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WorksheetsAP Psychology Unit 3 Practice Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the purpose of the iris?
To focus light on the retina
To process color
To allow light into the eye
To enable night vision
To detect specific shapes
________ are neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements.
rods
cones
ganglion cells
feature detectors
bipolar cells
Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process?
Vision
Sensory Adaptation
Absolute Threshold
Smell
Context Effects
Which of the following represents perceptual constancy?
We recognize the taste of McDonald's food each time we eat it
In photos of people, the people almost always are perceived as figure and all else as ground
We know that the color of a printed page has not changed as it moves from sunlight to shadow
From the time they are very young, most people can recognize the smell of a dentist's office
The cold water in a lake doesn't seem so cold after a few minutes
You tell your friend a cloud looks like your math teacher; they look up and agree. Which principle explains this?
selective attention
ESP
perceptual set
shape constancy
bottom-up processing
The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called
adaptation
accommodation
parallel processing
transduction
perceptual setting
Which of the following is most likely to influence our memory of a painful event?
The overall length of the event
The intensity of the pain at the end of the event
The reason for the pain
The amount of rest had in the 24 hours preceding the event
The specific part of the body that experiences the pain
Frequency theory relates to which element of the hearing process?
The rate at which the basilar membrane vibrates
The number of fibers in the auditory nerve
The point at which the basilar membrane exhibits the most vibration
The decibel level of a sound
The number of hair cells in each cochlea
Which of the following best represents an absolute threshold?
A guitar player knows that his D string has just gone out of tune
A photographer can tell that the natural light available for a photograph has just faded slightly
Your friend amazes you by correctly identifying unlabeled glasses of coke and pepsi
A cook can just barely taste the small amount of salt she has added to her soup
Your mom throws out milk because she says it tastes "off"
Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gestalt psychologists would have been interested in?
Depth perception and how it allows us to survive in the world
How we notice the various flavor elements in a dish
How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces
What the smallest units of perception are
The similarities between shape constancy and size constancy
Which sensory process are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup involved in?
detecting intense colors
processing sense of balance
transmitting light energy to ganglion cells
transmitting sound waves to the cochlea
smelling foul odors in the locker room
Which of the following might result from a disruption of your vestibular sense?
Inability to detect the position of your arm without looking
Loss of the ability to detect bitter tastes
Dizziness and a loss of balance
An inability to detect pain
Loss of color vision
The experience of a smooth picture at the movies, even though the actual film is made up of thousands of separate pictures is due to
the phi phenomenon
perceptual set
stroboscopic movement
relative motion
the illusory effect
As you look down the road, the lines of the road seem to come together in the distance, even though you know they do not. Which depth cue explains this phenomenon?
Relative motion
Retinal disparity
Interposition
Light and shadow
Linear perspective
Which of the following phrases accurately describes top-down processing?
The entry level data captured by our various sensory systems
The effect that our experiences and expectations have on perception
Our tendency to scan a visual field from top to bottom
Our ability to detect letters of a word before we know what the word is
The fact that information is processed by the higher regions of the brain before it reaches the lower brain
Meghan's friends seek her out for help with their problems because she can "see the future" and know what the outcome of an event will be before it happens. Her friends think Meghan has the power of
telepathy
clairvoyance
precognition
psychokinesis
sensory interaction
As she looks down the hallway, Elaine is not tricked into thinking that her friend who is closer to her looks larger than the friend who is farther down the hall. Which monocular cue helps her understanding?
Interposition
Linear perspective
Relative Height
Relative Size
Because of repeated exposure to loud noise they experience during their daily jobs, airport ground workers are most susceptible to damage of which of the following?
Olfactory nerve
Cochlea
Ganglion cells
Bipolar cells
Hammer, anvil, stirrup
Which of the following is the best example of sensory interaction?
Simultaneous exposure to warm and cold produces the skin sensation of hot
Some cones have the ability to detect red and green or blue and yellow light
You notice a slight flicker of a light when there is a sound that accompanies it
Pitch perception is explained by the frequency and place theories
You fail to notice the odd smell of your friend's room after an hour
After looking at a red, black, and green flag for a minute, you shift your gaze to a white wall. What best explains why you "see" a red, white, and blue flag on the wall after?
Frequency theory
Young-Helmholtz theory
Opponent-process theory
Ganglion-bipolar theory
Weber's law
