NAME: ________________________
← AP Psych: Sensation and Perception Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Convergence
- Parapsychologists
- Weber's Law
- Similarity
- Chemical Sense
- a the study of extrasensory perception
- b group similar objects together
- c difference threshold is not a constant amount but some constant proportion of stimulus, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount)
- d enables a small animal to find food, avoid certain kinds of danger, and even locate mates
- e the more close an object, the greater the eyes inward turn
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- uniform and linked
- sense of body's position and movement
- dominate peripheral vision and faint light
- enable you to see color and detail
- mental predisposition that influences what we perceive
5 True/False Questions
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Light and Shadow → the point where the optic nerve enters the retina
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Afterimages → Images continue to appear after they a gone due to images persisting upon the retina
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Iris → colored muscles around pupil, adjusts light by intaking and constricting in response to light intensity and inner emotions
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Difference Threshold → minimum difference person can detect between any two stimuli (just noticeable difference)
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Sensory Interaction → principle that one sense may influence another (smell and taste)
Regenerate Test