines the ________ of the sound
pitch
Which theory states that we hear different pitches because different parts of the cochlea's basilar membrane
place theory
What is the proper process of how we interpret smell?
sense receptors in the nose send neural signals to the olfactory bulb
Because Rivers olfactory bulb is near his hippocampus what he___ is closely liked to his __.
smells; memory
We tend to perceive more pain when others around us also report feeling pain. This research findings indicates that pain perception is affected by both biological and what other influences?
socio-cultural
The intensity of what you see are determined by:
the amplitude of the wave
Gibson and Walk are famous for determining that by the tome a species is mobile, it has all the perception abilities it needs in order to survive. They determined that crawling infants have depth perception using the ____, a platform with a perceived drop at one end
visual cliff