AP Psych Chapter 3 Vocab Quiz

Question 1

Synesthesia

Answer 1

Disorder in which the signals from the various sensory organs are processed in the wrong cortical areas, resulting in the sense information being interpreted as more than one sensation

Question 2

Sensation

Answer 2

The process that occurs when special receptors in the sense organs are activated, allowing various forms of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain.

Question 3

Absolute Threshold

Answer 3

The lowest level of stimulation that person can consciously detect 50 percent of the time the stimulation is present.

Question 4

Habituation

Answer 4

tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information.

Question 5

Sensory Adaptation

Answer 5

Tendency of sensory receptor cells to become less responsive to a stimulus that is unchanging.

Question 6

Blind Spot

Answer 6

Area in the Retina where the axons of the three layers of retinal cells exit the eye to form the optic nerve, insensitive to light

Question 7

After image

Answer 7

Images that occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed.

Question 8

Auditory Canal

Answer 8

Short tunnel that runs from the pinna to the eardrum

Question 9

Place Theory

Answer 9

Theory of pitch that states that different pitches are experienced by the stimulation of hair cells in different locations on the organ of Corti

Question 10

Gustation

Answer 10

The sensation of a taste

Question 11

Olfaction (sense)

Answer 11

The sensation of smell

Question 12

Somesthestic Senses

Answer 12

The body senses consisting of the skin senses, the kinesthetic sense, and the vestibular senses.

Question 13

Skin Senses

Answer 13

The sensations of touch, pressure, temperature and pain.

Question 14

Kinesthetic Sense

Answer 14

Sense of the location of body parts in relation to the ground and eachother

Question 15

Vestibular Sense

Answer 15

The sensation of movement, balance, and body position.

Question 16

Perception

Answer 16

The method by which the sensations experiences at any given moment are interpreted and organized in some meaningful fashion.

Question 17

Size Constancy

Answer 17

The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same actual size regardless of its distance.

Question 18

Proximity

Answer 18

The tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

Question 19

Continuity

Answer 19

The tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Question 20

Contiguity

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The tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.

Question 21

Monocular Cues

Answer 21

Cues for perceiving depth based on one eye only

Question 22

Binocular Cues

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Cues for perceiving depth based on both eyes.

Question 23

Accommadation

Answer 23

As a monocular clue, the brain’s use of information about the changing thickness of the lens of the eye in response to looking at objects that are close of far away.

Question 24

Binocular Disparity

Answer 24

The difference in images between the two eyes, which is greater for objects that are close and smaller for distant objects

Question 25

Perceptual Test

Answer 25

The tendency to perceive things a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions