Test 2

Question 1

What is perception?

Answer 1

The process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting the sensation.

Question 2

Transduction?

Answer 2

Physical energy is changed into a coded neural signal, processed by the nervous system

Question 3

What is absolute threshold? Examples?

Answer 3

Using the smallest strength of stimulus that can be detected half the time. Ex: hearing fingers rub together at a certain spot.

Question 4

What is the difference threshold

Answer 4

Smallest possible difference between two stimuli that can be detected half the time Ex. Two bags of pennies that weigh slightly different

Question 5

What is weber’s law?

Answer 5

The bigger the original stimulus the more it will take to tell the difference. Ex. Lowering OZ tuna

Question 6

What is subliminal perception?

Answer 6

Detection of stimuli that are below the threshold of conscious awareness. Congress made it illegal

Question 7

Sensory adaptation?

Answer 7

Decline of sensitivity to a constant stimulus. Hot tub, smell of candle

Question 8

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 8

Face blindness

Question 9

What is priming?

Answer 9

is the implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later stimulus. Ex. Money and helping people

Question 10

What are the 7 senses called and their scientific names

Answer 10

1) hearing - audition
2) vision - optic
3) smell- olfaction
4) taste- gustation
5) touch- tactile
6) movement- kinesthetic
7) balance- vestibular

Question 11

ESP-

Answer 11

Extra sensory perception of information by some means other than the normal processes

Question 12

What is Parapsycholgy?

Answer 12

The scientific claims of paranormal phenomena and abilities

Question 13

Depth perception?

Answer 13

Use of visual cues to perceive the distance of three dimensional characteristics of objects

Question 14

Monocular cues?

Answer 14

Distance and depth cues processed by one eye.

Question 15

Binocular cues?

Answer 15

Distance or depth cues that require the use of both eyes

Question 16

Do we have depth perception when we are born?

Answer 16

Yes but not till a month after crawling

Question 17

Mueller-lyer illusion?

Answer 17

Visual illusion where the center line appears longer when arrows point outward and middle line appears shorter when arrows point inward.

Question 18

What is the McGurk effect?

Answer 18

Auditory illusion of visible face movements to normal speech perception. Vision can overpower what we are hearing

Question 19

Sensory interaction?

Answer 19

Interaction of the senses to each other and how they influence each other. Ex: taste and smell: food tastes more bland when a person plugs his nose.

Question 20

What is fusiform gyrus?

Answer 20

Are of the brain that damaged can create faceblindness

Question 21

What is sensation?

Answer 21

Detecting a physical stimulus, such as light, sound, heat, pain.

Question 22

Fallacy of positive instances?

Answer 22

Tendency to remember coincidences that seem to confirm our beliefs. Ex: I was just thinking of u when u called me.

Question 23

What is gestalt psychology?

Answer 23

School founded in Germany, says are sensations are actively processed according to consistent rules. Meaningful whole perceptions

Question 24

Figure-ground-relationship?

Answer 24

A gestalt relationship says we automatically separate perception into a feature that stands out ( figure) and a background (ground)

Question 25

Similarity?

Answer 25

Perceive objects of a similar size, shape, or color as a unit.

Question 26

Closure-

Answer 26

Tendency to fill in the gaps in an incomplete image

Question 27

Continuation?

Answer 27

Tendency to group elements that appear to follow the same direction as a single unit

Question 28

Proximity?

Answer 28

Tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as a single unit

Question 29

What are some things that can effect our perception of pain?

Answer 29

Fast and slow pain receptors

Question 30

What are fast and slow pain receptors?

Answer 30

Fast have myelinated axons and cannot be reduced by endorphins and morphine.
Slow have un myelinated axons