AP Psychology Sensation and Perception Practice Quiz

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

• light/ color

• color/ light

• monochromat/ dichromat

• dichromat/ monochromat

• lens/ iris

What sense helps maintain balance?

• Vestibular

• Kinesthetic

• Proprioception

• Audition

• Olfaction

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

A psychologist believes her patient's chronic pain is influenced by his obsessive thoughts and unnecessary concern that he might be injured again in the future. What school of thought is this psychologist likely from?

• Gestalt

• Humanist

• Cognitive

• Biological

• Socio-Cultural

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

Although Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.

• accommodation level

• absolute threshold

• tolerance level

• gustatory saturation level

• adaptation level

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 three primary colors of light are detected by your cones?

• Green, red, and blue

• Black, gray, and white

• Blue, red, and yellow

• Blue, green, and purple

• Cyan, magenta, and yellow