unit 3 progress check ap psych
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
the process of detecting environmental stimuli and converting them into signals that can be detected by the nervous system
sensation
refers to the diminished sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs due to constant exposure to that stimulus
sensory adaptation
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
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 anatomical structures is involved in the vestibular sense?
semicircular canals
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
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
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
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.
example of the concept of interposition
because the chair partially obscured his view of the soda, brendan perceived the chair as being closer than the sofa
example of the most predictable effect of schemas on perception
grant has more difficulty recognizing a penguin as a bird than he does a blue jay (blue jays manifest more elements of the "bird" schema than penguins)
example of the opponent process theory of color vision
kayla sees afterimages of opposing colors when she stares at a poster for a long time
four direct skin senses
pressure, warmth, cold, pain
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 (orville is generally filtering out the other conversations, but salient information still gets through and gains his attention)
the best definition for absolute threshold
the lowest strength of a stimulus that a person can detect 50% of the time
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 suck was influenced by past experience
correct order of the eye to brain pathway of vision
retina, optic nerve, thalamus, occipital lobe