AP Psych Unit 3 Review

What is sensation

• that feeling that you get from the five senses

• the process by which we receive stimuli from our environment through our sensory receptors and represent them

• processing and interpreting sensory information

• thinking about a particular stimulus

What term refers to the process of making sense out of sensory information, or processing and interpreting it?

• Perception

• Sensation

• Detection

Ernesto sees a cat for the first time. He uses the fact that it looks similar to a dog to process what the creature may be. What type of processing is being used?

• Top-down

• Bottom-up

• Regular

• Abnormal

If you see a cat and just see and interpret it as it is, without using any preexisting ideas or expectations, then what type of processing was used?

• abnormal

• bottom-up

• top-down

• regular

What is the right order of steps for sensation?

• Reception -> Transduction -> Transmission

• Reception -> Transmission -> Transduction

• Transduction -> Transmission -> Reception

The minimum intensity of a stimulus needed to detect it half of the time

• Subliminal Threshold

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

The difference threshold (Just-noticeable-difference or JND) is

• the minimum difference in two stimuli needed to detect the difference all of the time

• the minimum intensity of a stimulus needed to detect half of the time

• the minimum intensity of a stimulus needed to detect all of the time

• the minimum difference in two stimuli needed to detect the difference half of the time

What law states that to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage?

• Wundt's Law

• Hooke's Law

• Weber's Law

• Newton's Law

For a split second before being shown a video, you're shown a coca cola ad. It is a subliminal stimulus and you don't consciously process the ad. Later, when given the choice between pepsi and coca cola, you choose coca cola. What term best applies here?

• Subliminal Priming

• Persuasion

A clock starts ticking and you notice it initially but later don't even think about it as you work on something. The ticking continues and you don't even notice it for the rest of the time that you're around the clock. What term best explains what has happened here?

• Constant Desensitization

• Priming

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensory Adaptation