Parts of the eye
Whenever Ethan is editing a photo, he edits it in B&W. What type of photoreceptors are used to see the photo?
Rods
Jeremy Choi (the goat) is performing a very difficult piece in the auditorium, what sensory process allows you to perceive this?
Audition
This law supports that if a teaspoon of sugar is added to a cup of coffee, it would be noticeable but if it were added to a pot, the sugar might not be noticed.
What is Weber’s Law?
What is the type of processing used when Avari stubs her toe?
Bottom-up processing
The amount of energy in a light or sound wave or intensity is determined by the ____.
Amplitude
The blind spot in your peripheral vision is caused by what?
A lack of receptors where the optic nerve leaves the eye
What type of hearing loss does a cochlear implant help with?
Sensorineural
The theory in which you may hear pitch when the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone.
What is frequency theory?
Aeryn smells the delicious waffle dogs from fair while she’s eating her malasadas, but now it tastes like a waffle dog. What is happening?
sensory interactions/her olfaction is affecting her gustation
A shorter wavelength reveals ___ colors because of its ____ frequency.
Bluish, high
Avari is looking for Aeryn at the fair, what part of her visual cortex helps her to identify Aeryn’s face?
Feature detectors
Place theory explains how _____ is used to determine our perception of _____.
Frequency, pitch
This theory supports Rylee’s belief that she can hear her mom calling her from downstairs while she is blasting metal music in her room.
What is signal detection theory?
Ethan’s ears are growing tired of listening to Avari and Aeryn talking. His ears used to be insanely sensitive, but now he can barely hear them. Why is this?
Sensory adaptation
Avari looks at slides of different people, but before every picture is shown, a happy image of her dog shows up, or an unpleasant image of a lion appears quick as a flash. Avari now has unfavorable ratings of people she saw after the lion. What was done to Avari?
Priming
Keon (my king) is running an 800 around the track, what process allows him to be in focus the entire race?Keon (my king) is running an 800 around the track, what process allows him to be in focus the entire race?
Accommodation
What is the difference between conductive and sensorineural hearing loss?
Damage to the mechanisms leading to the cochlea vs damage within the cochlea or auditory nerve
In the gate-control theory, this part of the body contains a neurological gate that blocks or accepts pain signals to the brain.
Ms. Au points to the board and uses her hands while explaining why we should use the spacing effect to study for the AP Psychology exam. What causes her to do this?
Embodied cognition
As Kido is driving to school, she sings along and listens to her favorite song. She is able to handle doing multiple tasks and stimuli, so what is Kido experiencing?
Parallel processing
What path does a ray of light take starting from the Cornea to the occipital lobe?
Cornea, Iris, Pupil, Lens, Retina, Optic nerve, occipital lobe
What path does a sound wave take from, starting from the outer ear ending with the Temporal lobe?
Outer Ear Aud Canal, Eardrum, “Hammer Anvil and Stirrup,” Cochlea, Auditory Nerve, temporal lobe
One theory suggests that there are three different color receptors that can be combined to make any color while the other theorizes that opposing retinal processes occur to stimulate and inhibit different colors. (hint: what is the difference between ______ theory and _______ theory)
Young Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory and Opponent Processing Theory
While students are taking their AP Psychology exam, they hear the quiet tick tock of the clock, but the old proctor doesn’t hear it. What causes the students to hear it but not the proctor?
Absolute threshold
Ethan is tasting new cupcakes for Avari’s Bake a Wish event. Although Ethan can tell that Avari’s second batch of cupcakes is much sweeter from a ⅛ cup more of sugar, Avari doesn’t notice the difference until her third batch, which contains a ¼ cup more of sugar. Why do the two of them taste the change at varying levels of sugar?
Difference threshold