AP Psychology Test Review Sensation and Perception

The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is called: 1. Conversion 2. Emersion 3. Eversion 4. Transduction 5. Transformation 25 Response

During the process of visual capture, why does your sense of sight dominate over your other senses? 1. The sense of sight is the most powerful of the senses 2. The sense of sight is the most evolved of the senses 3. The sense of hearing is overloaded 4. Figure and ground affect our ability to converge on a focused object 5. Your sense of sight is easier for your brain to comprehend 25 Response

The theory that best accounts for the experience of pain is: 1. The opponent-process theory 2. Weber’s law 3. The trichromatic theory 4. The direct perception theory 5. The gate control theory 25 Response

Tasting a peach is ______; remembering that you hate the taste of peach is ______. 1. Sensation; sensation 2. Perception; perception 3. Sensation; perception 4. Perception; Sensation 5. None of the above is correct 25 Response

The average person can detect a candle flame on a clear night at 30 miles, smell a drop of perfume diffused in a 3 room apartment, and hear the tick of a watch in a quiet room from 20 feet away. What do each of these above examples describe? 1. Difference threshold 2. Equilibrium 3. Vestibular sense 4. Olfaction 5. Absolute threshold 25 Response

Place the following in the correct order concerning how a message travels through the ear. 1. Tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, basilar membrane, cochlea, auditory nerve 2. Tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve 3. Hammer/anvil/stirrup, tympanic membrane, cochlea, basilar membrane, auditory nerve 4. Cochlea, Basilar membrane, tympanic membrane, hammer/anvil/stirrup, auditory nerve 5. Tympanic membrane, cochlea, hammer/anvil/stirrup, basilar membrane, auditory nerve 25 Response

Sarah is having trouble keeping her balance. She doesn’t feel well and is thinking of going to the doctor. Using what you know about the brain and body, what area of her body do you think she is having trouble with? 1. In the parietal cortex 2. In the inner ear 3. In the outer layer of the skin 4. Within the corpus callosum 5. Within the spinal cord 25 Response

Your cat Skittles has been lost for three days, and you cannot stop thinking about him. When you hear a meow, you assume that it is your cat Skittles, because of: 1. Location constancy 2. Closure 3. The law of common fate 4. Bottom-up processing 5. Top-down processing 25 Response

The concept of ______ explains why a car looks the same shade of orange in dim light or in sunlight. 1. Closure 2. The law of proximity 3. The placebo effect 4. Color constancy 5. Olfaction 25 Response

As you view an abstract painting, you eventually see the white as the people and the black as the background. This demonstrates: 1. Proximity 2. Illusory contour 3. Figure-ground 4. Ambiguity 5. Continuity 25 Response

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