AP Unit 3

Suddenly you become aware of someone mentioning your name on the other side of the room.

• inattentional blindness.

• change blindness.

• the cocktail party effect.

• blindsight.

"she" seems able to listen attentively and respond appropriately to what you are saying despite checking her phone

• social influence theory.

• blindsight

• REM rebound

• parallel processing

Drivers detect traffic signals more slowly if they are talking on a cell phone. This best illustrates the impact of

• choice blindness

• selective attention

• prosopagnosia

• parallel processing.

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

• parallel processing.

• accommodation

• sensory adaptation

• Weber's law

Damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to affect one's

• vision

• audition

• sense of smell

• olfaction

Your sense of the position and movement of your body parts is called

• kinesthesia

• audition

• synesthesia

• olfaction

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words best illustrates...

• proximity

• closure

• interposition

• perceptual constancy

The fact that we recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles illustrates

• interposition

• the phi phenomenon.

• perceptual constancy.

• the McGurk effect.

Carla has lost vision in her left eye. Which of the following depth cues will she be unable to use?

• linear position

• retinal disparity

• relative size

• relative motion

The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the

• lens

• optic nerve

• cornea

• fovea