chapter 3 tuesday notes 9/6

Question 1

5 senses

Answer 1

taste, sight, hear, smell, touch

Question 2

touch can be seperated into the two categories of

Answer 2

kinesthetic and vestibular

Question 3

sense of muscle movements

Answer 3

kinestethic

Question 4

sense of equilibrium/ balance

Answer 4

vestibular

Question 5

energy from outside or within stimulates receptor cells

Answer 5

sensation

Question 6

respond to energy and sends messages to the brain

Answer 6

receptor cells

Question 7

example of receptor cells

Answer 7

eyes/ ear

Question 8

receptor cells respond to particular

Answer 8

energy

Question 9

process of converting energy into the coded neural signals

Answer 9

transduction

Question 10

what path does the neural signals take to the brain

Answer 10

sensory pathway

Question 11

specific sensation produced depends on

Answer 11

how many neurons

how the neurons are fired

Question 12

1 on 1 relationship between the stimulation of nerves and specific experiencs

Answer 12

doctrine of specific nerve energies

Question 13

minimum intensity needed for energy to reach receptor cell

Answer 13

absolute threshold

Question 14

difference threshold; the smallest amount a stimuli can change and still notice a difference

Answer 14

JND just noticeable difference

Question 15

proportional noticeable difference. Depends on strength and intensity of original substance. threshold for noticing change proportional to the original

Answer 15

weber’s law

Question 16

adjustment of senses to the level of stimulation

Answer 16

adaptation

Question 17

back part of eye, where the receptors are; contains photoreceptor cells

Answer 17

retina

Question 18

contracts in bright light; opens up in darkness

Answer 18

iris

Question 19

blind spot

Answer 19

optic nerve

Question 20

center of sight; focus

Answer 20

fovea

Question 21

light goes from the __to__to___

Answer 21

pupil - lens - retina

Question 22

receptor cells responsible for night vision/ outside of fovea

Answer 22

rodds

Question 23

colors, best in relatively bright light

Answer 23

cones