AP Psychology - Sensation & Perception

You Basic

100

The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus best represents which key term?

Selective Attention

200

ALL PLAY: HEADS/TAILS CHALLENGE

Flips will vary

300

What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?

(A): Selective Attention

(B): Transduction

(C): Bottom - Up Processing

(D): Top - Down Processing

(E): Signal Detection Theory

(D): Top - Down Processing

400

Define Transduction.

Converting sensory information into neural impulses.

500

Explain the difference between Absolute Threshold and Difference Threshold.

Absolute Threshold is when you are just able to detect a stimulus (50% of the time) and the Difference Threshold is when you are just able to detect the difference or change of a stimulus (50% of the time).

What?

100

Name the 3 bones of the middle ear.

Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup

200

What feature of a sound wave determines the pitch of the sound?

Frequency

300

Define 1 of the 2 theories about how we hear.

Place Theory or Frequency Theory.

400

An individual who has trouble hearing because of damage to the auditory nerves, or cilia of the inner ear is said to have what kind of hearing loss.

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

500

ALL PLAY: PLAY-DOH CHALLENGE

Cochlea

Organ-eye-zation

100

Name 1 of the 3 examples of grouping mentioned in the textbook.  (All key terms)

Proximity

Continuity

Closure

200

DUEL: SPELLING FACE-OFF

VISUAL

CLOSURE

GESTALT

BINOCULAR CUES

RETINAL DISPARITY

PHI PHENOMENON

300

Monocular Cues and Binocular Cues both help us perceive __________.

Depth.

400

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

(A): Depth perception

(B): Why we see an object near us as closer rather than larger

(C): How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces

(D): What the smallest units of perception are

(E): The similarities between shape constancy and size constancy

(C): How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces

500

Define color constancy.

Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing light alters the wavelengths reflected by the object (alters the perceived color).

I Spy

100

What do we call the nerve that carries visual sensory information to the Thalamus for processing?

Optic Nerve

200

Explain the difference between rods and cones.

Rods: Black & White.  Edges of Retina

Cones: Color.  Center of Retina

300

ALL PLAY: JUMBLE

SIRI..........NOAREC..........IULPP..........CPIOT RVEEN

IRIS..........CORNEA..........PUPIL..........OPTIC NERVE

400

Which color vision theory is best seen through staring at a black, green, and yellow colored UK flag for a minute and then staring at a white wall.

Opponent - Process Theory

500

What are feature detectors?

Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.

Miscellaneous

100

The more time you spend studying for the exam tomorrow...The higher your score. This statement best represents which type of correlation?

Positive Correlation

200

An experiment is the only form of research methods that can determine __________.

Cause and Effect

300

Who is the gentlemen who had the pole shot through his head and survived?  Which research method describes how we collected information about his story?

Phineas Gage. Case Study

400

ALL PLAY: CHARADES CHALLENGE

Amygdala

500

Name the 7 Psychological Perspectives

Biological. Behavioral. Cognitive. Evolutionary. Humanistic. Psychodynamic. Social - Cultural