AP Psychology Review: Unit 3

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Across
  1. 7. Theory of Perception: The idea that the whole of perception is different from the sum of its parts, emphasizing how people organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes.
  2. 9. Cues: Depth cues that depend on the use of both eyes, such as convergence (the inward turning of the eyes to focus on nearby objects) and retinal disparity (the difference in images between the two eyes).
  3. 12. A spiral-shaped, fluid-filled structure in the inner ear that converts sound waves into neural signals that the brain can interpret.
  4. 13. Theory: Proposes that we perceive color in terms of three pairs of opponent colors: red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white, which are processed in antagonistic pairs by the visual system.
  5. 14. and Cones: Photoreceptor cells in the retina detect light and initiate the vision process. Rods are sensitive to low light levels and contribute to night vision, while cones are responsible for color vision and visual acuity.
  6. 15. Set: A readiness to perceive something in a particular way based on expectations, past experiences, context, and motivations.
Down
  1. 1. Law States that the just-noticeable difference between two stimuli is proportional to their magnitude.
  2. 2. Sense: This sense, primarily located in the inner ear, is responsible for detecting balance, spatial orientation, and movement of the head and body.
  3. 3. Processing: Perceptual analysis based on the sensory data from the environment, without prior expectations or knowledge influencing the process.
  4. 4. is the sense of the position and movement of body parts, enabling us to perceive the body's position and movements without relying on vision.
  5. 5. and Ground: The principle of visual perception where we tend to perceive objects (figures) as distinct from their surroundings (ground), helping us distinguish between objects and their background in a scene.
  6. 6. Hearing Loss: Hearing loss is caused by damage to the cochlea's hair cells or the auditory nerve, often resulting in difficulty hearing faint sounds or understanding speech.
  7. 8. Threshold: The minimum amount of change needed for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli.
  8. 10. The light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye that contains photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) and processes visual information before sending it to the brain.
  9. 11. Theory: A theory of pitch perception that suggests different portions of the cochlea are responsible for encoding different sound frequencies.