AP Psychology Unit 4 Assessment 2020

The part of your eye that gives it its color.  It is a muscle that controls the size of your pupil.

• cornea
• lens
• pupi
• iris

Perception ca be defined as-

• how we perceive different things

• how we interpret the information from the external world

• how we sense things from the external world

When information is converted to neural messages they are called:

• Transduction

• Transportation

• Translucent

Identify the Law

• Law of circles

• Law of Proximity

• law of Grouping

Identify the Law

• Law of the Jungle

• Law of whole

• Law of figure and ground

The sense of movement and body position

• Hearing
• Sight
• Kinesthesis
• Olfaction
• Touch

Being able to see a candle flame 30 miles away on a clear night is the

• absolute threshold for human vision
• difference threshold for human vision.
• perceived threshold for human vision
• ratio threshold for human vision

If an elderly person thinks that food does not taste as good as it used to, what is the likely reason?

• a decline in his or her kinesthetic senses
• a decline in his or her cochlea
• a decline in his or her vestibular system
• a decline in her or his olfaction

A person sees Object A in its entirety, but part of Object B’s outline is interrupted by Object A. According to the overlapping cue, what can that person conclude about these objects?

• Object A is larger than Object B

• Object A is smaller than Object B.

• Object A is closer than Object B.

• Object A is farther away than Object B.

Which term would best explain why a weightlifter who is used to lifting a 50-pound weight would notice a 5 pound increase, but a weightlifter who is used to lifting a 115-pound weight would not notice 5 added pounds.

• Gate-Control Theory

• Weber's Law

• Difference Threshold

• Multiple constant