AP Psych Mod. 20-22 Review

Which theory of color vision says that the eye has three different types of color receptors?

• dichromatic theory
• monochromatic theory
• trichromatic theory
• opponent processing theory

When you can smell someone's perfume really strongly when you first meet them but after a while, the smell is not as noticeable - that's an example of....

• Sensory interaction

• Sensory adaptation

• Perceptual set

• Context effects

In vision, transduction occurs within the

• retina.

• lens.

• cornea.

• pupil.

Prosopagnosia is when people cannot

• see color.

• see shapes.

• recognize faces.

• parallel process.

According to Weber's Law, in order for someone to notice a difference in two stimuli they must differ by

• a constant amount.

• a constant percentage.

• exactly 20%.

• intensity.

Information processing that starts in the brain and uses the environment and prior knowledge is called

• parallel processing.

• bottom-up processing.

• top-down processing.

• transduction.

Sally failed her test because she was playing computer games in class instead of listening to the teacher's lecture and review. Sally failed because school requires

• selective attention.

• blindsight.

• feature detection.

• inattentional blindness.

Which of the following determines the intensity of the color we see?

• Temperature of the light source
• Amplitude or strength of the light waves
• Distance between the light source and the object
• Frequency of the light waves

What part of the eye enables color vision?

• cones

• rods

• iris
• cornea

Which part of the eye controls the size of the pupil?

• iris
• cornea
• retina
• lens