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AP Practice Multiple Choice Questions

1. When she sees a photo of a face, Juana is able to recog- Use the following graph to answer questions 5 and 6:
nize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following
explains why?
% who 100%
a. Weber’s law detected 90
b. Bottom-up processing noise
c. Top-down processing 80
d. Signal detection theory 70
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2. As Jeff reads his psychology textbook, he is able to
convert the light waves into signals that his brain can 50
interpret due to 40
30
a. transduction.
b. perception. 20
c. priming. 10
d. sensory adaptation. 0
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3. Natalia is washing her hands, and she adjusts the faucet Volume
handle until the water feels just slightly hotter than it did Did not expect to hear a noise
before. Natalia’s adjustment until she feels the change in Expected to hear a noise
temperature is an example of
5. What type of data does the graph represent?
a. a subliminal stimulus.
b. an absolute threshold. a. Qualitative data
c. a difference threshold. b. Quantitative data
c. Median data
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d. Range data
4. Tyshane went swimming with friends who did not want
to get into the pool because the water felt cold. Tyshane 6. Which of the following is depicted in the graph?
jumped in and after a few minutes declared, “It was a. Absolute threshold
cold when I first got in, but now it’s fine. Come on in!” b. Transduction
Tyshane’s body became accustomed to the water tem- c. Signal detection theory
perature due to d. Weber’s law
a. priming.
b. absolute threshold.
c. difference threshold.
d. sensory adaptation.

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