Chapter 3 - Sensation And Perception

Question 1

What is the purpose of the cornea?

Answer 1

• bends light waves so the image can be focused on the retina

Question 2

What’s of the left visual field?

Answer 2

• left eye
• optic nerve
• optic Chaism
• nerve signal
• left visual cortex

Question 3

What in the right visual field?

Answer 3

• right eye
• optic tract
• right visual cortex

Question 4

What is the processed of the eye?

Answer 4

• córnea
• pupil
• lens
• retina

Question 5

What is volley principle

Answer 5

• theory of pitch that states the frequencies from about 400hz to 400hz cause the hair cells ( auditory neurons ) to fire in volley pattern, or take turns in firing

Question 6

How does sound travel through the ear

Answer 6

• outer ear
• middle ear
• inner ear

Question 7

What are the basic tastes?

Answer 7

• sweet
• sour
• salty
• bitter
• umami

Question 8

What is motion parallax

Answer 8

THE perception of motion of objects in which close objects appear to move more quickly than objects that are farther away

Question 9

What is muller-lyer illusion

Answer 9

Illusion of line length that is distorted by inward turning or outward turning corners on the ends of the lines, causing lines of equal length to appear to be difference

Question 10

What’s the difference between top-down processing and bottom-up processing?

Answer 10

• top-down processing- the use of pre-existing knowledge to organize individual features into a unified while
• bottom-up the analysis of smaller features to build up to a complete perception.