AP Psychology Unit 3 Sensation and Perception

A person is asked to listen to a series of tones presented in pairs, and asked to say whether the tones in each pair are the same or different in pitch. In this situation the experimenter is most likely measuring the individual's

• sound localization ability

• dichotic listening ability

• difference threshold

• echoic memory

• attention span

A person with sight in only one eye lacks which of the following visual cues for seeing in depth?

• Retinal disparity

• Linear perspective

• Motion parallax

• Relative size

• Texture gradient

The reversible figure above illustrates the Gestalt organizing principle of

• proximity

• figure-ground

• closure

• common fate

• simplicity

As you watch a friend walk away from you, your retinal image of your friend gets smaller. Despite this, you do not perceive him to be shrinking. This is an example of

• motion parallax

• retinal disparity

• size constancy

• contitnuity

• common fate

Balance is influenced by the

• cochlea

• basilar membrane

• eardrum

• auditory nerve

• semicircular canals

If Carmelita stares at a red spot for one minute and then shifts her gaze to a white piece of paper, she is likely to experience an afterimage that is

• green

• red

• blue

• violet

• black

The change in the curvature of the lens that enables the eye to focus on objects at various distances is called

• accommodation

• adaptation

• conduction

• convergence

• consonance

Climbing an irregular set of stairs is more difficult for an individual who wears a patch over one eye primarily because

• some depth perception is lost

• half of the visual field is missing

• the ability to perceive interposition is lost

• the patch disrupts the functioning of the vestibular system

• the patch alters the ability of the open eye to compensate

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel’s research on responses of the brain to visual stimuli showed that

• patterns are recognized exclusively by template matching

• many cortical cells respond most strongly to specific visual information

• pattern recognition occurs in the lateral geniculate nucleus

• pattern recognition occurs in the lateral geniculate nucleus

• the retinal image must be upside down to be recognized

Eleanor Gibson and her colleagues have used the visual cliff to measure an infant's ability to perceive

• patterns

• depth

• size constancy

• shape constancy

• different hues