AP Psychology-Sensation & Perception

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

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

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

The area of the brain that receives information from the nose is directly connected to the limbic system, rather than relayed first through the thalamus. This connection may explain why smells are often involved in...

• pain sensations

• altered states of consciousness

• subliminal messages

• vivid memories

• retinal disparity

The classic gate-control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the...

• basilar membrane

• spinal cord

• semicircular canal

• olfactory bulbs

• fovea

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

• eustachian tube

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• vestibular aparatus

What color afterimage would occur after viewing the color blue?

• blue

• red

• yellow

• green

• white

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