AP Psychology- Unit 3 (Sensation and Perception)

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

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

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

What is the first part of the eye that light hits?

• lens

• cornea

• pupil

• retina

• iris

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