Chap4: Sensation And Perception

Question 0

Light-sensitive tissue lining the back of the eyeball.

Answer 0

Retina

Monaku

Question 1

The ability to see fine detail.

Answer 1

Visual acuity

Question 2

The process by which the eye maintains a clear image on the retina.

Answer 2

Accommodation

コンタクト

Question 3

Length of light waves

Answer 3

Hey or color

Question 4

Light waves of amplitude

Answer 4

Brightness

Question 5

The number of light waves

Answer 5

Tasty ration and richness of coler

Question 6

Photo receptors that detect cooler, operate under normal daylight conditions, and allow us to focus on fine detail.

Answer 6

Cones

Question 7

Photoreceptors that become active under low-light conditions for night vision.

Answer 7

Rods

Question 8

An area of the retina where vision is the clearest and there are no rods at all.

Answer 8

Fovea

Question 9

The region of the sensory surface that, when stimulated, causes a change in the firing rare of that neuron.

Answer 9

Receptive field

Question 10

The pattern of responding across the three types of cones that provides a unique code for each color.

Answer 10

Trichromatic color representation

Question 11

Pairs of visual neurons that work I. Opposition.

Answer 11

Color-opponent system

Question 12

The part of the occipital lobe that contains the primary visual cortex.
Encoding edge orientation.

Answer 12

Area V1

Question 13

Represent an object’s shape and identity

Go down

Answer 13

Ventral stream

Question 14

To identity the location and motion of an object

Up

Answer 14

Dorsal stream

Question 15

The inability to recognize object by sight

Ex: card no

Answer 15

Visual-form agnosia

Question 16

How features are linked together so that we see unified object in our visual world rather than free-floating or miscombined features

Answer 16

Binding problem

Question 17

A perceptual mistake wheee features from multiple objects are incorrectly combined.

Answer 17

Illusory conjunction

Misunderstanding what they saw
Bluex > red A

Question 18

The idea that focused attention is not required to detect the individual features that comprise a stimulus but is required to bind those individual features together.

Answer 18

Feature integration theory

Question 19

A perceptual principle stating that even as aspects of sensory signals change, perception remains consistent.

Answer 19

Perceptual constancy

Question 20

A mental representation that can be directly compared to a viewed shape in the retinal image

Answer 20

Template

Question 21

Aspects of a scene that yield information about depth when viewed with only one eye

Answer 21

Monocular depth cues

Question 22

The difference in the retinal images of the two eyes that provides information about depth

Answer 22

Binocular disparity

Ex: interposition, etc

Question 23

The perception of movement as a result of alternating signals appearing in rapid succession in different locations

Answer 23

Apparent motion

Question 24

When people fail detect change to the visual details of a scene

Answer 24

Change blindness

Question 25

How high or low a sound is

Answer 25

pitch

Question 26

A sound's intensity

Answer 26

Loudness

Question 27

A fluid-filled tube that is the organ of auditory transduction

Answer 27

Cochlea

Question 28

A structure in the inner ear that undulates when vibrations from the ossicles reach the cochlea fluid

Answer 28

basilar membrane

Question 29

Specialized auditory receptor neurons embedded in the basilar membrane

Answer 29

Hair cells

Question 30

A portion of the temporal lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex

Answer 30

Area A1

Question 31

The cochlea encodes different frequencies at different locations along the basilar membrane

Answer 31

Place cord

Question 32

The cochlea registers low frequencies via the firing rate of actin potentials entering the auditory nerve.

Answer 32

Temporal code

Question 33

The active exploration of the environment by touching and grasping objects with our hands.

Answer 33

Hepatic perception

Question 34

Feeling of pain when sensory information from internal and external areas converges on the same nerve cels in the spiral cord

Answer 34

Refereed pain

Question 35

A theory of pain perception based on the idea that signals arriving from pain receptors in the body can be stooped, or gated, by interneurons I'm the spinal cord via feedback from two directions

Answer 35

Gate-control theory

Question 36

The tree fluid-filled semicircular and adjacent organs located next to the cochlea in each inner ear.

Answer 36

Vestibular system

Question 37

Receptor cells hat initiate the sense of smell

Answer 37

Olfactory receptor neurons ORNs

Question 38

A brain structure located above the nasal cavity beneath the frontal lobes

Answer 38

Olfactory bulb

Question 39

Biochemical odorants emitted by other members of its spices that can affect an animal's behavior or physiology

Answer 39

Pheromones