Psychology Ch.4

Question 1

Sensation

Answer 1

Detecting, Converting, and transmitting raw sensory info from external and internal environments to the brain.

Question 2

Perception

Answer 2

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory info into meaningful patterns.

Question 3

The 5 senses are an example of?

Answer 3

Sensation

Question 4

A kitten looking in a mirror and seeing itself as a lion is an example of?

Answer 4

Perception

Question 5

What are senses of the body?

Answer 5

Vision, Audition, Olfaction, Gustation, Body Senses

Question 6

A candle flame seen from 30 miles away on a clear, dark night uses what sense?

Answer 6

Vision

Question 7

The tick of an old-fashion watch ay 20 feet uses the sense?

Answer 7

Audition

Question 8

One drop of perfume spread throughout a six-room apartment uses what sense?

Answer 8

Olfaction

Question 9

One teaspoon of sugar in two gallons of water uses the sense?

Answer 9

Gustation

Question 10

A bee’s wing falling on your cheek from a height of about half an inch uses what sense?

Answer 10

Body senses

Question 11

The senses examples are an example of what?

Answer 11

Absolute Threshold

Question 12

What is an Absolute Threshold?

Answer 12

The minimum amount of a stimulus that an observer can reliably detect.

Question 13

What is a Difference Threshold?
Ex.: Changes in amounts, sizes, weights, shades, etc.,

Answer 13

The minimal difference needed to notice a stimulus change.

Question 14

Marketing like iPhone sizes and colors are an example of?

Answer 14

Difference thresholds

Question 15

-Turning down the volume on repetitive information helps our sensory receptors cope with overwhelming sensory stimuli and allows us time to pay attention to change.
-Getting into a body of water
-Music at a party
Are examples of?

Answer 15

Sensory Adaption

Question 16

What is Sensory Adaption

Answer 16

Repeated or constant stimulation decreases sensory messages to the brain which decreases sensation.

Question 17

How loud is too Loud!?!!?!

Answer 17

Constant noise above 85 decibels which can cause permanent nerve damage

Question 18

What sense is connected to our emotional system(limbic) than any other sense?

Answer 18

Smell(olfaction)

Question 19

_To intensify the taste of food
-warn of dangerous foods
-elicit strong memories
What sense functions like this?

Answer 19

Olfaction

Question 20

So with our smell we stop smelling our deodorants and perfumes because of decreased responding what is this an example of? sensation or perception?

Answer 20

Sensory Adaption

Question 21

Nerve impulses to the brain(Parietal) reflect back as an sensation of what ?

Answer 21

Gustation(Taste)

Question 22

What are our five basic taste?

Answer 22

-Sweet
–Salty
-Sour
-Bitter
-Umami

Question 23

Humans like sweet and salty but what do they avoid?

Answer 23

Bitter(That’s why as you get older you’ll like more sweets)

Question 24

What are the names of the people that have greater than average number of taste buds?

Answer 24

Supertasters

Question 25

What is resulted when we combine sensations of taste and smell?

Answer 25

Flavor

Question 26

What is the largest sensory organ in your body?

Answer 26

Your skin

Question 27

Your skin senses include what?

Answer 27

touch and pressure(when and where touched) temperature and pain(temp recept located beneath skin but separate receptors for hot and cold)

Question 28

What fibers that deal with dull or throbbing are thinner and slower?

Answer 28

Pain

Question 29

What is our body's natural pain killer which is similar to morphine?

Answer 29

Endorphins

Question 30

Crying, hugs, medications, Distractions, and meditation are examples of what?

Answer 30

Pain Management

Question 31

What system is in charge of your balance?

Answer 31

Vestibular System

Question 32

When you get off the swing set ride your world seems disoriented and your dizzy and have motion sickness what happened?

Answer 32

Your vestibular and visual systems are sensory confused

Question 33

What are body receptors that sends to the brain to give us sensation of movement?

Answer 33

Kinesthesis

Question 34

You see a sign that shows a curvy road so you expect to slow down for curvy roads so that you do not drive off a cliff due to driving too fast. What is this an example of?

Answer 34

Perpetual set

Question 35

See an object in the water and deciding whether its a stick or the Loch Ness monster what is an example of?

Answer 35

Perceptual Set

Question 36

A group of dots close together is an example of

Answer 36

Proximity

Question 37

A cat broken up in pieces but we can still see its a cat even if there are gaps. Do yu knw wt I mn? Is an example of?

Answer 37

Closure

Question 38

Seeing two squiggly lines crossing each other but at the cross you follow the other line is an example of?

Answer 38

Continuity

Question 39

Viewing objects as the object of focus or background

Answer 39

Figure-ground

Question 40

You are building a puzzle to make a picture what is that an example of?

Answer 40

Bottom up Processing

Question 41

Like knowing a song and drawing pictures for the words is an example of?

Answer 41

Top-down processing