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AP Psychology Chapter 4 Practice
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.
a. encoding; detection
b. detection; interpretation
c. interpretation; organization
d. organization; accommodation
e. threshold; transduction
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2. Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to ________ as recognizing the sound sequence
as a familiar melody is to ________.
a. the just noticeable difference; accommodation
b. absolute threshold; difference threshold
c. sensory interaction; feature detection
d. feature detection; sensory interaction
e. sensation; perception
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3. Heather Sellers suffers from prosopagnosia and is unable to recognize her own face in a mirror. Her
difficulty stems from a deficiency in
a. top-down processing.
b. transduction.
c. kinesthesis.
d. sensation.
e. accommodation.
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4. Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Schultz didn't perceive a word her husband
was saying. Her experience best illustrates
a. gate-control theory.
b. choice blindness.
c. gestalt.
d. selective attention.
e. opponent-process theory.
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5. If an adult develops cataracts, his or her
a. absolute threshold for light is likely to increase.
b. difference threshold for light is likely to decrease.
c. absolute threshold for light is likely to decrease.
d. difference threshold for light is likely to remain unchanged.
e. absolute threshold for light is likely to remain the same.
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6. When informed that a brief imperceptible message would be flashed repeatedly during a popular TV
program, many viewers reported feeling strangely hungry or thirsty during the show. Since the
imperceptible message had nothing to do with hunger or thirst, viewers' strange reactions best
illustrate
a. the McGurk effect.
b. sensory adaptation.
c. the volley principle.
d. a placebo effect.
e. accommodation.
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7. The constant quivering movements of our eyes enable us to
a. focus the light on our retina.
b. adjust the size of the pupil.
c. minimize sensory adaptation.
d. perceive speed more accurately.
e. see in low levels of light.
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8. Intensity is to brightness as wavelength is to
a. accommodation.
b. frequency.
c. amplitude.
d. hue.
e. disparity.
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9. Which process allows more light to reach the periphery of the retina?
a. accommodation of the lens
b. transduction of the blind spot
c. dilation of the pupil
d. sensory adaptation of feature detectors
e. focusing light effectively on the fovea
____ 10. Visual information is processed by
a. feature detectors before it is processed by rods and cones.
b. ganglion cells before it is processed by feature detectors.
c. bipolar cells before it is processed by rods and cones.
d. feature detectors before it is processed by bipolar cells.
e. the optic nerve before it is processed by ganglion cells.
____ 11. Damage to the temporal lobe area of the brain essential for facial recognition produces a loss of
a. perception.
b. signal detection.
c. transduction.
d. accommodation.
e. sensation.
____ 12. Feature detectors pass information to other cortical areas where complex patterns are processed by
a. bipolar cells.
b. supercell clusters.
c. the optic nerve.
d. opponent-process cells.
e. cochlear implants.
____ 13. An 80-decibel sound is ________ times louder than a 60-decibel sound.
a. 2
b. 10
c. 20
d. 100
e. 200
____ 14. The 130-decibel sound of a rock band is ________ times louder than the 100-decibel sound of a
nearby subway train.
a. 2
b. 10
c. 30
d. 100
e. 1000
____ 15. The retina is to the eye as the ________ is to the ear.
a. auditory nerve
b. cochlea
c. auditory canal
d. eardrum
e. eustachian tube
____ 16. The mechanical vibrations triggered by sound waves are transduced into neural impulses by
a. hair cells.
b. the eardrum.
c. the oval window.
d. the auditory cortex.
e. the vestibular apparatus.
____ 17. Cones and rods are to vision as ________ are to audition.
a. eardrums
b. cochleas
c. oval windows
d. hair cells
e. semicircular canals
____ 18. The volley principle is most directly relevant to our perception of
a. temperature.
b. color.
c. brightness.
d. pain.
e. pitch.
____ 19. Joe Wilson, age 55, has been told by experts that a hearing aid would restore his lost sense of
hearing. It is likely that Joe's hearing loss involves problems within the
a. inner ear.
b. middle ear.
c. auditory nerve.
d. basilar membrane.
e. oval window.
____ 20. Which of the following circumstances is most likely to contribute to conduction hearing loss?
a. failure to use earplugs while working in a noisy factory
b. exposure to very loud rock music
c. misuse of Q-tips (cotton swabs) in cleaning your ears
d. exposure to unpredictable or uncontrollable noise
e. biological changes linked with aging
____ 21. Our experience of pain may be intensified when we perceive that others are experiencing pain. This
best illustrates the importance of
a. sensory adaptation.
b. accommodation.
c. top-down processing.
d. kinesthesis.
e. difference thresholds.
____ 22. The biopsychosocial approach to pain is likely to emphasize the importance of both
a. top-down and bottom-up processing.
b. frequency and place theories.
c. kinesthesis and psychokinesis.
d. telepathy and clairvoyance.
e. opponent and process theories.
____ 23. The McGurk effect best illustrates
a. phantom limb sensations.
b. the rubber-hand illusion.
c. tinnitus.
d. sensory interaction.
e. color constancy.
____ 24. Taste and smell are both what kind of senses?
a. vestibular
b. kinesthetic
c. energy
d. chemical
e. perceptual
____ 25. The principles of continuity and closure best illustrate the importance of
a. binocular cues.
b. perceptual adaptation.
c. Weber's law.
d. perceptual constancy.
e. top-down processing.
____ 26. A floating sea vessel is to the ocean water as ________ is to ________.
a. light and shadow; relative height
b. closure; continuity
c. lightness constancy; relative height
d. figure; ground
e. proximity; similarity
____ 27. The tendency to hear the steady drip of a leaky sink faucet as if it were a repeating rhythm of two or
more beats best illustrates
a. interposition.
b. perceptual organization.
c. relative luminance.
d. perceptual adaptation.
e. feature detectors.
____ 28. Rebecca was born with cataracts that were not surgically removed until she was 3 years old. As a
result, Rebecca is most likely to
a. have lost visual receptor cells in her eyes.
b. be unable to perceive figure-ground relationships.
c. have inadequate neural connections in her visual cortex.
d. be unable to sense colors.
e. see normally since her main visual receptors (retinas) were unaffected.
____ 29. The horizon Moon appears to shrink in size if it is viewed through a narrow tube that eliminates the
perception of distance cues. This best illustrates the importance of
a. relative size.
b. stroboscopic movement.
c. perceptual adaptation.
d. context effects.
e. the difference threshold.
____ 30. Psychologists are skeptical about the existence of ESP because
a. ESP researchers frequently accept evidence that they know is fraudulent.
b. there is no way to scientifically test claims of ESP.
c. many apparent demonstrations of ESP have been shown to be staged illusions.
d. ESP experiments show the impact of ESP, but correlational studies do not.
e. researchers have difficulty finding participants for ESP studies.
AP Psychology Chapter 4 Practice
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Sensing the world: some basic principles
MSC: Conceptual
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Sensing the world: some basic principles
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Sensing the world: some basic principles
MSC: Factual | Definitional
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Selective attention
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Absolute thresholds
MSC: Conceptual | Application
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Subliminal stimulation
MSC: Conceptual | Application
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Sensory adaptation
MSC: Factual | Definitional
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The stimulus input: light energy
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The eye
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Visual information processing
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Feature detection
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Feature detection
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The stimulus input: sound waves
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The stimulus input: sound waves
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The ear
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Taste
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Perceptual organization
MSC: Conceptual
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Figure and ground
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Perceptual organization
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Sensory deprivation and restored vision
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Context effects
MSC: Conceptual
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Putting ESP to experimental test
MSC: Factual | Definitional