AP Psychology Sensation and Perception

What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?

• Selective attention

• Transduction

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Signal detection theory

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

• Absolute threshold

• Different threshold

• Signal detection theory

• Priming

• Weber's law

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

• Perception

• Transduction

• Priming

• Signal detection theory

• Threshold

Light's is the distance from our wave peak to the next. This dimension determines the we experience.

• hue; wavelength

• wavelength; hue

• hue; intensity

• wavelength; intensity

• intensity; wavelength

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

• Pupil

• Iris

• Cornea

• Lens

• Fovea

Bryanna and Charles are in a dancing competition. It is easy for spectators to see them against the dance floor because of...

• visual cliff

• phi phenomenon

• color constancy

• sensory restriction

• figure-ground

Sensing the position and movement of individual body part is an example of which sense?

• Vestibular

• Auditory

• Kinesthetic

What is the purpose of the iris?

• To focus light on the retina

• To process color

• To allow light into the eye

• To enable night vision

• To detect specific shapes

Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements are called what?

• Rods

• Cones

• Ganglion cells

• Feature detectors

• Bipolar cells

The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called what?

• Adaptation

• Accommodation

• Parallel processing

• Transduction