Potential Questions: UNIT 3 AP PSYCH

By placing disks soaked in MSG on the participants' tongues, then replacing those disks with disks that have been soaked in water and then compare the participants reactions, what is being researched

A participant's ability to distinguish umami from similar sensations

Dr. Ramen recruited 100 adults to participate in her study. The taste buds of each participant were measured, and the participants tasted a number of foods. She found there was a relationship between the size of a participant's taste buds and the number of foods that a participant could taste. What research method did Dr. Ramen use, and what was she most likely studying?

Correlational; the sensitivity of supertasters

Human tactile sense is actually a mix of what distinct skin senses?

Pressure, warmth, cold, and pain

Marlene had an infection that led to deafness in her left ear. What will be the most likely impact of losing her hearing in her left ear?

She'll have trouble locating the source of sounds

Denise has damaged her auditory nerve and now has difficulty understanding what people are saying. What explains how that damage impairs her hearing?

Sound messages fail to be transmitted directly to the brain

What is the best definition for absolute threshold

The lowest strength of a stimulus that a person can detect 50% of the time

A researcher wants to study the human sense of taste over a life span. The researcher has a group of participants taste foods that are salty, bitter, sweet, sour, and umami. What study would best allow the researcher to test the sensation of taste as people age and what is likely the outcome?

The researcher follows and measures the number of people's taste buds throughout 40 years. The researcher is likely to find out that as people grow older, their sense of taste diminishes and their number of taste buds decrease

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

Top-down processing

Grant has more difficulty recognizing a penguin as a bird than he does a blue jay; what effect is this

an effect of schema on perception

Kimmie stood on the sidewalk rather than crossing the street because she saw that the approaching car was quite close to her. What concept is best illustrated in this example?

depth perception

Because the chair partially obscured his view of the sofa, Brendan perceived the chair as being closer than the sofa; what concept is this

interposition

Helena did not recognize her English teacher when she unexpectedly saw him while traveling in Paris, even though she knew him well back in the classroom. The fact that Helena can recognize her teacher back home more easily than in Paris best demonstrates what concept?

perpetual set

What is the correct order of the eye-to-brain pathway of vision

retina, optic nerve, thalamus, and occipital lobe

What anatomical structure is involved in the vestibular sense

semicircular canals

What is the process of detecting environmental stimuli and converting them into signals that can be detected by the nervous system

sensation

What concept refers to diminished sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs due to constant exposure to that stimulus

sensory adaptation

Anastasia sees swirls of color when she hears music because stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to the experience of another sensation; what is this an example of

synesthesia

Tracey was in pain from an ear infection, which her doctor said was in her inner ear. Where is the most likely location of the infection?

the cochlea

Orville is talking with his friends at a cafeteria table when suddenly he is distracted by hearing his name at a neighboring table. Orville's shift of attention most clearly illustrates which psychological concept?

the cocktail party phenomenon

Kayla sees afterimages of opposing colors when she stares at a poster for a long time; what theory does this present

the opponent-process theory of color vision

According to the gate control theory of pain, what contains a neurological gate that contains the transmission of pain messages to the brain

the spinal cord