Sensory & Visual

Question 0

Internal Sensory Organs

Answer 0

Body temperature, blood pressure, electrolyte level- all automatic but still important and sensitive to changing external events

Question 1

Sensory-Motor Integration

Answer 1

They go together, you can’t be a human without both of them

Question 2

Sense Modality

Answer 2

• there are different sensory channel, each one is tuned to a specific thing
• Ex: auditory modality is tuned to hear things

Question 3

Sense organ

Answer 3

• every modality has an organ tuned to that one

- it has special receptors and transduction (change in form of energy)

Question 4

Receptive fields

Answer 4

• each sense organ has one
• max amount and limitations
• Ex: auditory, maximally tuned to sound waves within human speech, not tuned to high or low frequencies

Question 5

Coding

Answer 5

• nervous system and neurological signal codes for quality

- we are able to tell if a touch on the back is hard or soft

Question 6

Labeled lines*

Answer 6

• type of coding

- dedicated receptor gets activated and gives us a certain reaction

Question 7

Pattern coding*

Answer 7

• type of coding

- neurons may respond in patterns depending on the coding