AP Psychology Units 3 and 5 Vocabulary

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: 

• the representativeness heuristic.
• belief perseverance.
• confirmation bias.
• functional fixedness.

The specialized cells in each of the sense organs that collect information to send to the brain are called...

• sensory cells

• sensory nuerons

• bipolar cells

• ganglion cells

• sensory receptors

The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called...

• eustachian tube

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• vestibular aparatus

The process by which your ears convert sound waves to neural impulses is called...

• sensory adaptation

• accommodation

• parallel processing

• sensory introduction

• Transduction

The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as...

• opponent process theory

• feature detector

• sensory interaction

• Weber's law

• absolute threshold

A person's diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as...

• accomodation

• parallel processing

• sensory adaptation

• transduction

• sensory equilibrium

a person typically fails to consciously perceive their own nose in their line of vision. This best illustrates...

• subliminal perception

• change blindness

• cocktail party effect

• selective attention

• visual cliff

If you are expecting an important text message, you are much more likely to notice the sound as soon as the message arrives. This best illustrates...

• priming

• signal detection theory

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• Weber's law

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

• lens

• cornea

• pupil

• retina

• iris

In the human eye, rods are to _________, as cones are to ________.

• light/ color

• color/ light

• monochromat/ dichromat

• dichromat/ monochromat

• lens/ iris