Chapter 5

Question 0

How to interpret signals

Answer 0

Perception

Question 1

Processing and detecting neural signals

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

Taking in the stimuli

Answer 2

Bottom up processing

Question 3

Based on experience and expectations

Answer 3

Top down processing

Question 4

Physical stimuli - mental phenomena

Answer 4

Psychophysics

Question 5

Minimum stimulation required

Answer 5

Absolute threshold

Question 6

Detecting weak signals

Answer 6

Signal detection theory

Question 7

Signals below awareness

Answer 7

Subliminal

Question 8

Unconscious activation

Answer 8

Priming

Question 9

Difference between two stimuli

Answer 9

Difference threshold

Question 10

In order to be different, must differ by certain %

Answer 10

Webers Law

Question 11

Diminishing sensitivity

Answer 11

Sensory adaptation

Question 12

Encoded sensory input

Answer 12

Transduction

Question 13

Distance between waves. Colors

Answer 13

Wavelength and hues

Question 14

Energy determined by brightness

Answer 14

Intensity

Question 15

Lets in light

Answer 15

Pupil

Question 16

Muscles around pupil controlling light intake

Answer 16

Iris

Question 17

behind retina/ focusing

Answer 17

Lens

Question 18

Flexible (of lens)

Answer 18

Accommodation

Question 19

Sensitive area with cones and rods

Answer 19

Retina

Question 20

Sharpness of vision

Answer 20

Acuity

Question 21

Eye too long - focus infront of fovea

Answer 21

Nearsightedness

Question 22

Eye too short, focus behind fovea

Answer 22

Farsightedness

Question 23

Twilight and color

Answer 23

Rods and cones

Question 24

Nerve that carries impulses to brain from eyes

Answer 24

Optic nerve

Question 25

Where optic nerve leaves the eye

Answer 25

Blind spot

Question 26

Central focal point - cluster of cones

Answer 26

Fovea

Question 27

Detecting lines, edges, angles

Answer 27

Feature detectors

Question 28

Simultaneously processing several aspects of a problem or image

Answer 28

Parallel processing

Question 29

Blue, red, green produce every color

Answer 29

Young Helmholtz Trichromatic

Question 30

Opposing colors, blue/yellow, white/black, red/green

Answer 30

Opponent process theory

Question 31

Difference in Illumination still makes the color constant but appears different

Answer 31

Color constancy

Question 32

Hearing

Answer 32

Audition

Question 33

Amplitude/loudness

Answer 33

Frequency

Question 34

High and low sound

Answer 34

Pitch

Question 35

Amplifies sound

Answer 35

Middle ear

Question 36

Coiled fluid filled tube, triggers neural impulses

Answer 36

Cochlea

Question 37

Transduction of sound

Answer 37

Inner ear

Question 38

Links pitch to place (high)

Answer 38

Place theory

Question 39

Rate of impulses/matching cochlea/ matches frequency in tone

Answer 39

Frequency theory

Question 40

Damage to mechanical system that conducts waves

Answer 40

Conduction hearing loss

Question 41

Damage to receptor cells (nerve deafness)

Answer 41

Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 42

Device that converts sound. For conduction hearing loss

Answer 42

Cochlear implant

Question 43

Spinal cord blocks pain and allows signals through

Answer 43

Gate control theory

Question 44

One sense may influence another - smell and taste

Answer 44

Sensory interaction

Question 45

Body movement

Answer 45

Kinesthesis

Question 46

Sense of movement and balance

Answer 46

Vestibular sense