AP Psych Unit 3 - Sensation and perception

What can you put ketchup on?

If you burn your finger, ________ transmit pain-triggering signals to your central nervous system.

Knowing about the effects of the perceived distance of objects on their perceived size helps us to understand

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50% of the time

The process by which our sensory systems convert stimulus energies into neural messages is called

The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts

Which factor appears to be important for the development of depth perception in infancy?

Which of the following play the biggest role in our feeling dizzy and unbalanced after a thrilling roller coaster ride?

According to the Young-Helmholtz theory

The adjustable opening in the center of the eye is

Researchers have identified receptors for which of the following skin sensations?

Coke or Pepsi?

One of the ways we perceive images is by organizing stimuli into an object seen against its surroundings. Known as

The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time is called

Damage to the fovea would have the greatest effect on

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Damage to the temporal lobe area of the brain essential for facial recognition produces a loss of

After listening to your high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting.

Detecting physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals

The simultaneous stimulation of adjacent cold and warmth spots on the skin produces the sensation of

How many times has Martha tried to kill Geroe?

In a University driving-simulation, students on cell phones were slower to detect & respond obstacles. This illustrates

The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage

Who would win in a fight between Elmo and Cookie Monster?

The organization of two-dimensional retinal images into three-dimensional perceptions is called

Information guided by higher-level mental processes

Which theory can best explain why people respond differently to the same stimuli?

The mechanical vibrations triggered by sound waves are transduced into neural impulses by

Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the

Light-wave amplitude determines the

Weber's law is relevant to an understanding of

How many neices and nephews does Mr. Geroe have?

Our experience of pain may be intensified when we perceive that others are experiencing pain. This best illustrates the

Cats or Dogs?

Perceiving the color, motion, and form of a bird in flight illustrates

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information. External

Focusing on conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Experiencing a green afterimage of a red object is most easily explained by

The pitch of a sound is determined by what?

Bottom -Up processing involves analysis that begins with the

Accommodation refers to the