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WorksheetsAP Psych Unit 4 Sensation & Perception (2)
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 22mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Ellis turns around and around in a circle. When he stops, he feels like his head is still spinning. What is responsible for this sensation?
a)
Cochlea
b)
proprioceptors
c)
Semicircular canals
d)
Organ of Corti
2.
What is it called when we construct perceptions based on experience and expectations?
a)
Sensation
b)
Selective attention
c)
Bottom-Up processing
d)
Top-Down processing
3.
What part of the eye controls the size of the pupil?
a)
Cornea
b)
Lens
c)
Iris
d)
Retina
4.
What are the three colors that eyes are sensitive to?
a)
Red, yellow, green
b)
Red, green, blue
c)
Purple, yellow, blue
d)
Orange, blue, red
5.
Where do sound waves first enter the ear?
a)
Cochlea
b)
Tympanic membrane
c)
Origin of corti
d)
Pinna
6.
Which one is NOT one of the 4 basic tastes?
a)
Spicy
b)
Sour
c)
Salty
d)
Bitter
7.
Audition is the…
a)
Process of speaking
b)
Act/Sense of hearing
c)
Pitch of a sound
d)
Act/Sense of tasting
8.
Not being able to notice change in the environment is known as
a)
Change Blindness
b)
Inattentional Blindness
c)
Sensory Adaptation
d)
Selective Attention
9.
The smallest difference between two stimuli that is detectable 50% of the time
a)
Weber’s Law
b)
Absolute threshold
c)
Change blindness
d)
Difference threshold
10.
The ability to attend to one voice among many
a)
Inattentional blindness
b)
Cocktail party effect
c)
Habituation
d)
Habituation
11.
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not the other
a)
Perceptual set
b)
Context effect
c)
ESP
d)
Top down processing
12.
What are binocular cues?
a)
computing the distance between two objects
b)
depth cues that depend on two eyes
c)
depth cues available to each eye seperately
d)
when moving, the objects that are actually stable seems to move
13.
What is an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick seccession?
a)
relative motion
b)
depth perception
c)
binocular cues
d)
phi phenomenon
14.
What is interposition?
a)
if an object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as closer
b)
two identical with an object, the dimmer one, seems farther away
c)
As the texture becomes closer together and denser it appears to be further away
d)
two identical objects, with the same size, but most people perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away
15.
What is bottom up processing?
a)
no prior knowledge
b)
prior knowledge
c)
ability to attend to one voice among many
d)
failing to notice change in the environment
16.
What part of the eye controls how much light can pass through the pupil?
a)
cornea
b)
retina
c)
iris
d)
photoreceptor cells
17.
Which of the following is not a group of percepual tendecy?
a)
Seperation
b)
Similarity
c)
Closure
d)
Connectedness
18.
The tendency to group images that look similar
a)
Proximity
b)
Closure
c)
Similariy
d)
Seperation
19.
Perceptual set includes
a)
Different perception based on immediate context
b)
Affects what we hear, see, and taste
c)
Perception that can occur with no sensory input
d)
None of the above
20.
Which one is not a way we hear pitch?
a)
Place theory
b)
Trichromatic theory
c)
Frequency theory
d)
Volley theory
21.
Which one is NOT a type of color blindness?
a)
Trichromats
b)
Monochromats
c)
Dichromats
d)
Quadchromats
22.
What is the outermost part of the ear?
a)
Pinna
b)
Cochlea
c)
Oval window
d)
Eardrum
23.
What sends the information from the ear to the brain?
a)
Cochlea
b)
Hammer, anvil, and stirrup
c)
Basilar membrane
d)
Auditory nerve
24.
Where do we have most of our cones?
a)
Cornea
b)
Pupil
c)
Fovea
d)
Iris
25.
When hearing, amplitude determines ___ and frequesncy determines___.
a)
Loudness -- pitch
b)
Pitch -- loudness
c)
They both determine loudness
d)
They both determine pitch
26.
What is the cocktail party effect?
a)
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
b)
Ability to attend to only one voice among many
c)
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
d)
Conversion of one form of energy to another
27.
Which part of the eye bends light waves so the images can be focused on the retina?
a)
lens
b)
cones
c)
pupil
d)
fovea
28.
What helps detect black, white, and gray. Necessary for twilight vision?
a)
pupil
b)
cones
c)
fovea
d)
rods
29.
What is the 5th newest taste to be found?
a)
Umami
b)
protein
c)
bitter
d)
sour
30.
How do we interpret loudness of sounds?
a)
eardrum
b)
cochlea
c)
haircells
d)
Audition
31.
What system senses position and movement of individual body parts?
a)
Vestibular sense
b)
Sensory Interaction
c)
Embodied Cognition
d)
Kinesthesia
32.
A subliminal stimuli is ____ the absolute threshold.
a)
Above
b)
Below
c)
At
d)
near
33.
The retina is responsible for ____
a)
Storing photoreceptors
b)
sending auditory info to brain
c)
protecting/covering the eye
d)
Receiving visual info
34.
Analyzing information with no prior knowledge is ___.
a)
Sensation
b)
Bottom up processing
c)
Priming
d)
Top down Processing
35.
Morgan is studying for a big AP Psych test and because she is so focused, she doesnt notice her dog eating her favorite shoes. This is an example of ___.
a)
Perception
b)
Sensory adaptation
c)
Difference threshold
d)
Inattentional blindness
36.
Sue’s dog smells really bad, everybody seems to notice but her. She is so used to the stench that she no longer notices it, this is called ___.
a)
Difference Threshold
b)
Inattentional blindness
c)
Sensory adaptation
d)
Noticeable Difference
37.
The ability to listen to one voice among many is called what?
a)
Sensory adaptation
b)
Change blindness
c)
Cocktail party effect
d)
Inattentional blindness
38.
The opening of the iris that may dilate is called what?
a)
Lens
b)
Cornea
c)
Retina
d)
Pupil
39.
What carries impulses formed by the retina to the brain?
a)
Fovea
b)
Optic nerve
c)
Ganglion cells
d)
Bipolar cells
40.
What is it called when an object is higher in our field of vision so it seems farther away?
a)
Relative size
b)
Relative height
c)
Interposition
d)
Linear perspective
41.
When one object partially blocks our view of another object is called what?
a)
Relative motion
b)
Relative size
c)
Interposition
d)
Light and shadow
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