PSY Ch5 Review

Question 1

Interposion refers to our tendency to perceive objects blokcing other objects as closer to us

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

The vistibular system looks at pain

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

A pattern of optical flow is called Looming

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Perception is the process through which we organize or interpret things

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Volley theory suggests that neurons along teh cochlea fire in a wave

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Which one of these is not a receptor cell?

Accepted Answer

Logosreceptor

Question 7

Near sightness is from issues with the retina

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Sensory adaptation is also called sensory habituation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Dark adaptation is where you become less sensitive to light

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

What is it called where we experience pain but you don't have any real pain there?

Accepted Answer

Phantom pain

Question 11

The fovea is at the center of our field of vision

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What refers to receptor cells ability to detect subtle changes in stimulus strength?

Accepted Answer

JND

Question 13

Ernst Weber discovered the relatonship between signal strength and perception

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

The title of chapter 5 is

Accepted Answer

Sensation and Perception

Question 15

Seeing stars occurs from sensory cells being stimulated

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The olfactory system looks at smell

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Accessory structures modify the incoming sensory stimuli

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Eye color comes from the Lens part of your eye

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

A senstation of energy that can't be measured is called

Accepted Answer

ESP

Question 20

The most common color blindness is...

Accepted Answer

Red/Green

Question 21

We create what when we perceive confluction sensory information?

Accepted Answer

Illusions

Question 22

What gives us night vision?

Accepted Answer

Rods

Question 23

A sense is

Accepted Answer

A system that transmits to the brain

Question 24

Hearing loss can come from loud music

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

The cochlea is a hard fluid filled structure in your ear

Accepted Answer

True

PSY Ch5 Review

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