Other Senses & Perceptual Processes

Question 1

The skin sensations: touch/pressure, warmth, cold, and pain

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Somatosensation

Question 2

Pain is experienced only if the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain

Answer 2

Gate-control theory

Question 3

Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of your body with receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints

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Kinesthesis

Question 4

Has receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints

Answer 4

Kinesthesis

Question 5

Five basic taste sensations

Answer 5

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (or glutamate)

Question 6

Interaction of sensations of taste and odor with contributions by temperature, etc

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Flavor

Question 7

The chemical sense of taste with receptor cells in tastebuds on the tongue, roof of the mouth and in the throat

Answer 7

Gustation

Question 8

The chemical sense of smell with receptors in a mucous membrane on the roof of the nasal cavity

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Olfaction

Question 9

Mucous membrane is also known as

Answer 9

Olfactory epithelium

Question 10

Olfacton = no pathways to the

Answer 10

Thalamus

Question 11

Set of processes by which you choose from among the various stimuli bombarding your senses at any instant, allowing some to be further processed by your senses and brain

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Attention

Question 12

Focused awareness of only a limited aspect of all you are capable of experiencing

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Selective attention

Question 13

Information processing that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory info to construct perceptions; is data-driven

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Bottom-up processing

Question 14

Is data driven

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Bottom-up processing

Question 15

Information processing guided by your preexisting knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions; is concept driven

Answer 15

Top-down processing

Question 16

Is concept-driven

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Top-down processing

Question 17

Perceiving an object as unchanging even when the immediate sensation of the object changes

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Perceptual constancy

Question 18

Vision usually dominates where there is a conflict among senses

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Visual capture

Question 19

Gestalt psychologists

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Recognized rhe importance of figure-ground in perception

“Whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

Question 20

The ability to judge to distance of objects

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Depth perception

Question 21

Clues about distance based on the image of one eye

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Monocular cues

Question 22

Monocular cues

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Interposition or overlap, relative size, aerial perspective, relative height, etc.

Question 23

Clues about distance requiring two eyes

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Binocular cues

Question 24

Binocular cues

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Include the more important retinal disparity and less important convergence

Question 25

Discrepancies between the appearance of a visual stimulus and its physical reality

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Optical or visual illusions

Question 26

Concept or frameworks that organize and interpret information

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Schemas

Question 27

Controversial claims that perception can occur apart from sensory input

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Extrasensory perception (ESP)

Question 28

Study of paranormal events that investigates claims of ESP, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, etc.

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Parapsychology

Question 29

Cue: can be seen when a closer object cuts off the view of part or all of a more distant one

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Interposition or overlap

Question 30

Cue: closer of two same-size objects casts a larger image on your retina than the further one

Answer 30

Relative size

Question 31

Cue: can be seen when closer objects appear sharper than more distant, hazy objects

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Relative clarity

Question 32

Cue: when closer objects have a coarser, more distinct texture than far away objects that appear more densely packed

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Texture gradient

Question 33

Cue: can be seen when the objects closest to the horizon appear to be the farthest from you. Lowest objects in our field of vision seem the closest

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Relative height or elevation

Question 34

Cue: when parallel lines, such as edges of sidewalks, seem to converge in the distance

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Linear perspective

Question 35

Cue: when the closer of two identical objects reflects more light to your eyes

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Relative brightness