AP Psychology- Perception Scenarios

Front

Experiment which was aimed to test infant ability to detect depth using a glass platform with a checkerboard underneath at different heights. Majority of the infants refused to cross the cliff.

Back

Visual Cliff Experiment

Front

What movement in psychology emphasizes the importance of whole patterns and not their individual components, and provided the foundation for the modern study of perception?

Back

Gestalt Psychology

Answer explanation

Gestalt Psychology is defined as "a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasizes the processing of entire patterns and configurations"

Front

In the scenario in which someone is whispering twenty feet away, and they are heard half the time

Back

Absolute Threshold

Answer explanation

Absolute Threshold is defined as "the minimum amount of stimulation required to trigger a reaction or produce a sensation usually defined as half the time"

Front

The feeling of a new sensory input such as feeling the first drops of rain or the hum of the air conditioner.

Back

Stimulus

Front

In the scenario where it is harder to detect a candle flame 30 miles away half the time in the case of fatigue or distress, they are proving…

Back

Signal Detection Theory

Answer explanation

Signal Detection Theory is defined as "human performance in many tasks is limited by variability in the internal representation of stimuli due to internal or external distraction"

Front

In the case where an advertising image is flashed too fast for a persons conscious mind to notice, but is captured by their unconscious mind

Back

Subliminal Stimulation

Answer explanation

Subliminal Stimulation is defined as "stimulation that is below the threshold intensity required to elicit a response"

Front

When a person is more likely to react to a commercial that doubles in volume suddenly than a commercial that slowly increases in volume.

Back

Weber's Law

Answer explanation

Weber's Law is defined as "the magnitude needed to detect physical change in a stimulus is proportional to the absolute magnitude of that stimulus. Thus, the more intense the stimulus, the greater the change that must be made in it to be noticed."

Front

When, at a party, you hear one person's voice above a thousand others, you are exemplifying,

Back

Selective Attention

Answer explanation

Selective Attention is defined as "concentration on certain stimuli in the environment and not on others, enabling important stimuli to be distinguished from peripheral or incidental ones"

Front

In the case when you first learn to drive a car and you are learning how the gas, wheel, and pedals work, you are using…

Back

Bottom-up Processing

Answer explanation

Bottom-up Processing is defined as "information processing in which incoming stimulus data initiate and determine the higher level processes involved in their recognition, interpretation, and categorization"

Front

In the case when you use previous knowledge to figure out visual illusions, you are using…

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Top Down Processing

Answer explanation

Top Down Processing is defined as "information processing in which an overall hypothesis about or general conceptualization of a stimulus is applied to and influences the analysis of incoming stimulus data"