Sensation & Perception Part 4

Question 1

Hearing Loss caused by damage in the mechanics of the outer/middle mear

Answer 1

Conduction Hearing Loss

Question 2

Impairs the conduction of sound waves to the cochlea

Answer 2

Conduction Hearing Loss

Question 3

Common as people age, hearing aids can compensate

Answer 3

Conduction Hearing Loss

Question 4

Nerve Deafness

Answer 4

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Question 5

Hearing loss caused by damage to the auditory receptors of the cochlea or to the auditory nerve due to disease, aging, or prolonged exposure to noise

Answer 5

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Question 6

Interaction with vision and hearing

Answer 6

McGurk Effect

Question 7

Illusion which auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound leading to a third sound

Answer 7

McGurk Effect

Question 8

Shows multimodal perception or the idea that out sense did not evolve separately but rather to create a complex of perceptions

Answer 8

McGurk Effect

Question 9

Sense of smell

Answer 9

Olfaction

Question 10

Sense of Taste

Answer 10

Gustation

Question 11

Both smell and taste are what type of sense?

Answer 11

Chemical Senses

Question 12

Name the 5 common sense of taste?

Answer 12

1. Salty
2. Bitter
3. Sweet
4. Sour
5. Umami

Question 13

Maintains that the “gate” in the spinal cord determines whether pain signals are permitted to reach the brain

Answer 13

Gate-Control Theory

Question 14

Gained support with the discovery of endorphins

Answer 14

Gate-Control Theory

Question 15

Principle that one sense may influence another

Answer 15

Sensory Interaction

Question 16

Influence of bodily sensations, gestures, and other states on cognitive preferences and judgements

Answer 16

Embodied Cognition

Question 17

Sense of the position and movement of the parts of the body with receptors found in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments

Answer 17

Kinesthesis

Question 18

Sense of balance, gravity, and acceleration of our heads

Answer 18

Vestibular Sense

Question 19

Three Fluid filled tubes in the inner ear and movement of fluids within each gives our brain a sense of where we are in space to keep balance

Answer 19

Semi-Circular Canals

Question 20

Focusing of conscious awareness on a stimulus out of fall of those that we are capable of experiencing

Answer 20

Selective (Focused) Attention

Question 21

We can filter out nearly everything except that voice which is the most important to us

Answer 21

Cocktail Party Effect

Question 22

Focusing on two or more tasks or stimuli

Answer 22

Divided Attention

Question 23

Screening out unwanted stimuli because it causes us anxiety or feels threatening or thought to not be important

Answer 23

Selective Inattention

Question 24

Occurs when our focus is directed at one stimulus, leaving us blind to other stimuli

Answer 24

Inattentional Blindness

Question 25

Inability to see changes in our environment when our attention is direct elsewhere

Answer 25

Change Blindness

Question 26

A certain type of inattentional blindness

Answer 26

Change Blindness

Question 27

Tendency for vision to dominate other senses

Answer 27

Visual Capture

Question 28

“Organized Whole”

Answer 28

Gestalt

Question 29

Emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful whotes

Answer 29

Gestalt

Question 30

Who was the key theorist for Gestalt

Answer 30

Max Wertheimer

Question 31

The organization of the visual field into 2 parts

Answer 31

Figure Ground

Question 32

Name the 2 parts of organizational field

Answer 32

1. Figure Ground
2. Surroundings/Background

Question 33

Perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Answer 33

Grouping

Question 34

Identified by Gestalt psychologist

Answer 34

Grouping