Bangor Sensation and Perception

Question 1

Where impulses are sent to the brain in the eye

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Optic Nerve

Question 2

What sense dominates all others?

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Vision

Question 3

The stimulation of a sense organ; activation of cells

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Sensation

Question 4

Air-filled cavity between the eardrum and inner ear

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Middle Ear

Question 5

Neurons that are receptive to light

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Photoreceptors

Question 6

What is not a Perceptual Constant?

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Distance

Question 7

Vision in which people lack the ability to discriminate between some color

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Color Blind

Question 8

What is the purpose of the lens in the eye?

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Focuses the light rays

Question 9

What is not a taste sensation?

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Aroma

Question 10

Perception that parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance

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Linear

Question 11

These photoreceptors are sensitive to the color of light

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Cones

Question 12

Perception of motion created through watching a series of static images

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Stroboscopic

Question 13

Perception: Items moving together, belong together

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Common Fate

Question 14

These receptors are most common in the skin

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Pain

Question 15

Hearing loss a hearing aid would be used for?

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Conductive

Question 16

What is not a component of the outer ear?

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cochlea

Question 17

Weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed

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Absolute Threshold

Question 18

How high or low a sound seemsAmount of vibrations/cycles per second

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Pitch

Question 19

These photoreceptors are sensitive to the brightness of light

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Rods

Question 20

Largest Sense Organ

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Skin

Question 21

Process by which sensory neurons change their level of sensitivity to a stimulus over time

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Sensory Adaptation

Question 22

Perception where it is the natural tendency to fill in missing information

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Closure

Question 23

What bends light in they eye and sends it to the pupil?

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Cornea

Question 24

How clearly one can see

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Visual Acuity

Question 25

What is not an example of signal detection theory?

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Skin receptors receiving painful stimuli

Question 26

What does Motion Parallax perception state?

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Things closer to us seem faster

Question 27

Where light rays are converted to neural activity/ electric impulses

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Retina

Question 28

Changes of air pressure caused by vibration

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Sound

Question 29

Mild, moderate, severe, or total hearing loss

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Sensorineural

Question 30

Perception where it is the natural tendency to fill in missing information

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Closure

Question 31

What is not a component of the outer ear?

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Hammer

Question 32

Most lightwaves are _____ for humans

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Invisible

Question 33

Process through which people orient themselves to their own or others’ physical movements.

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Perception of Movement

Question 34

Provide info about the position & movement of body parts

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Kinesthesis

Question 35

An image that is perceived after the original source of stimulation is removed

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After Image

Question 36

Produces different colors

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Wavelengths

Question 37

Sense by which the qualities of an object are perceived and mediated by the eye

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Sight

Question 38

When light hits the eye where the nerve leaves the eye

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Blind Spot

Question 39

If a sound wave has more energy it is more_____

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Loud

Question 40

Colors across from each other

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Complementary

Question 41

Rods and cones are located where in the eye?

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Retina

Question 42

If Complementary are mixed they create the color

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Grey

Question 43

What is not a component of the inner ear?

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Anvil

Question 44

Theory that sates stimulus is a process that is influenced by various outside factors

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Signal Detection

Question 45

detecting odors with neurons in our nostrils that send information to the brain

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Smell

Question 46

Who has a better sense of smell?

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Women

Question 47

People use their knowledge, experiences, and understanding of the world to interpret

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Perception

Question 48

Smallest detectable difference in intensity of two stimuli

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Difference Threshold

Question 49

Light intensity controls_______

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Brightness

Question 50

Fluid-filled, snail-shaped. Converts vibrations into electrical impulses

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Cochlea

Question 51

olfactory bulb is incorporated with what sense?

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Smell

Question 52

How much energy the light contains

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Intensity

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