AP PSYCH CH 5 FLASHCARDS

What is the purpose of the iris?

To allow light into the eye

Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process?

Absolute thresholds

Which of the following represents perceptual constancy?

We know that the color of a printed page has not changed as it moves from sunlight into shadow.

Your friend tells you that a cloud looks like your math teacher; you look up and agree. Which principle explains why this is so?

Perpetual set

The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called

transduction

Which of the following is most likely to influence our memory of a painful event?

The intensity of pain at the end of the event

Which of the following best represents an absolute threshold?

A cook can just barely taste the small amount of salt she has added to her soup.

Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gestalt psychologists would have been interested in?

How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces

_____ are neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements.

Feature detectors

Which sensory process are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup involved in?

Transmitting sound waves to the cochlea

Which of the following might result from a disruption of your vestibular sense?

Dizziness and a loss of balance

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

stroboscopic movement.

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?

Linear perspective

Which of the following phrases accurately describes top-down processing?

The effect that our experiences and expectations have on perception

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 that Meghan has the power of

precognition

As she looks down the hallway, Elaine is not tricked into thinking that the friend who is closer to her looks larger than the friend who is farther down the hall. Which monocular cue helps her with this understanding?

Relative size

Because of the repeated exposure to loud noise they experience during their daily jobs, airport ground workers are most susceptible to damage to which of the following?

Cochlea

Which of the following is the best example of sensory interaction?

You notice a slight flicker of a light when there is a sound that accompanies it.

After looking at a yellow, black, and green American flag for a minute, you shift your gaze to a white wall. Which of the following best explains why you “see” a red, white, and blue flag when looking at the white wall?

opponent-process theory