AP Psychology Unit 4

As she looks at a face, Jamie is able to recognize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can recognize her mother's face?

• Selective attention

• Transduction

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Signal detection theory

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

As Jeff reads his psychology textbook he is able to convert the light waves into signals that his brain can interpret due to the concept of

• transduction.

• perception.

• priming.

• signal detection theory.

• threshold

Natalia is washing her hands, and she adjusts the faucet handle until the water feels just slightly hotter than it did before. Natalia's adjustment until she feels the change in temperature is an example of

• a subliminal stimulus.

• an absolute threshold.

• a difference threshold.

• signal detection.

• perceptual constancy

Tyshane went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the pool because the water felt cold. Tyshane jumped in and after a few minutes declared, "It was cold when I first got in, but now it's fine. Come on in!" Tyshane's body became accustomed to the water temperature due to

• priming.

• absolute threshold.

• difference threshold.

• selective attention.

• sensory adaptation.

Tonya's psychology teacher played some backwards music to the class, and they were not able to make out any words or phrases in the selection. When the teacher told them to listen for the words "The rat ate the cat" when she played it again, most of the class now heard the words. Which principle explains this experience?

• A context effect

• Perceptual set

• Extrasensory perception

• Selective attention

• Weber's law

On a warm summer day, KImberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly's brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

• context.

• priming.

• sensory adaptation.

• bottom-up processing

• clairvoyance

A famous psychic is a YouTube sensation because of his ability to read the minds of people in the audience at his shows. Which type of psychic power would he claim?

• Precognition

• Psychokinesis

• Clairvoyance

• Telepathy

• Bottom-up processing

Which perceptual process explains why you can see varied aspects of your favorite singer's face and instantly recognize him or her?

• Selective attention

• Accomodation

• Psychokinesis

• Blindsight

• Parallel Processing

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

• Rods

• Cones

• Bipolar cells

• Feature detectors

• Ganglion cells