AP Psych Unit 2 Vocab Quiz

What is a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information?

• Schema

• Heuristics

• Priming

• Prototypes

Which term describes how people perceive the world as a whole, rather than just the sum of its parts?

• Figure and ground

• Gestalt psychology

• Inattentional blindness

• Apparent movement

What is the ability to focus one's attention on one stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli?

• Change blindness

• Cocktail party effect

• Retinal disparity

• Texture gradient

What is the failure to notice the existence of an unexpected item?

• Inattentional blindness

• Linear perspective

• Priming

• Assimilation

What is the slight difference between the right and left retinal image?

• Texture gradient

• Retinal disparity

• Interposition

• Apparent movement

What is the failure to notice obvious change?

• Change blindness

• Heuristics

• Prototypes

• Schema

What describes the progressive decline in the resolution of textures as the viewer moves away?

• Linear perspective

• Texture gradient

• Interposition

• Priming

What is the term for two objects appearing closer together as the distance from them increases and they appear to converge on the horizon?

• Apparent movement

• Linear perspective

• Retinal disparity

• Interposition

What is the perception of motion when nothing is actually moving?

• Apparent movement

• Priming

• Heuristics

• Assimilation

What is the mental image or best example of a quick and easy way to sort and categorize items?

• Prototypes

• Schema

• Interposition

• Texture gradient