Myers, Psychology for AP Unit 4-1
Psychics are unable to make millions of dollars betting on horse races. This undermines their claims to possess the power of...
precognition
The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates the principle of...
proximity
The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of...
afterimages.
Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's...
audition.
Receptor cells for the vestibular sense send messages to the...
cerebellum.
The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually...
full when it is near the horizon
Multiple ________ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single ________ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.
rods; cone
Drivers detect traffic signals more slowly if they are talking on a cell phone. This best illustrates the impact of...
selective attention
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.
The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates...
sensory interaction.
Immanuel Kant and John Locke would have been most likely to disagree about the extent to which perception is influenced by...
cultural experience
Some stroke victims lose the capacity to perceive motion but retain the capacity to perceive shapes and colors. Others lose the capacity to perceive colors but retain the capacity to perceive movement and form. These peculiar visual disabilities best illustrate our normal capacity for...
parallel processing.
The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates...
perceptual constancy.
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.