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12thgrade
AP Psych Unit #3: Sensation & Perception
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?
Somatosensory Cortex
Frontal Lobe
Thalamus
Medulla
- 2. Multiple Choice
The conversion of one form of energy to another is called
Parapsychology
Retinal Disparity
Transduction
Transitionary Processing
- 3. Multiple ChoiceBeing able to see a candle flame 30 miles away on a clear night is theabsolute threshold for human visiondifference threshold for human vision.perceived threshold for human visionratio threshold for human vision
- 4. Multiple Choice1. Sensation is to __________ as perception is to __________.Recognizing a stimulus; detecting a stimulusDetecting a stimulus; recognizing a stimulusInterpreting a stimulus; detecting a stimulusSeeing; hearing
- 5. Multiple Choice
The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.
Absolute threshold
range threshold
difference threshold
just-noticeable difference
- 6. Multiple Choice
The process of bringing meaning to the raw data your senses take in is called ________.
perception
sensation
adaptation
habituation
- 7. Multiple Choice
The lowest stimuli intensity required for detection is the ______ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ______.
absolute threshold; just noticeable difference
base value; just noticeable difference
response criterion; sensory constant
just noticeable difference; absolute threshold
- 8. Multiple Choice
While waiting in line at Starbucks, Nick was playing games on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of...
Inattentional Blindness
Change Blindness
Choice Blindness
Signal Detection Theory
- 9. Multiple Choice
Although Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.
absolute threshold
tolerance level
gustatory saturation level
adaptation level
- 10. Multiple Choice
Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of other's behavior. This best illustrates the impact of
retinal disparityinterpositiontop-down processingperceptual adaptation - 11. Multiple ChoiceIf you move your watchband up your inch or so, you will feel it only for a few moments. This best illustrates:
Signal Detection Theory
Selective Attention
Sensory Adaptation
Weber's Law - 12. Multiple Choice
What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?
Sensation
Perception
Illusion
Sensory adaptation
- 13. Multiple Choice
The smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected between two stimuli in known as
Sensory Adaptation
Absolute Threshold
Difference Threshold
Weber's Law
- 14. Multiple Choice
The principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference (in a constant proportion).
Sensory adaptation
Absolute threshold
Difference threshold
Weber's Law
- 15. Multiple Choice
Texting and driving is a major cause of car accidents in the modern day. Which academic term that we discussed defines this inability to focus on texting and driving at simultaneously?
Perceptual Set
Selective Attention
Absolute Threshold
Change Blindness
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is another way to say bottom-up processing?
Signal Detecting Theory
Perception
Absolute Threshold
Sensation
- 17. Multiple Choice
What part of the ear is lined with hair cells?
Semicircular Canals
Cochlea
Ear Drum
Ossicles
- 18. Multiple Choice
After listening to your high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates
Change Blindness
Weber's Law
Sensory Adaptation
Absolute Threshold
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is our kinesthesis sense?
The ability to feel no pain/touch
Deals with actual movements, like lifting a finger
The ability to percieve info without sensation
Deals with our sense of balance
- 20. Multiple Choice
What receptor allows humans to see better in low or dim light?
Rods
Cones
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not one of out 5 basic taste sensations?
Sweet
Bitter
Starch
Salty
- 22. Multiple Choice
What sense can often evoke pleasant memories?
Bright colors
Loud sounds
Fragrant odors
Familiar touch
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a quote that shows the Gestalt principles?
“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
"Illusions are in the eye of the beholder."
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
“Humans see what they want to see.”
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat part of the eye allows us to see color?conesrodsiriseyeball
- 25. Multiple Choice
What part of the eye gathers information about color, shape, and size of what is being looked at and sends it to the optic nerve?
Iris
RetinaSchlera
Cornea
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhere does the optic nerve take the visual information?To the Thalamus and then to the Occipital Lobeto the Hippocampus and then to the Occipital Lobeto the Hypothalamus and then to the Occipital Lobeto the Cerebellum and then to the Occipital Lobe
- 27. Multiple Choice
The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors (Red, Green, and Blue) is known as the
Young Helmholtz Trichromatic TheoryGate-Control Theory
Place TheoryGestalt Principle
- 28. Multiple ChoiceThe process where stimuli is converted into a neural signal, then send to the brain:perceptionsensationconductiontransduction
- 29. Multiple Choice
Diamond went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the water because it was cold. Diamond jumped in and after a few minutes declared it was cold when she first got in but then her body got used to it. Diamond's body got accustomed to the water due to
her perceptual set.
absolute threshold.
selective attention.
sensory adaptation.
- 30. Multiple ChoicePitch depends on which of the following?
number of hair cells stimulated in the cochlea.
amplitude of the sound wave.
decibels of the soundwave.
number of soundwaves (wavelength) that reach the ear in a given time.
- 31. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is the best example of sensory interaction?
Finding that food taste bland when you have a stuffy nose.
Finding it difficult to maintain your balance when you have an ear infection.
Finding that cold water doesn't feel so cold after a while.
Struggling to see when there is little light in a room.
- 32. Multiple Choice
Our sense of smell may be a powerful trigger for memories because
olfaction messages skip the thalamus and go straight to the olfactory bulb, which is connected to the hippocampus.
We are taught as children to connect smells with important events.
The thalamus sends all olfaction messages straight to the hippocampus.
our nose is parallel with the both the limbic system and olfactory cortex.
- 33. Multiple Choice
The cochlea is responsible for transduction,
transmitting vibrations received by the eardrum to the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
transforming vibrations into neural signals.
coordinating impulses from the rods and cones in the retina.
sending messages to the brain about orientation of the head and body.
