AP Psychology Chapter 4 Review

A subliminal message is one that is presented

The tendency of the visual system to simplify a scene into the main object that we are looking at

The lowest level of a stimulus – light, sound, touch, etc. – that an organism could detect

The introduction of one stimulus influences how people respond to a subsequent stimulus

The interaction of the senses to each other and how they influence each other

The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously

Frequency theory says the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve doesn't match the frequency of a tone

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena

Perceptual adaption refers to the ability of the body to adapt to an environment by filtering out distraction

nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus

A perceptual set refers to a predisposition to perceive things in a certain way.

Place Theory is the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated

______ Caused by damage to the cochlea's cells or damage to the auditory nerve

What is part #3 called?

your sense of movement, including balance

Color constancy refers to our ability to perceive colors as relatively constant over varying illuminations

Inattentional Blindness is faliure to notice changes in stimuli while someones attention is focused elsewhere

What is part #6 called?

The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system is called

The tendency to perceive an object you are familiar with as having a constant shape, size, and brightness

Perception is the process of organizing, interpreting sensory information to recognize meaningful objects and events.

Top-down processing: information processing guided by higher-level mental processes

Cones allow you to see color

Which implant can help partially restore hearing?

Why do you need to feel pain?

Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Schultz didn't precieve a word her husband was saying due to

Gate Control Theory: Spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" to block pain signals or allows them to go to the brain

The claim that perception can occur without sensation

Intensity is the amount of energy in a scent wave; determined by amplitude.

The frequency of light determines the _____

What is part #7 called?

Preception of body movements

Sensory adaptation is an increase in sensitivity to a stimulus after constant exposure to it

visual information taken in by two eyes that enable us a sense of depth perception

What is part #4 called?

Predicting how and when we predict the presence of a faint stimulus aid background stimulation assumes

What is part #9 called?

Bottom-up Processing is when....

Eyes have cells that receive waves of light and translate them into one of three colors: blue, green, and red

A tone's experienced highness or lowness; dependent on frequency

Rods allow you to see far away

This image describes the "visual cliff" concept

Weber's law: just noticeable difference of a stimulus is a value irrelevant to the original stimuli

Grouping/Gestaly states that humans lack the ability to group like-objects together

Conducting hearing loss is when sounds cannot get through the outer and middle ear

Difference threshold is the minimum difference between two stimuli for a person to notice change 100% of the time

stationary objects shown in rapid succession, can be perceived as moving objects.

the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and mental phenomena.

Gestalt principles are the different ways individuals seperate stimuli from one another

Conversion of one form of energy into another, as when environmental stimuli are transformed into neural signals

What is part #5 called?

Staring at one color and seeing its opossite color on blank surfaces is due to the "Opponent-Process Theory"

What is part #2 called?

Accommodation is altering one's existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences

What is part #6 called?

Which one is NOT one of the 4 basic tastes

The property of wavelengths of light known as color

After losing his left hand in an accident, Jack continued to experience pain in his non existent hand. this shows: