Psych chapter 3

Question 1

The process through which the senses detect sensory information and transmit it to the brain is called?

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

What is not true about the sensory receptors?

Answer 2

That they are located in the brain

Question 3

The just noticeable difference (JND) is what?

Answer 3

The smallest change in sensation a person can reliably detect.

Question 4

Each morning when Jackie goes to work at the dry cleaner, she smells the strong odor of cleaning fluid. After she is there for a few minutes, she is no longer aware of it. What accounts for this?

Answer 4

Sensory Adaptation.

Question 5

The order in which light move towards the eye is?

Answer 5

Cornea, Iris, Lens

Question 6

The receptor cells in the retina that enable us to see in dim light are the?

Answer 6

Rods

Question 7

The cells that enable us to see color and sharp images are the?

Answer 7

Cones

Question 8

True or False: Most people who are color blind see no color at all.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Pitch is Determined by?

Answer 9

Frequency

Question 10

Loudness is determined by?

Answer 10

Amplitude

Question 11

The middle ear has three small bones called ossicles. What is not one of those bones?

Answer 11

A wrench

Question 12

Fluid movements that stimulates the hair cells in the ear occur in the?

Answer 12

cochlea

Question 13

The two major theories that attempt to explain hearing are?

Answer 13

Place theory and frequency theory

Question 14

blank is usually caused by disease or injury to the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear, with the result that sound waves cannot be conducted to the cochlea.

Answer 14

Conductive hearing loss.

Question 15

Olfaction is to gustation as blank is to * blank*

Answer 15

Smell is to taste

Question 16

Our ability to identify foods with similar texture is most influenced by our sense of?

Answer 16

Smell

Question 17

The receptor cells for taste have what?

Answer 17

Have a lifespan of about ten days and continuously replace themselves.

Question 18

Which is not one of the four basic tastes?

Answer 18

Bland

Question 19

True or False: The two-point threshold varies for different body parts.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Which theory states that pain signals can be either transmitted or inhibited by an area in the spinal cord?

Answer 20

Gate control Theory

Question 21

Which sense provides information about the position of our body parts in relation to one another and about movement in those body parts.

Answer 21

The kinesthetic sense.

Question 22

The receptors for the blank sense is located in the semicircular canals and vestibular sacs of the blank

Answer 22

Vestibular ; Inner ear

Question 23

Camouflage blurs the distinction between?

Answer 23

Figure and ground

Question 24

When Tommy looks down at the cars on the highway from a plane, he realizes that, although the cars appear very small, they are still big enough for people to get into them. Tommy is displaying his ability to engage in?

Answer 24

Size constancy

Question 25

Relative size, linear perspective, texture gradient, and interposition are all examples of?

Answer 25

Monocular cues for perception of depth

Question 26

An illusion is a?

Answer 26

A misperception of a real stimulus

Question 27

Shenae takes a drink of some purple juice and finds that it tastes odd, But it seems to be grape flavored. It turns out that it was apple juice that had purple dye added to it. The reason Shenae reported tasting grape was due to?

Answer 27

The perceptual set.