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A system in which information is conducted in a single route through its various components is called a

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serial system

2
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The sense of touch is largely

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exteroceptive

3
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Which of the following is not one of the major principles of sensory system organization

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push-pull processing

4
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The frequency of souns is to the complexity of sound waves as the

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pitch of sound is to the timbre

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The malleus, incus, and stapes

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are small bones that transmit vibration from the ear drum to the oval window

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Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel’s disks, and Ruffini endings are

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receptors in the skin

7
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In most of the mammals that have been studied, auditory cortex lesions produce

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a deficit in the ability to localize sounds

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An area of cerebral cortex that receives input form more than one sensory system is classified as

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association cortex

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Because sensory systems are characterized by functional segregation while perception is largely holistic, there is a

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binding problem

10
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Because we can discriminate among thousands of different odors and each receptor responds to many odors, coding in the olfactory system has been assumed to operate according to

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component processing

11
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The perception of both pain and temperature changes are largely mediated by

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free nerve endings

12
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The mechanisms of selective attention are

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top-down and bottom-up