AP Psych Unit 4 Test

As you look at an apple, its reflected light travels to the eye. The rods and cones absorb the light and help transmit the information to the brain. This process best illustrates

• sensation

• top-down processing

• perception

• selective attention

• psychophysics

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

Sensation is to _____ as perception is to ______

• encoding; detection

• detection; interpretation

• interpretation; organization

• organization; accommodation

• threshold; transduction

Patients' negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrates the importance of

• transduction

• accommodation

• sensory adaptation

• difference thresholds

• top-down processing

The effect of prior experience and current expectations on perception best illustrates the importance of

• accommodation

• transduction

• sensory thresholds

• top-down processing

• sensation

Trying to see a hidden representational imagine in a place of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual process?

• selective attention

• interposition

• perceptual adaptation

• bottom-up processing

• retinal disparity

You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best illustrates

• subliminal perception

• change blindess

• fovea

• selective attention

• the visual cliff

The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time is called

• gestalt

• change blindness

• frequency

• the cocktail party effect

• sensory interaction

In University of Utah driving-simulation experiments, students conversing on cell phones were slower to detect and respond to traffic signals. This best illustrates

• retinal disparity

• the phi phenomenon

• gate-control theory

• place theory

• selective attention

Researchers found that 40 percent of people focused on repeating a list of challenging words failed to notice a change in the person speaking. This best illustrates

• feature detectors

• the blind spot

• the difference threshold

• priming

• change blindness