Psych Unit 4 Exam Study Guide

Question 1

theory that the rated nerve impulses traveling up auditory nerve matches frequency of a tone, enabling it to sense pitch

Accepted Answer

Frequency Theory

Question 2

The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a specific stimulus is known as?

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Absolute Threshold

Question 3

This is the most complex best developed and most important sense for humans?

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Vision

Question 4

To be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage related to what law of sensation?

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Weber’s law

Question 5

Light-sensitive cells (neurons) in the retina that convert light energy into neural energy is called?

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Photoreceptors

Question 6

This theory states that some color combinations that we never see, such as reddish-green or yellowish-blue?

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Opponent Processing

Question 7

The point where the optic nerve exits the eye and where there are no photoreceptors is known as?

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Blind Spot

Question 8

Professional wine tasters or perfume testers detecting subtle changes in taste or smell is an example of?

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Difference Thresholds

Question 9

The sense of body orientation with respect to gravity is known as?

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Vestibular Sense

Question 10

A person who has damage to the middle or inner ear can suffer from this type of deafness?

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Conduction

Question 11

This theory states sensation depends on the characteristics of the stimulus, background stimulation, and the detector?

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Signal Detection Theory

Question 12

Transduction in the eye occurs in the?

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Retina

Question 13

The size of Just Noticeable Difference (JND) is proportional to the intensity of the stimulus is known as?

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Fechner’s Law

Question 14

The minimum amount of differences needed to detect that two stimuli are not the same is known as?

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Difference Threshold

Question 15

Frequency is the number of cycles completed by a wave in a given amount of time?

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True

Question 16

The process by which sensory systems and the nervous system receive stimuli from the environment is known as?

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Sensation

Question 17

The nerve that carries visual information from the eye to the occipital lobes of the brain is?

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Optic Nerve

Question 18

The sensory process that converts items like light or sound waves into the form of neural messages is called?

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Transduction

Question 19

This part of the ear transmits the eardrum’s vibrations through a “piston” made of 3 small bones to the cochlea?

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Middle Ear

Question 20

What sense keeps track of body parts, relative to each other?

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Kinesthetic Sense

Question 21

The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information is known as?

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Perception

Question 22

Amplitude is the physical strength of a wave=the “volume” of the sound?

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True

Question 23

This Theory links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated?

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Place Theory

Question 24

The minimal amount of change in the signal that is still recognizable is known as?

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Just Noticeable Difference

Question 25

This is created when the wavelength in a beam of light is recorded by the photoreceptors in the form of neural impulses?

Accepted Answer

Color

Psych Unit 4 Exam Study Guide

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Psych Unit 4 Exam Study Guide

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