M6 Sensory Systems & Vision

Question 1

Sensory information that comes primarily from sources in the muscles and joints and from bodily movement is called

Answer 1

Proprioception

Question 2

Structure located in parallel with muscle fibers that provides information about muscle length

Answer 2

Muscle spindle

Question 3

Small stretch receptors located in the tendons that provide precise information about muscle tension

Answer 3

Golgi tendon organ

Question 4

Information about touch is relayed from the thalamus to the

Answer 4

Parietal lobe

Question 5

Information about audition (hearing) is relayed from the thalamus to the

Answer 5

Temporal lobe

Question 6

TF: Information about smell is relayed from the thalamus to the occipital lobe

Answer 6

False

Question 7

What is associated with frontal lobe (VIA)

Answer 7

Voluntary motor function
IQ Center
Aggression

Question 8

Images expanding faster on the retina are

Answer 8

Approaching faster

Question 9

What is the name of the variable providing optical information about time-to-contact?

Answer 9

Tau

Question 10

Visual information, used specifically for the identification of objects within the visual environment, that is sent from the eye to the inferotemporal cortex

Answer 10

Ventral stream

Question 11

Visual information travels from the retina to this part of the brain

Answer 11

Primary visual cortex

Question 12

Visual information, used specifically for the control of movement within the visual environment, that is sent from the eye to the posterior partietal cortex

Answer 12

Dorsal stream

Question 13

TF: In the Titchener-Ebbinghaus and Muller-Lyer illusions, it is the ventral stream (not the dorsal stream) that is ‘fooled’ by the illusion

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The “Moving Room” experiments provided evidence for:

Answer 14

Visual dominance

Question 15

Sensory information from within body

Answer 15

Interoceptors

Question 16

Sensory information from outside the body

Answer 16

Exteroceptors

Question 17

Vision, Hearing, Smell are examples of

Answer 17

Exteroceptors

Question 18

Where does Afferent Information go? (3)

Question 19

4 Cerebral lobes (FPTO)

Question 20

Lobe dealing with touch

Answer 20

Parietal lobe

Question 21

Lobe dealing with hearing and olfactory

Answer 21

Temporal lobe

Question 22

Lobe dealing with vision

Answer 22

Occipital lobe

Question 23

Frontal lobe of cerebrum & limbic system form

Answer 23

Intention to ACT

Question 24

Receives a copy of the
motor commands sent out
to muscles (effectors) =
“efference copy” & is used as reference of comparison

Answer 24

Cerebellum

Question 25

TEST: The 3 stages of information processing occur in which component of the closed loop control system?

Answer 25

Executive (control center)

Question 26

Images expanding slower on retina are approaching...

Answer 26

Slower

Question 27

Brain damage occurring to the parietal lobe (Dorsal stream) -Able to identify objects but have difficulty interacting with them

Answer 27

Optic Ataxia

Question 28

Brain damage occurring to the temporal lobe (Ventral stream) -Able to interact with objects but difficulty identifying what they are

Answer 28

Visual Agnosia