Study Guide
AP Psych Unit 4 Practice Test
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____1.The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system is called
a. priming.
b. synaesthesia.
c. accommodation.
d. sensation.
e. perception.
____2.The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events is called
a. sensory adaptation.
b. parallel processing.
c. sensation.
d. perception.
e. accommodation.
____3.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?
a. selective attention
b. interposition
c. perceptual adaptation
d. bottom-up processing
e. retinal disparity
____4.Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the
a. optic nerve.
b. sensory receptors.
c. cerebral cortex.
d. feature detectors.
e. occipital lobe.
____5.You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best illustrates
a. subliminal perception.
b. change blindness.
c. fovea.
d. selective attention.
e. the visual cliff.
____6.Standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, Jerry kept looking at his watch to see the time. As a result, he failed to see that a store employee was being robbed by a person just in front of him. Jerry most clearly suffered
a. place theory.
b. inattentional blindness.
c. sensory interaction.
d. blind spot.
e. feature detectors.
____7.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
a. opponent-process theory.
b. inattentional blindness.
c. blind spot.
d. visual cliff.
e. figure-ground.
____8.The pop-out phenomenon illustrates that some stimuli almost inevitably
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____1.The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system is called
a. priming.
b. synaesthesia.
c. accommodation.
d. sensation.
e. perception.
____2.The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events is called
a. sensory adaptation.
b. parallel processing.
c. sensation.
d. perception.
e. accommodation.
____3.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?
a. selective attention
b. interposition
c. perceptual adaptation
d. bottom-up processing
e. retinal disparity
____4.Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the
a. optic nerve.
b. sensory receptors.
c. cerebral cortex.
d. feature detectors.
e. occipital lobe.
____5.You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best illustrates
a. subliminal perception.
b. change blindness.
c. fovea.
d. selective attention.
e. the visual cliff.
____6.Standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, Jerry kept looking at his watch to see the time. As a result, he failed to see that a store employee was being robbed by a person just in front of him. Jerry most clearly suffered
a. place theory.
b. inattentional blindness.
c. sensory interaction.
d. blind spot.
e. feature detectors.
____7.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
a. opponent-process theory.
b. inattentional blindness.
c. blind spot.
d. visual cliff.
e. figure-ground.
____8.The pop-out phenomenon illustrates that some stimuli almost inevitably