AP Psych Unit 3

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation

The eye’s “blind spot” is related to:

• light rays focusing too far in front of the retina.
• light rays focusing too far behind the retina.
• a cluster of cells around the fovea which contains cones, but no rods.
• an area without receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eye.

Rather than saying a person is “colorblind,” it would be more accurate to say that the person:

• has a blind spot.
• lacks red- or green-sensitive cones.
• is experiencing an overstimulation of the red- and green-sensitive cones.
• has an excess of blue-sensitive cones. 

The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are found in the:

• middle ear.
• inner ear.
• cochlea.
• outer ear.

After hearing that Bryce had served a prison sentence, Janet began to perceive his friendly behavior as insincere and manipulative. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• perceptual sets.
• visual capture.
• bottom-up processing.
• sensory adaptation.

the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• Altered state of consciousness

• Absolute threshold

• Selective attention

• Selection

the minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time

• Absolute threshold

• Biofeedback

• Altered state of consciousness

• Binocular cues

asserts that non-painful input closes the nerve “gates” to painful input, which prevents pain sensation from travelling to the central nervous systemv

• Gate theory

• Difference threshold

• Closure

• Lens

visual illusion in which retinal impressions persist after the removal of a stimulus believed to be caused by the continued activation of the visual system

• Sensory adaptation

• Sensorineural deafness

• Cochlea

• Afterimage

What part of the eye allows us to see color?

• cones
• rods
• iris
• eyeball