AP Psych Unit 3 Review

Which of the following is the best example of a sensation?

• light entering the eye and activating rods and cones in the retina

• feature detectors firing in the occipital lobe in response to impulses from the eye

• autonomic nervous system activation because of a perceived threat

• dopamine passing through a synaptic gap and activating the next neuron

• the brain interpreting energy or chemical signals from the outside world

The following statement is an example of which term? "That bird in the tree made noise, and those sound waves traveled through the air and into my ear, where the sound waves moved neural cells in the cochlea"

• pereception

• sensory adaptation

• trichromatic theory

• sensation

• convergence

Which of the following is the best example of a perception?

• light entering the eye through the pupil and activating neurons in the retina

• feature detectors firing in the occipital lobe in response to seeing a circle on a page

• sympathetic nervous system activation because of a friend jumping out at you from around the corner

• dopamine passing through a synaptic gap and activating the next neuron

• one of the five senses firing because of a chemical or energy stimulua

As you read this question, your brain is using what you know about the English language to make meaning out of the letters on this page. What is this an example of ?

• bottom-up processing

• selective attention

• top-down processing

• opponent-process theory

• monocular cues

You encounter a piece of abstract art at the museum, and it looks completely different from any art you've seen before. You are struggling to figure out what the artist was trying to represent in this piece of art. Which of the following perceptual processes might be most applicable to this example?

• bottom-up processing

• selective attention

• top-down processing

• opponent-process theory

• kinesthetic sense

You can tell if someone is whispering because you can see his or her lips moving, but the person is too far away for you to hear the sounds of the whispers. Which of the following terms would be the most useful if you tried to explain this phenomenon?

• difference threshold

• sensory adaptation

• vestibular sense

• weber's law

• absolute threshold

You are bombarded with many stimuli all the time. Which of the following concepts would you use to explain to someone why we consciously perceive only a few of these stimuli?

• bottom-up processing

• kinesthesis

• blind spot

• selective attention

• figure-ground

Which of the following lists the parts of the eye most relevant to the processing of visual sensations?

• cornea, cochlea, lens, pupil

• iris, fovea, frontal lobe, visual cortex

• gate-control theory, broca's area, optic chiasm

• medulla, optic nerve, feature detectors

• pupil, lens, retina, rods, cones, optic nerve

Where does transduction occur in the ear?

• tympanic membrane

• hammer

• cochlea

• anvil

• thalamus

You are watching the final round of the gymnastics championship at your school. The captain of the team, Sybil Ramkin, just finished an amazing routine on the uneven bars. As you watch her, you wonder how she knows where she is in space as she flips around the bar and how she makes sure she's in the right position to land perfectly on her feet. Which two sensory systems are most responsible for Sybil's performance?

• vestibular system and sense of touch

• kinesthesis and vision

• hearing (inner ear) and gustation

• proprioception and olfaction

• transduction and kinesthesis