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Sensation and Perception
Light enters the eye in this order
The relay station of the brain
Sensation and Perception
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The relay station of the brain
medula
hypothalamus
thalamus
pons
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Light enters the eye in this order
lens, rods, cones, retina
Cornea, iris, pupil, lens, retina
cornea, iris, lens, pupil
pupil, optic nerve, lens
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The skin sensations
Somatosensation
Timbre
Pitch
kinesthesis
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Absolute threshold
the failure to detect stimulus
detection of stimulus every time
50% of the time is works every time
detection of stimulus 50% of the time
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Major inhibitory neurotransmitter
GABA
Dopamine
Glutamate
ACh
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Memory is most strongly attached to the sense of
smell
sight
hearing
touch
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Umami came later but these were the oringinal four sensations
salty, fatty, starch, fruity
salty, umami, sweet, bitter
coarse, soft, salty, sour
bitter, sour, sweet, salty
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Creates the illusion that sound in a theatre is coming from the screen
closure
proximity
visual capture
sound systemness
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Small area of the retina where the cone are the most concentrated
Pupil
fovea
Cornea
Iris
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A principle for understanding pitch
frequency
Volley
habituation
gate control theory
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The two chemical senses
taste and smell
taste and hearing
Smell and sight
sight and hearing
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Loss of hearing resulting from damage to the cochlea, cilia, or auditory neurons
conduction deafness
cochlea deafness
place theory deafness.
nerve deafness
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Schemas are
optical illusions
mental frame works for interpreting information
tall buildings
monocular cues
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Sound follows this path to the auditory nerve
hammer, anvil, ear drum, cochlea
inner ear, middle ear, membrane
ear drum, hammer, anvil, stirrup, cochlea
cochlea, ear drum, middle ear, inner ear
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The reason you couldn't feel your clothes until you read this
sensory transduction
sensory adaptation
blindsight
homeostasis
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Which of the following are likely to cause hearing loss
biological changes linked with aging
failure to use ear plugs while workin in a noisy factory
all of the above
exposure to very loud music
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The vestibular sense is related to
the hammer
the ear canal
the anvil
the semicircular canals
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Allows you to see the colors in the screen
rods
cones
blood vessels
blind spot
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Misuse of Q-tips
leads to hearing loss
permanent hearing loss
nasty ears
nerve damage
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The theory that color perception is the product of three types of color receptors
sensory color theory
opponent-process theory
Trichromatic theory
Three color theory
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When an experimental result cannot be attributed to chance
reliable
statistically significant
negative correlation
positive correlation
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The process of transmitting sensory information to the brain
sensation
transduction
psychophysics
perception
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Places our understanding of absolute thresholds within a context
Transduction
Homeostasis
signal detection theory
Equilibrium
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The ability to see the color, motion, and structure of a boat on the water
trichromatic theory
signal detection
serial processing
opponent-processing
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Loss of hearing when the ear drum is punctured
Cochlea deafness
Nerve deafness
Frequency deafness
conduction deafness
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The transformation of energy in to neural impluses
Weber's law
and
Transduction
Perception
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Opponent-process theory suggests
green light is inhibited by exposure to blue light
yellow light is inhibited by exposure to green light
green light is inhibited by exposure to red light
all light is inhibited by exposure to Antonio
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Organizing words, shapes, or images based their nearness
figure-ground
proximity
closure
phi phenomenon
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The experience of pain after the loss of a body part
sensory adaptation
top-down processing
bottom-up processing
phantom limb sensations
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The transparent, curved layer in the front of the eye
retina
lens
pupil
cornea
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Too much is connected to schizophrenia; too little is connected to Parkinson's
ACh
Sugar
dopamine
GABA
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The wavelength determines light's
brightens
intensity
color
pitch
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The first time you heard a school bell you were probably shocked, but after a few days of school you
attached to the sound
conserved the sound
imprinted the sound
habituated the sound
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Used to describe the prevention pain signals
CNS
PNS
imprinting theory
gate-control theory
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Perceiving an object as unchanging even when the immediate sensation of the object changes
attention
Depth perception
perceptual constancy
change blindness
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Christmas lights that blink in a circuit are an example
pitch
serial processessing
Retinal disparity
the phi phenomenon
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Difference thresholds increase in promotion to the size the stimulas
Frequency theory
Justin's law
Weber's law
Place theory
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Information processing that begins with sensory receptors
backwards and through
top down
Schema
bottom up
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The visual cliff experiment suggests
depth perception is completely learned
depth perception is entirely innate
depth perception is partly innate
depth perception is a lie
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Timbre
Procounced TIM BERRRRR
Stupid musical term
The quality of a sound
Sometime lumber jacks attack
