AP Psych Unit 4: Sensation and Perception

The kinesthetic sense involves:

If someone severely damages the left visual cortex, they would be unable to see:

A movie theater manager wants to sell more popcorn using subliminal messaging. You tell him:

Children who are born visually impaired, but can see clearly years later have trouble because:

We see this as two figures together rather than as many curved and straight lines because of:

__ theory assumes that stimulus detection depends on experience, expectations, and motivation.

If a person wears glasses that distort vision upside down, that person:

Frequency is to ____ as amplitude is to ____.

The center of the retina is the ____ and has mostly ____.

The minimum stimulus necessary to detect it 50% of the time is called the:

Analyzing that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration is:

The ____ has the sensory receptors for sound consisting of tiny, hair-like fibers.

Two or more lights blinking on and off in quick succession looking like movement. This is the:

Weber's law has to do with the ____ of a stimulus.

Even though these two figures are identical in size, one looks larger due to the ___ illusion.

Unlike computers, our brain is able to perform several operations at once, called:

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," has been most associated with a:

When we expect to see something because of prior learning experiences, like UFOs, this is:

Cones are different from rods in that:

The sequence of hearing is in the order of:

Retinal disparity refers to the:

According to the Young-Helmholtz theory, the retina contains color receptors:

We sometimes reverse images because of changes in the relationship of:

Receptor cells have been identified for five tastes including sweet, salty, sour, ___ and ___.

The fact that the Amazing Randi has never paid off on his claim illustrates that:

Mr. Jones has sensorineural hearing loss. His best chance of correcting his hearing is by:

Dave was listening to sad music. He heard "morning" which he mistook for "mourning". This is:

Psychics who claim to be clairvoyant are able to:

Unlike other senses, the sense of __ does not travel to the thalamus.

The lens thins or thickens to focus light in a process known as:

The gate-control theory has to do with: