📚

All Subjects

🧠

AP Psych

👀

Unit 3

3.8 Multiple Choice Questions

4 min read•november 19, 2021

Dalia Savy

AP Psychology 🧠

334 resources

See Units

Multiple Choice Practice for Sensation and Perception

Welcome to Unit 3 AP Psychology Multiple Choice Questions! Grab some paper and a pencil 📄 to record your answers as you go. You can see how you did on the Unit 3 Practice Questions Answers and Review sheet once you're done. Don't worry, we have tons of resources available if you get stumped 😕 on a question. And if solo study is not your thing, join a group in Hours!

Not ready to take a quiz yet? Start studying unit 3 here: Intro to Unit 3

Image Courtesy of Live Science

We all know our five senses but in this unit, you'll go into the specifics about them and what goes on in our bodies in order for us to receive these stimuli and perceive them this way.

Facts about the test: The AP Psychology exam has 100 multiple choice questions and you will be given 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the section. That means it should take you around 11 minutes to complete 15 questions.

*The following questions were not written by CollegeBoard and although they cover information outlined in the AP Psychology Course and Exam Description, the formatting on the exam may be different.

1. Sensation is to _________ as perception is to ______.

A. automatic processing; effortful processing

B. bottom-up processing; top-down processing

C. encoding; retrieval

D. interpretation; organization

2. Meredith was so focused on the player's actions in a football game, she didn't notice the streaker that ran across the field. Her failure to see what was visible because her attention was directed elsewhere is an example of

A. relative motion.

B. change blindness.

C. parallel processing.

D. inattentional blindness.

3. The fact that some teachers are better able to notice students texting in class can be explained by

A. linear perspective.

B. retinal disparity.

C. difference thresholds.

D. signal detection theory.

4. Ms. Lou often fails to notice that the eyeglasses she is looking for are on top of her head. Her diminished sensitivity to this stimuli is the result of

A. sensory adaptation.

B. accommodation.

C. inattentional blindness.

D. perceptual adaptation.

5. The main difference between clairvoyance and precognition is

A. clairvoyance is reading someone's mind; precognition is reading someone's future.

B. clairvoyance is seeing into someone else's future; precognition is seeing into your own future.

C. clairvoyance is perceiving remote events; precognition is perceiving future events.

D. clairvoyance is being able to move objects with your mind; precognition is reading someone's mind.

6. The ______ is to the eye as the ________ is to the ear.

A. retina; cochlea

B. lens; ear drum

C. retina; oval window

D. lens; cochlea

7. Quentin noticed that after staring at a green square for a while and then looking away at a white piece of paper, he saw red. What theory of color processing explains these afterimages?

A. parallel processing

B. opponent-process theory

C. feature detectors

D. Young-Helmholtz theory

8. While bird-watching in the forest, Hamid was able to observe many factors of his subjects including their color, the speed of their motion, and their size. This ability to process so many aspects of our environment simultaneously is called

A. automatic processing.

B. dual processing.

C. perceptual adaptation.

D. parallel processing.

9. The ability for gymnasts to perform aerial flips and land without losing their balance, depends most directly on

A. sensory adaptation.

B. parallel processing.

C. the vestibular sense.

D. kinesthesia..

10. The suggestion that acupuncture may work by blocking pain signals from traveling from the spinal cord to the brain is best explained by

A. selective attention.

B. sensory adaptation.

C. gate-control theory.

D. signal detection theory.

11. Art has a terrible head cold with a stuffed-up nose and is unable to appreciate the tasty meal his girlfriend prepared him for Valentine's day. His diminished sense of taste can best be explained by

A. sensory interaction.

B. sensory adaptation.

C. gate-control theory.

D. activation-synthesis theory.

12. Our ability to judge how close or far away an object is due to

A. proximity.

B. perceptual constancy.

C. the phi phenomenon.

D. retinal disparity.

13. After receiving his new eye glasses with a strong prescription, Josh was initially disoriented and a little dizzy. After a few days, however, he no longer noticed any difference. What best explains Josh's experience?

A. just-noticeable difference

B. perceptual adaptation

C. sensational adaptation

D. retinal disparity

14. A cochlear implant would be effective in restoring hearing to someone with

A. damage to the eardrum.

B. damage to the hammer, anvil & stirrups.

C. conduction hearing loss.

D. sensorineural hearing loss.

15. The process by which our taste buds convert the chemical molecules in our mouth is called

A. transduction.

B. accommodation.