AP Psych Module 17 and 18

What do we call a mental predisposition which influences our interpretation of a stimulus?

• a context effect

• perceptual set

• emotion

• motivation

What do we call the specialized neurons in the optical lobe's visual cortex that respond to particular edges, lines, angles, and movements?

• Rods

• Cones

• Foveas

• Feature Detectors

What do we call the transparent protective layer that passes light through as it enters the eye?

• Pupil

• Iris

• Cornea

• Lens

Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called

• adaptive
• subliminal
• psychophysical
• subnormal

If you look at a far away street sign with first your left eye and then the right eye, the images look virtually identical. But if you look at your finger held one eye at a time, the two images look very different. This phenomenon is an example of what?

• binocular distance

• monocular cues

• linear parallax

• retinal disparity

The blind spot in the eye is

• where photoreceptor cells do not "bleach"

• the point at which ganglion cells synapse with bipolar cells

• where the optic nerve exits the back of the eye

• what leads to color blindness

The lens in the eye

• converts light energy into neural energy

• controls the amount of light entering the eye

• bends entering light rays and focuses them onto the retina

• is part of the eye that gives it its color

In bright sunlight, the pupil of the eye is

• the same size as it is in a dark room

• constricted

• dilated

• unaffected

Imagine that biologists have discovered an animal that has eyes very similar to human eyes, but that the only receptor cells in the retina are cones; there are no rods. Based on what is known about human vision you might expect that the animal might have what?

• poor visual acuity

• poor peripheral vision

• poor vision outdoors

• no color vision

Cells in the visual cortex that respond selectively to specific features of complex stimuli are called what?

• ganglion cells

• feature detectors

• selective detectors

• hypocomlex cells