Chapter 4 Flashcards
Where vision is the clearest
Fovea
Part of the ear that undulates vibrations
Basilar Membrane
The five basic tastes are: salt, sour, bitter, sweet, and spicy
false
Your other senses, and expectations, impact how much you enjoy the taste of something
True
You just started a new job as the cook on a pirate ship. You have never done this before, so you watch what everyone is doing, look at the surrounding, and gather as much information as you can before you start to make the first meal.
Bottom-up processing
Why would pirates have difficulty with binocular cues
Their eye-patch would interfere
When you get into a cold pool it feels freezing, but as you stay in longer the temperature becomes more manageable maybe even comfortable. This is because of___
Sensory Adaptation
Amplitude of light wavelengths effect___
Brightness
Maintaining Balance depends primarily on the___
Vestibular System
If you were a bank robber, and your accomplice is putting money in your backpack, you will probably feel the difference when she adds one bar of gold to the first one already in your bag. But you tend not to notice when she adds the 11th bar as much. This is___
Weber’s Law
If you are driving down a road in the middle of a snow storm and you are starting at at stop sign for a long time… but then you look to your side at a pure white snow bank and it appears as if you are seeing a green stop sign. This would be:
Opponent-process theory
The human eyes can see a spectrum of about 50% of the electromagnetic spectrum
False
In signal detection theory, people who are liberal___compared to people who are conservative___
Respond yes more than no // Respond no more than yes
If an animal has a smaller brain than a human, but has a specific sense that is much much better than humans this would mean:
The region of the brain dedicated to that sense will be much larger proportionately
Rods
Photorecepter cells that primarly support nighttime vision
