AP Unit 2 Review Game

Which of the following scenarios most clearly describes the effects of a strong kinesthetic sense?

• Developing a craving for a food after smelling it

• Being able to tell exact bodily position without looking at the body

• Being able to locate where a sound is coming from

• Balancing oneself on a ladder

When Alexus traveled to another country, she experienced jet lag and had trouble adjusting to the new time zone. Alexus’ experience is most likely linked to which of the following concepts?

• Circadian rhythm

• Fight-flight-freez response

• Night terrors

• REM rebound

During the night, Alicia stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Alicia is most likely suffering from which of the following conditions?

• Sleep apnea

• Narcolepsy

• Insomnia

• The REM rebound effect

It can be assumed that an individual described as a supertaster

• is a man

• represents a majority of the United States population

• has a low density of taste buds on the tongue

• is very sensitive to hot peppers

Balance is influenced by the

• cochlea

• basilar membrane

• eardrum

• semicircular canals

The biological clock that operates in human beings to adjust their functioning to night-and-day periodicity is referred to as

• spontaneous neural activity

• a fixed-interval schedule

• a circadian rhythm

• active consciousness

Bob is concerned because his children have been eating too much of an expensive breakfast cereal, so he brings home a less expensive version that looks and tastes exactly the same to him. His children immediately notice that the new cereal is less sweet. Which of the following concepts best explains the conflicting perceptions of Bob and his children?

• Perceptual adaptation

• Sensory adaptation

• Difference threshold

• Signal-detection theory

If Carmelita stares at a red spot for one minute and then shifts her gaze to a white piece of paper, she is likely to experience an afterimage that is

• green

• red

• blue

• black

The change in the curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called

• accommodation

• adaptation

• conduction

• convergence

People who are color blind most likely have deficiencies in their

• rods

• cones

• lens

• optic nerve