FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 4

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 4

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Question 1: Inattentional Blindness Example

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Participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen

Question 2: Priming

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The activation, often unconsciously of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perceptions, memory, or response.

Question 3: Sensation

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The detection and encoding of stimulus energies by the nervous system

Question 4: Top Down Processing Example

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Patients' negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain

Question 5: Perception

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The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events.

Question 6: The Cocktail-Party Effect

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The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time

Question 7: Ohio State University

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Pedestrians were more likely to cross streets unsafely if they were talking on a cell phone

Question 8: Weber's Law

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The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be noticeable

Question 9: Top Down Processing

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The effect of prior experience and current expectations on perception.

Question 10: Cones Part Two

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The direct link between a single cone and a single bipolar detects fine detail

Question 11: Sensory Adaption

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Diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus. This helps us to focus our attention on novel stimuli.Our eyes quiver when we minimize sensory adaption and the object does not vanish from the sight

Question 12: Bottom Up Processing Example

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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

Question 13: Difference Threshold Example

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Some people are better than others at detecting slight variations in the tastes of various blends of coffee

Question 14: Psychophysics

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The study of relationship between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them

Question 15: Absolute Threshold

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The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time

Question 16: Just Noticeable Difference

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The amount something must be changed in order for a difference to be noticeable and detectable at least half the time

Question 17: Sensation Example

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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.

Question 18: Bottom Up Processing

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Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors

Question 19: Retina

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The light sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the rods and cones. Lights rays entering the eye are focused sharply on it

Question 20: Priming Example

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Photographs of people were rated more positively if the photos immediately followed a briefly flashed image of a kitten

Question 21: Sensation vs Perception

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Sensation is to detection as perception is to interpretation

Question 22: Choice Blindness Example

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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

Question 23: Accommodation

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Refers to the process by which the lens changes shape to focus images on the retina

Question 24: Perception Example

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As the brain receives information about the lines, and the edges of objects in the environment, higher level cells process and interpret the information recognize objects.

Question 25: Just Noticeable Difference Example

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If the just noticeable difference for a 10-ounce weight is 1 ounce

Question 26: 40%

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Researchers found that this percentage of people focused on repeating a list of challenging words experienced change deafness; they failed to notice a change in the person speaking

Question 27: Intensity

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The amount of energy in a light or sound wave, which we perceive as brightness or loudness, as determined by the wave's amplitude