Chapter 3 Review Questions AP Psychology

What is the apparent drifting of a tiny, constant shining light?

Autokinetic Illusion

Damage to which of the following best describes conduction deafness?

Hammer, anvil, and stirrup

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

She will have trouble locating the source of sounds.

perceiving motion in a series of lights flashing on and off is called

Phi Phenomenon

taste buds are contained in the tongue's

papillae

When we think we are touching something hot when we are touching something warm and cook is

paradoxical heat

What is the difference between an image cast on each eye as they focus on the same object?

retinal disparity

Which of the following concepts refers to the diminished sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs due to constant exposure to that stimulus?

sensory adaptation

What is the motivation we need to detect certain stimuli?

signal detection theory

Knowing that when you ascend into the air in an airplane and the cars stay the same shape is

size constancy

A motion picture (a movie) is a series of still frames. This is an example of

stroboscopic motion

Receiving message unbeknownst to a consumer prompting them to by a product

subliminal perception

Weber's law concern the relation between which of the following?

Stimulus intensity in relationship to a similar sensation

Tracey was in pain from an ear infection, which her doctor said was in her inner ear. Which of the following 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

What monocular cue sees objects in the distance as hazy and blurred?

ariel perspective

Which of the following is the correct neural impulse pathway through the retina?

rods & cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, optic nerve

Which of the following anatomical structures is involved in the vestibular sense?

semicircular canals

balance is influenced by the

semicircular canals

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

sensation

Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of interposition?

Because the chair partially obscured his view of the sofa, Brendan perceived the chair as being closer than the sofa.

Which of the following scenarios is the best example of synesthesia?

Anastasia sees swirls of color when she hears music because stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to the experience of another sensation.

What is the fluid- filled, snail shaped structure in the inner ear?

Cochlea

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

Who researched the concept of feature detectors and cells with specific visual processing?

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel

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 illustrates the opponent-process theory of color vision?

Kayla sees afterimages of opposing colors when she stares at a poster for a long time.

In a study on taste, what would researchers need to do to test participants' ability to distinguish umami from similar sensations?

Place disks soaked in MSG on the participants' tongues. Then replace those disks with disks that have been soaked in water. Compare the participants' reactions.

Human tactile sense is actually a mix of which of the following distinct skin senses?

Pressure, warmth, cold, pain

Which of the following is the correct order of the eye-to-brain pathway of vision?

Retina, optic nerve, thalamus, occipital lobe

What is the stimulation of the senses?

Sensation

Denise has damaged her auditory nerve and now has difficulty understanding what people are saying. Which of the following descriptions explains how that damage impairs her hearing?

Sound messages fail to be transmitted directly to the brain.

Which of the following 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. Which study would best allow the researcher to test the sensation of taste as people age, and what is the likely outcome?

The researcher follows the same group of people over the course of 40 years. The researcher also measures the number of the people's taste buds throughout the 40 years. The researcher finds that as people grow older, their sense of taste diminishes and their number of taste buds decreases.

Bryan 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 Bryan perceived a duck?

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

what is the height, or magnitude, or a sound wave?

amplitude

The idea that one's social environment can have an impact on pairn interpretation

biopsychosocial

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

depth perception

idea that large fibers can prevent pain impulses from reaching the brain is

gate- control theory

negative afterimages are explained by

the opponent- process theory

What is the patch of nasal membrane tissue that houses receptor cells for smell

olfactory epithelium

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?

perceptual set

When Sally says the word "seashells", it tastes like lemons. Sally has

synesthesia

Teddy got so angry over the AP Psychology test, that he crushed a soda can by looking at it

telekinesis

According to the gate control theory of pain, which of the following contains a neurological gate that controls the transmission of pain messages to the brain?

the spinal cord

pheromones are sensed by receptors in the

vomeronasal organ