Chapter 6: Haptic System and Its Components

Question 1

Geometric information and the ______ ______ yield or yields contact information and that in certain _____ combinations they yield information specifying the layout of external surfaces

Answer 1

Joints yield geometrical information

The skin yields contact information

and that in certain invariant combinations they yield information specifying external surfaces

Question 2

Any change in the pattern of contacts with the skin, is _____ (changes at the same time) and ______ (happens at the same time) with a change in the branching of bones.

Answer 2

covariant

concomitant

Question 3

There is a particular ______ between skin kinesthesis and joint kinesthesis which specifies a particular external layout of surfaces.

Answer 3

(invariant unity)

Question 4

Haptic system

Answer 4

The sensibility of the individual to the world adjacent to his body by the use of his body

Question 5

the original sense of touch can be divided into 5 senses of:

Answer 5

Pressure
Warm
Cold
Pain
Kinesthesis

Question 6

The haptic system includes the

Answer 6

WHOLE BODY, most of its parts, and all of the surfaces

Question 7

Movements fall into the hierarchy from ___ movements at the shoulder to ____ movements at the fingertip

Answer 7

Large (pg 102)

Small

Question 8

The hierarchy of the body and posture being connected to an superordinate system allows blind people to know where they are

Answer 8

Page 102

Blind man will feel the shape of a chair and the shape of his body in the chair

Question 9

Articulations or joints between bones are two kinds

Answer 9

Cylinder-and-socket type (bend like hinges)

Ball-and-socket type (bend like hinge and turned)

Question 10

The branching vector space of the body in the larger space of the environment is specified by

Answer 10

The SET of the angles of all joints, relative to the main axis of the body Pg 102 second paragraph
-Must say this answer word for word

Question 11

Cutaneous touch reenters the picture, for the layout of environmental surfaces in contact with the members of the body and the disposition of the members of the body

Answer 11

go together (pg 102 i think)

Question 12

An insect who grasps something with his mandibles or feels it with his antennae detects the object and gets information in a way

Answer 12

quite different from those of a vertebrate animal

pg 104 top sentence

Question 13

specific adjective probing, groping, etc

Answer 13

pg 104 chapter 6

Question 14

When the physiologist attempts to stimulate physical action in order to construct a metric of psychophysics, he gets a great deal of help from the field of physics

Answer 14

false (pg 105)

Question 15

Tendons

Answer 15

Attach muscles to bones

Question 16

Bearings held together by

Answer 16

Ligaments

Question 17

Muscle sensitivity

Answer 17

Is irrelevant for the perception of space and movement, but joint sensitivity is very important for