Info processing stimulus identification

Question 1

Peripheral processes: Involve activation of ______ ______, (exteroceptors, proprioceptors). activation of _______, transmission of info to and from _____

Answer 1

sensory receptors
muscles
CNS

Question 2

Information processing model

Answer 2

Sensory Receptors
Stimulus Identification
Response Selection
Response programming
muscles

Question 3

The central processes include

Answer 3

Stimulus Identification
response selection
response programming

Question 4

stimulus identification includes: S & P

Answer 4

Sensation-detecting and selecting stimuli
Perception-Interpreting stimuli, recognizing

Question 5

Response Selection

Answer 5

Making decision, selecting response

Question 6

Response programming

Answer 6

Organizing and initiating action

Question 7

Reaction time is a

Answer 7

measure of processing demands

Question 8

Sensory receptors take ___ms

Answer 8

20

Question 9

Stimulus identification take ____ ms

Answer 9

80

Question 10

response selection takes ___ ms

Answer 10

80

Question 11

Response programming takes __ ms

Answer 11

50

Question 12

muscles take ___ ms

Answer 12

20

Question 13

reaction time takes _____ ms

Answer 13

250 ms

Question 14

what are the 2 visual systems

Answer 14

focal (cognitive) vision
ambient (motor) vision

Question 15

focal (cognitive) vision includes:

Answer 15

concerned with events in central vision
linked to consciousness (tells us what things are)

Question 16

ambient (motor) vision includes

Answer 16

functions without consciousness
available for entire field of vision
not seriously affected by decreased illumination

Question 17

focal vision allows us to _____ objects in environment

Answer 17

identify

Question 18

ambient vision _____ _____ _____

Answer 18

controls our action

Question 19

visual agnosia means

Answer 19

focal system is affected

cannot recognize objects, faces, pictures
person navigate through environment
can grasp objects accurately

Question 20

two characteristics of sound waves

Answer 20

amplitude and frequency

Question 21

components of the auditory system(ear)

Answer 21

ear drum
hammer
stirrup
anvil

Question 22

how does sound travel

Answer 22

in waves by consisting of compressions and expansions at air molecules

Question 23

sound waves have different _____ and frequencies

Answer 23

amplitude

Question 24

the saccule senses

Answer 24

vertical motion

Question 25

the utricle senses

Answer 25

horizontal motion

Question 26

semi-circular canals sense

Answer 26

rotation movement of its head

Question 27

the vestibular system provides info about _____ of head with respect to _____

Answer 27

position
gravity

Question 28

muscles spindles sense the _____ in muscle

Answer 28

stretch in muscle, contraction of same muscle

Question 29

golgi tendon organs feel the stretch then

Answer 29

relax the muscles

Question 30

optic ataxia means the _____ system is affected

Answer 30

ambient
ability to see/recognize objects

person is not able to move their hand towards them and grasp them, cannot position fingers or adjust orientation of hand correctly

Question 31

ambient visual system supplies an important source of helping maintain ________

Answer 31

balance

Question 32

D. F. suffered from ______ ________

Answer 32

visual agnosia (due to brain damage from carbon monoxide intoxication)

Question 33

cones are
located in
serve _____ vision
serve _____ vision

Answer 33

located in and around the fovea
serve central vision
serve color vision

Question 34

If the parts of the brain that serve the ambient visual system are damaged (optic ataxia), _________.

Answer 34

the person still has the ability to recognize objects

Question 35

golgi tendon organs
have a ______ function
respond to stretch by _____ further muscle contraction
are P________

Answer 35

protective function
inhibiting
proprioceptors