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Unit 3 Pt 2: Sensation And Perception Flashcards

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Color consistency

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I look at an object and know it has color even if light changes to alter the wavelength given off by the object

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We only retain color constancy when the _____ remains the same

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Color

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Context affects

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Color

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Hearing: loudness of a sound is determined by

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A wave’s amplitude

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Frequency

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Number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time

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Frequency determines

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The sound pitch

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Pitch

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Tones of highness or lowness

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Hearing is measured in

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Decibels

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Zero decibel is considered

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The threshold of hearing

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Outer ear job

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Gather sound waves to the eardrum

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Outer ear parts

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Auditory canal and eardrum

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Outer ear function word

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GATHER

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Middle ear function word

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AMPLIFY

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Middle ear job

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Amplify and concentrate the vibrations into cochlea’s oval window

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Middle ear parts

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Ossicles

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Middle ear: 3 tiny bones

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Hammer, anvil, and stirrup

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Middle ear Hammer AKA

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Malleus

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Middle ear anvil AKA

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Incus

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Middle ear stirrup AKA

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Stapes

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Inner ear function word

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TRANSDUCTION

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Inner ear job

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Change sound waves into neural impulses

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Inner ear parts

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Oval window, cochlea, basilar

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Sound waves enter through

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Outer ear

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Sound waves enter through outer ear and are transmitted through a thin membrane called the

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Eardrum (tympanic membrane)

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Ear drum aka

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tympanic membrane

26
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The hammer connects the eardrum to the ______ of the middle ear

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Ossicles

27
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Fluid filled membrane in the inner ear transmits neural vibration

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Cochlea

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Hair cells

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In the process they bend and send neural impulses which form the auditory nerve that defends messages to the brain?

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Semicircular canals connected to cochlea contain

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Substance that move when our head rotates or tilts and allows us to maintain our vestibular sense

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Vestibular sense

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Body movement, balance, position

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Sense of body part’s position located throughout the body

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Kinesthesis

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Kinesthesis feels

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Where body is without vision

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Kinesthesis example

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Joints

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Ossicles function

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Hammer and amplify sounds to the oval window

35
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Oval window

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The connecting point between the middle ear and the fluid filled inner ear

36
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Hemholtz place theory

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We hear pitches because different sound waves trigger activity at different places in the cochlea membrane

37
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Hemholtz Place theory easily explains

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High pitches since there pitches are highly located

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Hemholtz theory determines

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Pitches in the area to different places in the cochlea

39
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Frequency theory one word

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Vibration

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Frequency theory

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We sense pitch by the basilar membrane in the cochlea vibrating at the same rate as the sound

41
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Frequency theory explains

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Low pitch well

42
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Why is having 2 ears important?

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The sound hits one ear then the other

43
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Conductive hearing loss in the

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Outer or middle ear

44
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Conductive hearing loss caused by

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Damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea like eardrum and ossicles

45
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Solution of conductive hearing loss

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Buy hearing aid. It will take over the job of ossicles

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Sensorineural hearing loss: damage caused to

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Cochlea’s receptor cells (hair cells) or auditory nerves

47
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Solution to sensorineural hearing loss

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Cochlea implant

48
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Older people suffer most hearing loss with

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Frequency sounds

49
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Gate control theory

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Spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain

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Small nerve fibers in gate control theory

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Conduct pain signals

51
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Gate closed by the activity in LARGER NERVE FIBERS or by information coming from the brain

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Putting ice so you won’t feel the pain

52
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Pain is both a

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Physiological and a psychological phenomenon

53
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Depending on symptoms for pain, doctors by use

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Drugs, surgery, etc. of relaxation training, thought distraction.

54
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Lamaze method

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Rhythmic breathing techniques

55
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Why are taste and smell studied together?

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They’re both chemical senses

Smell influences taste

56
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Tongue

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Central muscle for taste which contains taste buds

57
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Smell runs through

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Receptor cells in the nasal cavity which send neural signals to the brain

58
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Umami

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Savory taste activated by glutamate

59
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The colder the food

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The less you can taste it

60
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Sense of smell activates areas in

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Limbic system involved in
emotion: amygdala
And memory: hippocampus

61
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Smell can often evoke

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Memories of the pat or emotional experiences more often that most other senses

(Smell or crazy ex)

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