Sensation Pt. 2 Vocab Terms

Question 0

blind spot

Answer 0

point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye

Question 1

optic nerve

Answer 1

nerve that carries neural impulses

Question 2

fovea

Answer 2

central focal point in the retina

Question 3

feature detectors

Answer 3

nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus

Question 4

parallel processing

Answer 4

processing of several aspects of problem simultaneously

Question 5

Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory

Answer 5

retina contains three different color receptors

Question 6

opponent process theory

Answer 6

opposing retinal processes enable color vision

Question 7

color constancy

Answer 7

familiar objects as having consistent color

Question 8

audition

Answer 8

sense or act of hearing

Question 9

frequency

Answer 9

number of complete wavelengths

Question 10

pitch

Answer 10

tone’s experienced highness or lowness

Question 11

middle ear

Answer 11

chamber between eardrum and cochlea

Question 12

cochlea

Answer 12

coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube

Question 13

inner ear

Answer 13

innermost part of the ear

Question 14

place theory

Answer 14

links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated

Question 15

frequency theory

Answer 15

rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve

Question 16

conduction hearing loss

Answer 16

hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system

Question 17

sensorineural hearing loss

Answer 17

hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea’s receptor

Question 18

cochlear implant

Answer 18

device for converting sounds into electrical signals

Question 19

gate-control theory

Answer 19

spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals

Question 20

sensory interaction

Answer 20

one sense may influence another

Question 21

kinethesis

Answer 21

system for sending the position and movement of individual body parts

Question 22

vestibular sense

Answer 22

sense of body movement and position

Question 23

tactile sense

Answer 23

sense of touch

Question 24

olfactory sense

Answer 24

sense of smell

Question 25

gustatory sense

Answer 25

sense of taste