5.1 Senses, Sensation, and Perception

Question 1

perception

Answer 1

begins when a stimulus from the environment stimulates the sense organs. The sense organ tranduces the input into neuronal activity, which then goes to the brain for processing.

Question 2

sensation

Answer 2

Initial activation of the nervous system, the translation of information about the environment into patterns of neural activity.

Question 3

percept

Answer 3

Mental representation of that original stimulus

Question 4

sense

Answer 4

our physiological capacities to provide input from the environment to our neurological system

Question 5

adaption

Answer 5

tThis is the adjustment of the sensory system’s sensitivity to the current environment and to important changes in the environment.

Question 6

Range

Answer 6

Each sensory modality responds to a limited range of stimuli. This range is not the same for all species. As limited as our receptor cells may be, we do respond to a wide range of stimulus intensities.

Question 7

Acuity

Answer 7

Our sensory systems are tuned to respond to different sources of information in the environment. How well we can distinguish among stimuli within a sensory modality, or what we would call acuity

Question 8

Saccades

Answer 8

Rapid eye movements, they occur three to four times a second