Sensational!
Perception
Memories
Real World
Wild Card
100
One example of sensory input.
What are sounds, tastes, visual images, auditory images, or pressure?
100
Your roommate's loud music stops seeming so loud after awhile.
What is sensory adaptation?
100
Noticing the attractive person walking on your right side, but not the four other people on your left side.
What is selective attention?
100
A false positive in an cervical cancer test could be explained by this.
What is signal detection theory?
100
Sensory receptors for auditory information are located here.
What are hair cells?
200
Pitch is determined by this characteristic of a sound wave.
What is frequency?
200
In the depths of the ocean, binoculars are better than....
What is a monocle! (or monocular cues)
200
Swinging a golf club is what type of memory?
What is procedural memory?
200
Tasting numbers, or seeing people's voices.
What is synesthesia?
200
Classical conditioning is an example of this type of memory.
What is implicit (nondeclarative) memory?
300
Two important nerves related to eyes and ears.
What are optic and auditory nerves?
300
The reason the cow always looks like he weighs 300 pounds, whether he is 5 or 50 feet away.
What is perceptual constancy?
300
Your ability to remember the beginning and end of a list of words is best explained by what two concepts?
What are the primacy and recency effects?
300
Because of your time living in Boston, any time you hear the sound "T," you automatically think people are talking about the subway.
What is perceptual set?
300
The distinguishing factor between automatic and effortful processing.
What is attention?
400
The minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected.
What is the just noticeable difference (jnd) or difference threshold?
400
A Gestalt perceptual rule that accounts for your perception of the words on this screen.
What is the figure-ground principle?
400
Connecting new information to old information is typically more effective than what memory technique?
What is maintenance rehearsal?
400
Learning about the process of transduction, you associate each of the 3 steps with a lyric of your favorite song.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
400
To what number from this sequence is it possible for me to remember for 30 seconds or less? 1-4-2-8-9-3-3-8-4-9-6
What is 4?
500
Best explains human ability to hear high pitch sounds
What is place theory?
500
The actual intensity of a light is rarely how we perceive it.
What is Steven's Power law?
500
The best mood to be in for your chem exam if you were angry when you studied for it.
What is angry? (mood dependent memory).
500
The fact that, when your happiest state, you notice more of the details in your surroundings is explained by what?
What is "emotions' effect on perceptual set?"
500
The perceptual principle that explains why you can read a word, even if parts of the letters are erased.
What is closure, or top down processing?
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