Sensation and Perception

Question 1

Cornea

Answer 1

a curved, transparent layer covering the iris and pupil

Question 2

Synesthesia

Answer 2

Hearing colors, seeing sound, ect.

Question 3

Olfactory nerve – you could not do what?

Answer 3

Loss sense of smell

Question 4

Gustation- def- if you are missing it

Answer 4

sense of taste

Question 5

Illusion

Answer 5

perception in which the way we perceive a stimulus doesn’t match its physical reality

Question 6

Ear- part we see

Answer 6

Pinna

Question 7

Webers law

Answer 7

law stating that there is a constant proportional relationship between the JND and original stimulus intensity.

Question 8

Absolute threshold- def

Answer 8

the lowest level of a stimulus we can detect on 50 percent of trials when no other stimulus is present.

Question 9

Nose can smell ##

Answer 9

between 2,000 and 4,000 different odors.

Question 10

What carries the neural activity to the brain?

Answer 10

sensory neurons, nerves

Question 11

Cochlea

Answer 11

structure that lies in the inner ear that converts vibration into neural activity. It has a spiral shape.

Question 12

Pheromones

Answer 12

odorless chemicals that serve as social signals to members of one’s species.

Question 13

Extrasensory perception

Answer 13

perception of events outside the known channels of sensation

Question 14

what can cause hearing loss?

Answer 14

Damaged hair cells

Question 15

Sensation def

Answer 15

detection of physical energy by sense organs that send it to the brain

Question 16

perception

Answer 16

the brain’s interpretation of raw sensory inputs

Question 17

cones

Answer 17

cone-shaped receptor cells in the retina that allow us to see in color.

Question 18

Selective attention

Answer 18

process of selecting one sensory channel and ignoring or minimizing others.

Question 19

Nearsighted

Answer 19

Results when image is focused in front of cornea due to the cornea being too steep, or eyes being too long.

Question 20

What carries the visual perception to the brain

Answer 20

optic nerve

Question 21

Blindsight

Answer 21

the ability of blind people with damage to their cortex to make correct guesses about the appearance of things around them

Question 22

Tounge- bumps and they have what on the

Answer 22

Taste buds, sense receptors

Question 23

Parallel processing def

Answer 23

attending to many sense modalities simultaneously, multitasking