Psychology 1

Question 1

habituation vs sensory adaptation

Answer 1

habituation = psychological (attention)<div>sensory adaptation = physiological (neurons)</div>

Question 2

lens

Answer 2

PRI = positive, real, inverted

Question 3

eye focuses on a close object

Answer 3

ciliary muscles contract, curvature and power of lens increases, focal length decreases

Question 4

inner hair cells

Answer 4

transduce mechanical displacement from basilar membrane from sound into neural impulses

Question 5

outer hair cells

Answer 5

amplify sound waves

Question 6

auditory pathway

Answer 6

hair cells<a><span>→ vestibulocochlear nerve</span></a><a><span>→ brain stem</span></a><a><span>→ medial geniculate nucleus</span></a><a><span>→ auditory cortex (part of temporal lobe)</span></a>

Question 7

olfactory pathway

Answer 7

olfactory sensory neurons → olfactory nerve (cranial nerve 1) → olfactory bulb (forebrain) → amygdala/hippocampus/orbitofrontal cortex

Question 8

taste pathway

Answer 8

chemoreceptors (tastebuds) → brainstem → taste center in thalamus

Question 9

somatosensory cortex

Answer 9

in parietal lobe

Question 10

<div>visual pathway</div>

Answer 10

<div><a><span>optic nerve</span></a><a><span>→ optic chiasm</span></a><a><span>→ lateral geniculate nucleus</span></a><a><span>→ visual cortex</span></a></div>