Chapter 3

Question 1

The process that occurs when special receptors in the sense organs are activated allowing various forms of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

The process of converting outside stimuli such as light into neural activity

Answer 2

Transduction

Question 3

The tendency of sensory receptor cells to become less responsive to a stimulus that is unchanging

Answer 3

Sensory adaptation

Question 4

Which sense is not subject to sensory adaptation

Answer 4

Eyes

Question 5

How is brightness determined

Answer 5

By the amplitude

Question 6

What is amplitude

Answer 6

How high or low the wave is(height)

Question 7

Purity of the color people receive

Answer 7

Saturation

Question 8

How is color determined

Answer 8

By the length of the wave

Question 9

The change in the thickness of the lens as the eye focuses on objects that are far away or close

Answer 9

Visual adaptation

Question 10

Responsible for color visions and sharpness

Answer 10

Cones

Question 11

Responsible for low noncolor levels of light

Answer 11

Rods

Question 12

Theory of color vision that proposes three types of cones red blue and green

Answer 12

Trichromatic theory

Question 13

The theory of color vision that proposes visual neurons are stimulated by light of one color and inhibited by light of another color

Answer 13

Opponent process theory

Question 14

Visible part of the ear

Answer 14

Pinna

Question 15

Short tunnel that runs from the pinna to the eardrum

Answer 15

Auditory canal

Question 16

Snail shaped structures of the inner ear that is filled with fluid

Answer 16

Cochlea

Question 17

Bundle of axons from the hair cells in the inner ear

Answer 17

Auditory nerve

Question 18

Psychological experience of sound that corresponds to the frequency of sound waves higher frequencies are perceived as higher pitches

Answer 18

Pitch

Question 19

Theory of pitch that states that different pitches are experienced by the stimulation of hair cells in different locations on the organ of corti

Answer 19

Place theory

Question 20

Theory of pitch that states that pitch is related to the speed of vibrations in the basilar membrane

Answer 20

Frequency theory

Question 21

Theory of pitch that states that frequencies for about 400 Hz to 4000 Hz cause the hair cells to fire in a volley patterns or take turns in firing

Answer 21

Volley principle

Question 22

The sense of taste

Answer 22

Gustation

Question 23

The sensation of smell

Answer 23

Olfactory sense

Question 24

Areas of the brain located just above the sinus cavity and just below the frontal lobe’s that receive information from the olfactory receptor cells

Answer 24

Olfactory bulbs

Question 25

The body senses consisting of the skin senses the kinesthetic sense and the vestibular sense

Answer 25

Somestheic sense