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1
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After spending several days in a deep meditative state, members of a remote tribal… breaking things what most likely explains why they feel no pain

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Belief induced analgesia

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The major gate in the gate control theory of pain is the point where pain sensory neurons enter the ___ and synapse on the second order pain neurons

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Spinal cord and brain stem

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The____ organ is found in the most mammals and contains receptor cells that specialize in responding to pheromones

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Vomeronasal

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_____ proposes that detecting a stimulus is based on both the physical intensity of the stimulus and the psychological states of the perceiver

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Signal detection theory

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Research on pain sensitivity following injury suggests that generally____

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Heightened sensitivity to pain at the injury site because of changes sensitivity in CNS

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The ossicles increase the pressure exerted by the sound waves on the inner ear by funneling the pressure from the_____

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Tympanic membrane to the smaller oval window

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Individual vowel and consonant sounds that make up words are called?

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Phonemes

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8
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Which statement concerning bekesys traveling wave theory is true?

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timing of vibration on the basilar membrane for sounds below about 4000 Hz

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Which statement is an actual research finding that supports bitter taste

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Pregnant women are more sensitive

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If a pianos notes were getting softer and higher pitched, its ____ as measured in ____ would be decreasing and its ____ as measured in ____ would be increasing

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Amplitude, decibels, frequency, hertz

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Experiments have shown that peoples ability to identify foods by flavor

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Declines when both nostrils are shut

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All the areas below are areas of the brain that are involved in the experience of pain except, the___

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Visual cortex

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13
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A cochlear implant is a hearing aid that:

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Transforms sounds into electrical impulses that stimulate auditory nerves

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Genevieve was on a hike and got attacked, she felt no pain why?

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Stress induced analgesia

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thin, porous bone in which the axons of the olfactory sensory neurons pass through

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Cribiform plate

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You is studying the sense of smell and the olfactory area. What part of the brain should Yu be focusing on

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Temporal Lobe

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Larissa prefers to drink a big cup of tea and Jayden prefers a smaller cup, they vary alone ___ dimension

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quantitative

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18
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Where can free nerve endings be found

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wherever pain is sensed

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Which statement is an explanation for the trigger of phantom-limb pain

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The lack of sensory input removes a source of inhibition to the brain

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the neurons near the proximal end of the basilar membrane fire rapidly, while other neurons on the membrane barely fires. The brain interprets this as?

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A high pitched sound

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21
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Josh is working in the yard and hears a bug, before he hears the bug the receptor cells must produce an electrical change in response to the sound which is what

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Transduction

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22
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Andrea is studying psychophysics. She holds 30 marbles, what law should she use

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Webers law

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Before the 1920s, scientists believed that basilar membrane acted like harp strings. George bekesy discovered the membrane behaves like:

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A bed sheet

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24
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In pain reduction which is most likely to mediate the placebo effect

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Endorphins

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25
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Corey goes to the doctor because his right ear hurts. What part of Coreys ear ruptured?

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Tympanic membrane

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26
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All statements concerning the senses are true except

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Each sense is capable of producing conscious sensory experiences

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27
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Which occurs because different receptors are responding to energy

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Coding of stimulus quality

28
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All are qualitative dimensions of sensory coding except

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Loudness of two tones at the same pitch

29
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Demetria listens to music, sound waves are transported inward to her

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Cochle

30
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People with the condition known as asymbolia for pain

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Perceive painful stimuli but don’t feel a normal desire

31
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Sensory adaptation is mediated by

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Receptor cells and the central nervous system

32
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Older people and fire alarms

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Sense of smell declines

33
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_____ proposes that detecting a stimulus is based on both the physical intensity of the Stimulus

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Signal detection theory

34
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If hair cells got destroyed what’s the most noticeable difference

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Loss in ability to hear high frequency

35
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What can work on humans not rats

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Belief induced analgesia

36
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Position on the basilar membrane at which the sound waves peak

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Frequency of the sound

37
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According to webers law difference for stimulus is?

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Constant proportion of the magnitude of the original

38
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___ are fast conducting fibers

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A delta fibers

39
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Which describes transduction

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Hair cells on the basilar membrane bend tectorial

40
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According to georg bekesy the auditory system codes pitch in terms of

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Rate of firing from various places

41
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Neurons in the primary auditory cortex are tonotopically organized which means

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Each neuron is systematically arranged

42
Q

Sergi and Natasha’s offspring would benefit from

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Having the different mhcs

43
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What is true about PAG

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electrical simulation can reduce chronic pain

44
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psychophysics is?

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physical stimuli and sensory experience

45
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pheromones

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Chemical substance that is released to promote behavioral response.

46
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sensation is described as?

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physiological response

47
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sensory adaptation is mediated by?

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changes in the central nervous system

48
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gate control theory of pain

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the experience of pain depends on the extent

49
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Research finding concerning the philology of smell indicate from the glomeruli

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The limbic system and hypothalamus for emotion

50
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what part of the ear is designed to receive sound waves and funnel them?

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outer ear

51
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relationship between chewing and swallowing is?

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chewing and swallowing push air from the mouth

52
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Fragrance in the kitchen from Rasindu?

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sensation, perception

53
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Trash can fell in front of people who can detect it

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Left or right

54
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what recently got added to primary taste?

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Fat

55
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____ is an illusion in which people hear missing sounds of words

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phonemic restoration

56
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if a sounds amplitude were increasing and frequency decreasing what is the pitched

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louder and lower

57
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preservation of neural responses to a stimulus and info

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sensory coding

58
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sensory areas in the cerebral cortex

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receive signals sent along sense-specific pathways in the central nervous system

59
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which part of the olfactory system contains the sensitive ends of olfactory sensory neurons

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olfactory epithelium

60
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As mask listens to Beethovens 5th symphony on the radio, this electrical preservation of both what is this referred to

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sensory coding

61
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free nerve endings are sensitive terminals of the receptors for the sense of:

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pain

62
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which occurs because different receptors in a given sensory system are tuned to respond to somewhat different forms of energy

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coding of stimulus quality

63
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the term endorphin:

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endogenous morphine like substance

64
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what is not one of the somatosenses

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smell

65
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scientists know the stress induced analgesia is mediate by endorphins because rats injected with endorphins

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blockers and then subjected to stress

66
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the coding of stimulus quantity is based on

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the rate of action potential

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