Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

Deafness An understanding of how hearing works explains hearing problems as well. Conduction deafness occurs ...

densely packed taste buds are by looking at the papillae on your tongue. If all the bumps are packed tightly ...

Figure 4.4. Cross section of the olfactory system. Smell (or Olfaction) Our sense of smell also depends ...

impulses and memory. The impulses from all the other senses go through the thalamus first before being sent ...

messages such as “lose weight” or “increase your vocabulary” are effective. If these tapes do change behav ...

SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY Real-world examples of perception are more complicated than controlled laborator ...

and put all those characteristics together into our final perception. Bottom-up processing can be hard to imagi ...

Proximity Objects that are close together are more likely to be perceived as belonging in the same grou ...

Constancy Every object we see changes minutely from moment to moment due to our changing angle ...

depth in their drawings. One of the most common cues is linear perspective. If you wanted to draw a ra ...

someone claiming to have “extrasensory perception” is claiming to perceive a sensation “outside” the sens ...

PRACTICE QUESTIONS Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five su ...

(D) chemical senses; they send impulses to the brain in the form of chemicals. (E) memory senses; they b ...

What function does the retina serve? (A) The retina contains the visual receptor cells. (B) The retina focu ...

States of Consciousness KEY TERMS Consciousness Levels of consciousness Conscious level Nonconscious level Preconsc ...

OVERVIEW While you are reading this text, you can probably become aware of your sense of consciousness. Ear ...

Conscious level The information about yourself and your environment you are currently aware of. Your conscious ...

amplitude as we go from wakefulness and through stages 1 and 2. In stage 2, the EEG starts to show sleep sp ...

Figure 5.1. Stages of sleep. Sleep Disorders Many of us will experience a night, or perhaps a series of ...

Narcolepsy can be successfully treated with medication and changing sleep patterns (usually involving naps ...