AP Sense and Perception quiz

To sense is to _____ and to perceive is to _____

• detect; interpret

• absolute; difference

• interpret; detect

• organize; accommodate

After seeing Ms. Teacher only in the classroom, you may not have recognized her at the volleyball game. This best represents:

• Priming

• Proximity

• Accommodation

• Context effects

A girl working with food quickly puts her hair up while her customers back is turned so they don't notice is an example of:

• Inattentional blindness

• Change blindness

• Choice blindness

• Psycophysics

Driving while talking on the phone causes crashes best represents:

• Selective attention

• Sensation

• Perception

• Change blindnedd

While watching the soccer game, we can tell who is on which team due to their specific uniforms, regardless of where they are on the field. Which Gestalt principle best represents this?

• Closure

• Connectedness

• Similarity

• Proximity

Light -> Cones -> _________ -> Ganglion cells -> Optic nerve

• Fovea

• Rods

• Bipolar cells

• Blind spot

Dogs can smell certain scents that humans can't, this is an example of:

• Accommodation

• Subliminal

• Absolute threshold

• Difference threshold

Trying to spot the trick in an optical illusion by carefully looking at its colors or shapes uses which kind of process?

• Change blindness

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• Selective attention

If my coffee only has a 2 sugar cubes, and Jonny's has a 6 sugar cubes. His coffee is notably sweeter, even when adding equal amounts of sugar to both coffees. This best represents:

• Sensory adaptation

• Priming

• Parallel processing

• Webers Law

While eating super crunchy chips, you fail to notice how loud you were chewing. This best represents:

• Dual processing

• Sensory adaptation

• Weber's law

• Priming