- 34. Multiple Choice
What is the principal difference between amplitude and frequency in the context of sound waves?
Amplitude is the sound or timbre of a sound, whereas frequency is the pitch.
Amplitude is detected in the cochlea, whereas frequency is detected in the auditory cortex.
Amplitude is the height of the sound wave, whereas frequency is a measure of how frequently the sound waves pass a given point.
Frequency is a measure for light waves, whereas amplitude is a measure for sound waves.
- 35. Multiple Choice
What function does the retina serve?
The retina contains the visual receptor cells.
The retina focuses light coming in the eyes through the lens.
The retina determines how much light is let into the eye.
The retina determines which rods and cones will be activated by incoming light.
- 36. Multiple ChoiceOlfaction refers to which sense?SmellTasteTouchSight
- 37. Multiple ChoiceWhich taste was most recently discovered?sourbittersaltyumami
- 38. Multiple Choicetrue or false. Smell and taste are both chemical senses,truefalse
- 39. Multiple Choice
Short wavelength =
low frequency, low pitchhigh frequency, high pitch - 40. Multiple Choicelong wavelength =low frequency, low pitchhigh frequency, high pitch
- 41. Multiple Choice
The pitch we hear is related to the place where the cochlea's basilar membrane is stimulated. This is known as
Place TheoryFrequency TheoryVolley PrincipleWeber's Law
- 42. Multiple Choice
The name of the opening in your eye through which light waves enter
Pupil
Iris
Lens
Retina
- 43. Multiple Choice
Hue (color) is determined by _____________ while intensity is determined by ________________
light waves, accommodation
amplitude, wavelength
wavelength, amplitude
accommodation, light waves
- 44. Multiple Choice
Sensing the position and movement of your individual body parts is an example of which sense?
kinestheticgustatory
auditoryolfactory - 45. Multiple Choice
This theory states that we can lessen some pains by shifting our attention away from pain impulses.
Withdrawal Reflex
Sensory Deprivation
Gate-Control Theory
Sensory Adaptation
- 46. Multiple Choice
When a person rubs an elbow after smacking it into a table, that person is
creating competition between pain and non-pain neural messages.
activating the kinesthetic sense, which confuses the thalamus.
Limits the number of afferent neurons that send neural messages.
forced to due to reflexes messages via interneurons in the spinal cord.
- 47. Multiple ChoiceHEARING is also known as our ____________SENSE.
olfactory
auditoryvestibulargustatory
- 48. Multiple ChoiceCoiled, snail shaped structure of the inner ear filled with fluid. When the fluid moves because of sound waves, the cilia move and activate neurons to send message down the auditory nerve.cochleapinna
ossicles
semicircular canals
- 49. Multiple ChoiceThree tube like structures that contain fluid and are linked to our balance and coordination abilities.semi-circular canalsossicles
cochlea
auditory canal
- 50. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the process of converting stimuli to neural signals?Top-down processingSensationBottom-up processingTransduction
- 51. Multiple Choice
Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea is known as
frequency theoryconduction hearing losssensorieneural hearing losscochlear implant - 52. Multiple Choice
A hearing impairment caused by lesions or dysfunction of the cochlea or auditory nerve is known as
frequency theoryconduction hearing losssensorieneural hearing losscochlear implant - 53. Multiple Choice
A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea is called
frequency theoryconduction hearing losssensorieneural hearing lossa cochlear implant
- 54. Multiple ChoiceAs the football game continued into the night, Leondre noticed that he was having difficulty distinguishing the colors of the players' uniforms. This is because the _______________, which enable color vision, have a _______________ absolute threshold for brightness than the available light intensity.Rods; higherCones; higherRods; lowerCones; lower
- 55. Multiple Choice
Which sense works together with our sense of smell (olfaction)?
taste
sight
hearing
touch
- 56. Multiple Choice
What happens first when you smell something?
Your limbic system is activated
receptors send a message directly to your olfaction cortex in the brain
particles stick to the mucus in your nose
you breathe chemical molecules into your nose
- 57. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT a sensory receptor for gustation?SourSpicyUmamiSweet
- 58. Multiple Choice
What are the bumps on the top of your tongue called?
Papillae
Taste Buds
Sclera
Bulbs
- 59. Multiple Choice
Papillae on your tongue contain
Saliva glands
Lingual tonsils
Taste buds
Lymph nodes
- 60. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Umami?a savory tasteangry tasteHot tastespicy
- 61. Multiple Choice
A sense receptor that responds to tissue damage (pain)
photoreceptor
nociceptor
proprioceptor
chemoreceptor
- 62. Multiple Choice
A sense receptor that responds to temperature changes
thermoreceptor
mechanoreceptor
chemoreceptor
velociraptor
- 63. Multiple Choice
The process by which a painful stimulus is sent from the site of stimulation to the central nervous system is called
Kinaesthesia
Nociception
Olfaction
Reflexes
- 64. Multiple Choice
The Trichromatic Color Theory states that we have cone receptors for which 3 colors?
blue, green, red
yellow, red, blue
orange, green, violet
red, violet, yellow
- 65. Multiple Choice
A person who has deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness) would
only be able to see the colors green and red.
Can only see blue.
see red and green with more intensity.
struggle distinguishing between the colors red and green.
- 66. Multiple Choice
Being so focused on a task that you fail to notice an unexpected event is known as
Inattentional Blindness
Choice Blindness
Change Blindness
Signal Detection
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