AP Psychology Unit 2- Pt. 3 - Review

What role do emotions play in our perceptual experiences?

• They can cause us to perceive neutral stimuli as more threatening.

• They only affect our perception of color.

• They have no effect on our perceptual experiences.

• They improve our ability to focus on tasks.

What is the process of perceptual adaptation?

• Innate face recognition

• Using auditory cues for depth perception

• Adjusting to altered sensory input

• Recognizing motion accurately

After hearing about a kidnapping, Odessa feels more anxious about her children's safety. This reaction is best explained by which cognitive concept?

• Availability heuristic

• Intuition

• Belief perseverance

• Mental set

What role does the cerebellum play in memory processing?

• Enhancing emotional memory

• Regulating stress responses

• Storing explicit memories

• Forming conditioned reflexes

Which type of information do we process automatically without conscious effort?

• Historical dates and events

• Space, time, and frequency

• Directions to a new place

• Complex mathematical formulas and theories

Which Gestalt principle helps us group nearby figures into a larger whole?

• Closure

• Proximity

• Continuity

• Similarity

What does the testing effect in memory research suggest?

• The phenomenon where repeated testing leads to forgetting

• The belief that testing has no impact on learning

• The concept that testing improves memory retention

• The idea that testing hinders memory retrieval

How does retinal disparity enhance our understanding of depth?

• By measuring auditory cues

• By comparing images from each eye

• By assessing surface texture

• By analyzing color variations

Which cognitive bias involves relying too heavily on the first piece of information encountered?

• Representativeness heuristic

• Motivated reasoning

• Anchoring

• Confirmation bias

Many students underestimate the time needed for assignments due to which cognitive bias?

• Fixation

• Belief perseverance

• Mental set

• Overconfidence