AP Psychology Review 3.1, 3.3 Sensation and Visual Anatomy

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

The fact that we don't read the two "the's" in this image demonstrates how our expectations can override our sensory input. What is this process called?

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Top-Down Processing

• Selective Attention

• Inattentional Blindness

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

• Transduction

• Priming

• Sensory Adaptation

• Neuroconversion

If Jimmy is testing John's sound absolute threshold, what percentage of the time must John hear the minimum stimulus in order for the absolute threshold to have been found?

• 95%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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

Almost half the birds in the tree outside Brian's window were brown and the rest were red, so Brian perceived them as two different groups of birds. This best illustrates...

• proximity

• closure

• similarity

• connectedness

• disparity

What color afterimage would occur after viewing the color blue?

• blue

• red

• yellow

• green

• white

What is the first part of the eye that light hits?

• lens

• cornea

• pupil

• retina

• iris