FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT DAVI

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT DAVI

PSYCH11 CH4 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: transduction

Answer:

when you listen to music, the sound waves are converted into neural impulses for your brain to process.This process is called __

Question 2: chemical scents found in natural body odors

Answer:

pheremones

Question 3: hearing receptors are known as...

Answer:

hair cells

Question 4: difference threshold is also known as what?

Answer:

Just Noticeable Difference (JND)

Question 5: thin, tautly stretched membrane also known as the eardrum

Answer:

tympanic membrane Question 6: Process of filtering and analyzing incoming sensations before sending a neural message to the cortex

Answer:

sensory reduction Question 7: Your daughter listens to the sounds over earphones and told to indicate the earliest point at which she can hear a tone. She is listening for what?

Answer:

absolute threshold Question 8: Minimal difference needed to notice a stimulus change; also known as a Just Noticeable Difference

Answer:

Difference Threshold

Question 9: five tastes

Answer:

sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami

Question 10: How does the lens adjust?

Answer:

small muscles change its shape to allow us to focus on objects close to the eye or farther away

Question 11: What is the path of light through the structures of the eye?

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Cornea - iris - pupil - lens - retina Question 12: specialized neurons that respond only to certain sensory information

Answer:

feature detectors

Question 13: Function of the skin senses

Answer:

Detect pressure, temperature and pain; they protect the internal organs and provide basic survival information

Question 14: The two chemically based senses

Answer:

olfaction and gustation

Question 15: pinna

Answer:

external, visible part of the ear that we automatically envision when we think of an ear

Question 16: Where does perception take place and what does it involve?

Answer:

It takes place in the brain and involves the sensations which are processed by the brain.

Question 17: amplifies and concentrates sounds gathered by the outer ear

Answer:

middle ear

Question 18: pathway for light through the eye

Answer:

cornea - pupil - lens - retina

Question 19: semicircular canals

Answer:

provide brain with balance information, particularly information about rotation of the head

Question 20: sensory system for body posture and orientation

Answer:

kinesthesia

Question 21: rods

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receptor cells in the retina that detect shades of gray and are responsible for peripheral vision and are most sensitive in dim light.Question 22: Rowena is placed in a room and told to press a button each time she hears a sound become louder. In this test, Rowena's __ is being measured

Answer:

difference threshold for sound

Question 23: transduction

Answer:

converting a stimulus to a receptor into neural impulses, which are then sent to the brain Question 24: riding a bike, walking or sitting up would be impossible without this sense

Answer:

vestibular sense Question 25: according to the most fundamental Gestalt principle of organization, our perceptions consist of __

Answer:

figure and ground

Question 26: Vision and hearing are both based upon ___ phenomena

Answer:

wave Question 27: contains receptor cells that ultimately transduce the mechanical energy created by sounds into neural impulses

Answer:

inner ear

Question 28: sensory adaptation

Answer:

repeated or constant stimulation decreases the number of sensory messages sent to the brain, which causes decreased sensation