AP Psychology Myer's Unit IV Modules 16-19 Baxer

Although Robert was sitting right next to his wife, he smelled a skunk minutes before she did. Apparently, Robert has a lower ________ for skunk odor than his wife.

• absolute threshold

• tolerance level

• olfaction

• transduction level

After feeling the cold water against your skin when you first jump into the pool, after a few minutes, you no longer feed cold. This best illustrates:

• Weber's Law

• Accomodation

• Tolerance Level

• Sensory Adaptation

Alex is so focused on his homework that he doesn't realize it is now dark outside. What is this an example of?

• Selective Attention

• Top-Down Processing

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Change Blindness

What is the conversion of sensory energies (like sight and sound) into neural impulses?

• Transduction

• Priming

• Sensory Adaptation

• Neuroconversion

What is priming?

• When associations created by past experiences influence one's perception.

• When the sensory input is lower than the absolute threshold, thus only being sensed less than 50% of the time.

• When one's absolute threshold is lowered due to conscious awareness of the environment around them.

• When one's attention is focused on one thing, allowing them to be blind to changes in their environment.

Sarah is given one 100-oz bottle and one 99-oz bottle. She says that they feel the same weight. Then, she is given a 100-oz bottle and a 97-oz bottle. This time, she notices a difference. This is an example of what?

• Difference Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Sensory Adaptation

• Conscious Awareness

Jake closes his eyes and tries a bite of food. His friend asks him what it tastes like. What is this an example of?

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Top-Down Processing

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

Charles and his wife are at a loud baseball game, yet are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

• Bottom-up processing

• Weber's law

• The cocktail party effect

• Top-down processing

• Sensory adaptation

The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies through the nervous system is called

• priming.

• synesthesia.

• accommodation.

• sensation.

• perception.

The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events is called

• sensory adaptation.

• parallel processing.

• sensation.

• perception.

• accommodation.