<p> SENSATION AND PERCEPTION STUDY GUIDE – AP PSYCHOLOGY</p><p>1. Trying to see a hidden representational image in a piece of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual process?</p><p>2. The basilar membrane is located in the ______. 3. Research participants picked one of two photographed faces as more attractive. When researchers cleverly switched the photos, participants readily explained why they preferred the face they had actually rejected. Their behavior illustrated what?</p><p>4. Bipolar cells are located in the ______. 5. Psychologists are skeptical about ESP claims because why?</p><p>6. As your teacher dims the lights to show a movie clip, you still perceive your friend's shirt as red. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?</p><p>7. As you look at an apple, its reflected light travels to the eye. The rods and cones absorb the light and help transmit the information to the brain. This process best illustrates what? 8. John Locke would have suggested that a perceptual set results from what?</p><p>9. In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated ______. 10. Sensation is to ______as perception is to ______. 11. The amplitude of electromagnetic waves determines the ______of light. 12. The quick succession of briefly flashed images in a motion picture produces ______.</p><p>13. Experiencing a green afterimage of a red object is most easily explained by what?</p><p>14. After watching a scary television movie, Julie perceived the noise of the wind rattling her front windows as the sound of a burglar breaking into her house. Her mistaken interpretation best illustrates the influence of what?</p><p>15. What is the purpose of the eardrum?</p><p>16. Patients' negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrates the importance of what?</p><p>17. Farouk insists that by intense mental concentration he can actually influence the mechanically generated outcomes of slot machines. Farouk is most specifically claiming to possess the power of ______.</p><p>18. Our sense of taste originally was thought to involve only four sensations… what are they? 19. Why is transduction important to sensation? 20. Evidence that some cones are especially sensitive to red light, others to green light, and still others to blue light is most directly supportive of the ______theory.</p><p>21. Some people are better than others at detecting slight variations in the tastes of various blends of coffee. This best illustrates the importance of ______. 22. The perceived size of an object is most strongly influenced by that object's perceived what?</p><p>23. According to the Young-Helmholtz theory ______.</p><p>24. As the brain receives information about the lines, angles, and edges of objects in the environment, higher-level cells process and interpret the information to consciously recognize objects. This process best illustrates what?</p><p>25. The sensory cortex is most critical for our sense of ______. </p><p>26. Which basic taste attracts us to protein-rich foods?</p><p>27. You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best illustrates what?</p><p>28. Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to what?</p><p>29. 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 ______. </p><p>30. Imagine your friend walking toward you in the hall at school. As your friend gets closer, the image cast on your retina does what?</p><p>31. The axons of ganglion cells converge to form ______. 32. Dilation and constriction of the pupil are controlled by the what?</p><p>33. Ohio State University pedestrians were more likely to cross streets unsafely if they were talking on a cell phone. This best illustrates the impact of ______.</p><p>34. The greatest difficulty facing contemporary parapsychology is the….. 35. Use the following terms to describe in detail how you visually perceive an object that you can see right now. Use the terms in order to correctly describe the sequence of events involved in your example of visual perception. </p><p>• Thalamus • Retina • Pupil • Transduction • Action potential • Feature detector • Excitatory neurotransmitter</p>