Chapter 7 Flashcards
A system in which information is conducted in a single route through its various components is called a
serial system
The sense of touch is largely
exteroceptive
Which of the following is not one of the major principles of sensory system organization
push-pull processing
The frequency of souns is to the complexity of sound waves as the
pitch of sound is to the timbre
The malleus, incus, and stapes
are small bones that transmit vibration from the ear drum to the oval window
Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel’s disks, and Ruffini endings are
receptors in the skin
In most of the mammals that have been studied, auditory cortex lesions produce
a deficit in the ability to localize sounds
An area of cerebral cortex that receives input form more than one sensory system is classified as
association cortex
Because sensory systems are characterized by functional segregation while perception is largely holistic, there is a
binding problem
Because we can discriminate among thousands of different odors and each receptor responds to many odors, coding in the olfactory system has been assumed to operate according to
component processing
The perception of both pain and temperature changes are largely mediated by
free nerve endings
The mechanisms of selective attention are
top-down and bottom-up
