S&P Practice Test

Sensation is to encoding; detection as perception is to

• a. encoding; detection

• b. detection; interpretation

• c. interpretation; organization

• d. organization; accommodation

• e. threshold; transduction

While a man provided directions to a construction worker, two experimenters rudely interrupted by passing between them carrying a door. The student's failure to notice that the construction worker was replaced by a different person during this interruption illustrates

• a. blind spot

• b. gate-control theory

• c. bottom-up processing

• d. change blindness

• e. top-down processing

The local fire department sounds the 12 o'clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of

Although Manuel was sitting right next to his parents, he smelled a skunk minutes before they did. Apparently, Manuel has a lower for skunk odor than his parents have.

• a. accommodation level

• b. absolute threshold

• c. tolerance level

• d. olfactory saturation level

• e. adaptation level

During a hearing test, many sounds were presented at such a low level of intensity that Mr. Antall could hardly detect them. These sounds were below Mr. Antall's

• a. subliminal threshold

• b. absolute threshold

• c. adaptation threshold

• d. difference threshold

• e. auditory threshold

Diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as

• a. sensory accommodation

• b. blindsight

• c. sensory adaptation

• d. transduction

• e. equilibrium

Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to

• a. a feature detector

• b. perceptual adaptation

• c. a perceptual set

• d. a difference threshold

• e. gate-control theory

The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called

• a. parapsychology

• b. Gestalt psychology

• c. human factors psychology

• d. ESP

• e. perceptual adaptation

Intensity is to brightness as wavelength is to

• a. frequency

• b. amplitude

• c. hue

• d. disparity

The adjustable opening in the center of the eye is the

• a. fovea

• b. iris

• c. cornea

• d. pupil

• e. blind spot