AP Psychology - Sensation & Perception; States of Consciousness

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 phenomenon of color constancy best demonstrates that...

• an object's perceived color is influenced by its surrounding objects

• the retina has three types of color receptors

• the brain processes information about color and shape simultaneously

• quivering eye movements help to maintain the perception of color

• color vision depends on pairs of opposing retinal processes

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

Where is the basilar membrane located?

• middle ear

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• feature detected

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