AP Psychology Sensation & Perception

Anne is in a classroom with a buzzing overhead light. She thinks that it will annoy her for the entire class, but ten minutes later when Chris mentions if she realizes that she had stopped noticing the buzzing. Explain how this happened.

• Weber's Law

• Just Noticeable Difference

• Sensory Adaptation

• Nerve Deafness

Infants who were reluctant to crawl across a visual cliff during an experiment demonstrated that they had already developed ___________________.

• Sensory Adaptation

• Depth Perception

• Encoding

• Bottom-up processing

Sensation is the _____________________ by which our senses, like vision, hearing and smell, receive and relay outside information.

• Top down process

• bottom up process

• minimum stimulation

• feature detectors

Identify letter B on the eye diagram.

• Cornea

• Iris

• Pupil

• Lens

Which of the following is the correct order of the structures through which light passes after entering the eye?

• Lens, pupil, cornea, retina

• Pupil, cornea, lens, retina

• Cornea, retina, pupil, lens

• Cornea, pupil, lens, retina

The Young-Helmholtz Theory proposes that:

• There are three different types of color-sensitive cones

• Retinal cells are excited by one color and inhibited by its complementary color

• There are four different types of cones

• Rods, not cones, vision accounts for our ability to detect fine visual detail

The brain breaks vision into separate dimensions such as color, depth, movement and form, and works on each aspect simultaneously. This is known as:

• Feature detection

• Parallel processing

• Accommodation

• Opponent processing

Sound "loudness" is measured in the unit of ______________.

• Decibels

• Hertz

• Wavelength

• Pitch

Which of the following correctly lists the order of structures through which sound travels after entering the ear?

• Auditory canal, eardrum, middle ear, cochlea

• Eardrum, auditory canal, middle ear, cochlea

• Eardrum, middle ear, cochlea, auditory canal

• Auditory canal, middle ear, eardrum, cochlea

The four touch sensation are pressure, warmth, cold and ___________.

• Pain

• Kinesthesis

• Vestibular

• Balance