video quiz 5 +6

Question 1

can’t recognize his own face in the mirror

Answer 1

oliver sacks

Question 2

a neurological disorder that impairs a person’s ability to perceive or recognize faces

Answer 2

prosopagnosia

Question 3

the bottom-up process by which our senses, like vision, hearing and smell, receive and relay outside stimuli

Answer 3

sensation

Question 4

the top-down way our brains organize and interpret that information and put it into context

Answer 4

perception

Question 5

the minimum stimulation needed to register a particular stimulus fifty percent of the time

Answer 5

absolute threshold of sensation

Question 6

a model for predicting how and when a person will detect weak stimuli partly based on context

Answer 6

signal detection theory

Question 7

we perceive differences on a logarithmic not a linear scale

Answer 7

weber’s law

Question 8

ability to analyze and process information from different aspects at once

Answer 8

parallel processing

Question 9

little man

Answer 9

homonculus

Question 10

sound moves in the form of

Answer 10

waves

Question 11

long waves have a

Answer 11

low frequency

Question 12

directional streoephonic hearing only happens bc we have

Answer 12

two ears

Question 13

5th taste

Answer 13

umami

Question 14

one sense can influence the other

Answer 14

sensory interaction

Question 15

the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body

Answer 15

synesthesia

Question 16

chemical senses

Answer 16

taste and smell

Question 17

emotional registry

Answer 17

amygdala

Question 18

memory keeper

Answer 18

hippocampus

Question 19

four distinct sense sensations

Answer 19

pressure, warmth, cold, and pain

Question 20

the way your body senses its own movement and positioning

Answer 20

kinesthesis

Question 21

monitors your head’s position and your balance

Answer 21

vestibular sense