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chapter 5 objectives
AP Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain the difference between bottom-up and top-down processing | |
| Define transduction, and specify the form of energy our visual system converts into the neural messages our brain can interpret | |
| Describe the major structures of the eye, and explain how they guide an incoming ray of light toward the eye’s receptor cells | |
| Contrast the two types of receptor cells in the retina, and describe the retina’s reaction to light | |
| Define parallel processing, and discuss its role in visual information processing | |
| Explain how the Young-Helmholtz and opponent process theories help us understand color vision | |
| Explain the importance of color constancy | |
| Describe the three regions of the ear, and outline the series of events that triggers the electrical impulses sent to the brain | |
| Contrast the place and frequency theories, and explain how they help us to understand pitch perception | |
| Describe how we pinpoint sounds | |
| Contrast the two types of hearing loss, and describe some of their | |
| Describe how cochlear implants function, and explain why Deaf culture advocates object to these devices | |
| State the purpose of pain, and describe the biopsychosocial perspective on pain | |
| Describe the sense of taste, and explain the principle of sensory interaction | |
| Describe the sense of smell, and explain why specific odors so easily trigger memories | |
| Distinguish between kinesthesis and the vestibular sense | |
| A musician is walking home alone late one night and is startled when a dog in a yard to his left barks unexpectedly. Respond to each of the following regarding the musician’s ability to hear the bark. | |
| Trace the path that the sound waves travel as they enter the ear and proceed to the receptor cells for hearing. | |
| Trace the path that the neural impulses created by the bark travel from the receptor cells in the brain | |
| Using 2 theories of pitch perception, explain how the brain might process the pitch of the dog’s bark | |
| Explain how the musician would know that the bark originated to his left without seeing the dog? |
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