AP Psych Sensation and Perception Test Review

ability to focus on particular person in a crowded room is called

• auditory localization

• dichotic listening

• deep processing

• selective attention

process of converting incoming physical energy into neural code that is processed is called

• transduction

• sensory threshold

• sensory adaptation

• parallel processing

Which refers to the just-noticeable difference between two stimuli?

• absolute threshold

• sensation

• perception

• difference threshold

getting used to someone's perfume smell after a while is an example of

• accomodation

• sensory adaptation

• weber's law

• assimilation

rubbing your elbow after a fall to subside the pain is an example of

• gate control theory

• opponent-processing theory

• phantom pain

• trichromatic theory

most common form of color blindness is related to

• blue-yellow system

• red-green system

• process of visual information

• secretion of rhodopsin

This is the sensory information we receive from our environment

• Sight

• Sound

• Sensation

• Perception

This is our brain's interpretation of sensory information

• Sensation

• Perception

• Transduction

• Weber's Law

Seeing a candle flame from 30 miles away on a clear night is an example of.....

• Absolute threshold

• Weber's Law

• Difference Threshold

• Transduction

Also known as just noticeable difference, it is the minimum amount of difference between two stimuli to be noticeable

• Perception

• Transduction

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold