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WorksheetsSensation/Perception AP review vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information.
a)
parallel processing
b)
schemas
c)
folders
2.
The skin sensations: touch/pressure, warmth, cold & pain.
a)
somatosensation
b)
subliminal stimulation
c)
parietal lobe
3.
The position on the basilar membrane at which waves reach their peak depends on the frequency of a tone. Accounts for high pitched sounds.
a)
place theory
b)
frequency theory
c)
binocular depth cues
4.
Proposed theory for color vision with cones that are differentially sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
a)
opponent process theory
b)
place theory
c)
trichromatic theory
5.
Minimum difference between any two stimuli that a person can detect 50% of the time.
a)
Weber's Law
b)
Absolute threshold
c)
Difference threshold
6.
The weakest level of a stimulus that can be correctly detected at least 50% of the time.
a)
opponent process theory
b)
absolute threshold
c)
perceptual constancy
7.
Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
a)
selective attention
b)
Weber's Law
c)
parallel processing
8.
The study of paranormal events that investigates claims of ESP.
a)
perceptual constancy
b)
hypnosis
c)
parapsychology
9.
The idea that pain can only be experienced if pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their way to the brain.
a)
place theory
b)
gate control theory
c)
opponent process theory
10.
Clues about distance based on the image of one eye.
a)
binocular depth cues
b)
monocular depth cues
c)
subliminal stimulation
11.
Information processing that begins with sensory receptors and works up into the brain.
a)
top down processing
b)
subliminal processing
c)
bottom up processing
12.
The rate of the neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone.
a)
place theory
b)
frequency theory
c)
Weber's law
13.
Receiving messages below one's absolute threshold for conscious awareness.
a)
Weber's law
b)
difference threshold
c)
subliminal stimulation
14.
Difference thresholds increase in proportion to the size of the stimulus.
a)
Difference threshold
b)
Weber's law
c)
Absolute threshold
15.
Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information such as color, brightness, shape etc.
a)
sensory adaptation
b)
parallel processing
c)
Weber's law
16.
Proposed theory for color vision with opposing retinal process for red-green, yellow-blue, white-black.
a)
opponent process theory
b)
tri-chromatic theory
c)
frequency theory
17.
Temporary decrease in sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs when stimulation is unchanging. (nose blindness)
a)
absolute threshold
b)
schemas
c)
sensory adaptation
18.
information processing guided by your pre existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions.
a)
top down processing
b)
Bottom up processing
c)
parallel processing
19.
Clues about distance requiring two eyes.
a)
monocular depth cues
b)
place theory
c)
binocular depth cues
20.
perceiving an object as unchanging even when the immediate sensation of the object changes.
a)
parallel processing
b)
perceptual constancy
c)
somatosensation
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