AP Psychology Unit 4

What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?

• Selective attention
• transduction
• bottom up processing
• top down processing

What principal states to be perceived as different two stimuli must differ by a minimum percentage rather than a constant amount?

• Absolute threshold
• Different threshold
• Weber's law
• Priming

What do we call the conversion of stimulus energies, like sights and sounds into neural impulses?

• Transduction
• Priming
• Weber'sLaw
• Signal Detection Theory

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....

• perceptual set
• absolute threshold
• selective attention
• sensory adaptation

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

• Context effect
• Perceptual set
• Emotion
• Motivation

Kim tells her brother to put on a suit on a hot summer day. Her brother knows to put on a bathing suit instead of a business suit because of .....

• context
• ESP
• priming
• bottom up processing

Which of the following is produced by perceptual set?

• not noticing that the song changes in a rstuaruant
• moving an arm quickly so that a mosquito flies away
• surprise in hearing a cowboy speak in a British accent
• not noticing a watch on your wrist as the day goes on

Lights____________ is the distance from one wave peak to the next. This dimension determines the ________ we experience.

• hue, wavelength
• wavelength,hue
• hue,intensity
• intensity,hue

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

• pupil
• lens
• iris
• cornea

The _____________ detect fine detail and give rise to color sensation.

• cones
• rods
• optic nerves
• blind spots