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1) After transduction, the neural signals of vision, hearing, taste, and touch all pass through the
thalamus
2) Because of which of the following can you see different color
cones
3) During transduction, most sensory information is transmitted first to the ________ before it is sent to the________, where it is interpreted as sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste.
thalamus; cortex
4) Gustation involves ________ taste buds, all located on the ________.
8,000 to 10,000; tongue, throat and mouth
5) Ouch! A paper cut! The sharp sting travels along ________ pain fibers, which are
fast; myelinated
6) Prolonged exposure to movement in one direction ________ the motion detectors responsive to that direction. When the movement stops, the baseline firing rate of detectors for the opposite direction of motion will be ________ than the firing rate for the detectors that responded to the prolonged movement, leading to motion aftereffects.
fatigues; higher
7) Regarding smell, which of the following statements is generally the most accurate?
people are better at discriminating among odors than they are at identifying them; women generally outperform men
8) Regarding visual illusions, which of the following statements is most accurate?
illusion helps to reveal normal perceptual processes
9) Reversible figures occur because
the correct assignment of figure and ground is ambiguous
10) Sound waves cause the ________ to vibrate.
eardrum
11) Structures on the tongue that contain groupings of taste buds are called
papillae
12) Temperature receptors that signify intense heat when they are activated
may respond simultaneously with receptors signifying cold
13) The ________ sense aids balance by judging direction and intensity of head movements.
vestibular
14) The area where the optic nerve leaves the retina is referred to as the
blind spot
15) The auditory neurons extending from the ________ reach out with their axons to the primary auditory cortex in the ________.
thalamus; temporal lobe
16) The coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear that houses the sensory receptors is called the
cochlea
17) The minimum amount of change required for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli is referred to as
the difference threshold
18) The minimum intensity of sensory stimulation required before a sensation is detected 50 percent of the time is called
the absolute threshold
19) The primary auditory cortex is located in which brain lobe?
temporal
20) The sense of smell is also called
olfaction
21) The sense organs' detection of external physical stimuli is called ________, whereas further processing, organizing, and interpreting of those stimuli in the brain is called
sensation; perception
22) The sense that allows you to determine the location of your body and limbs in space is called
kinesthetic
23) Copy of The sense that allows you to determine the location of your body and limbs in space is called
kinesthetic
24) The________ is a thin inner surface behind the eyeball and it contains sensory receptors.
retina
25) There are several steps involved in a person being able to feel a touch on their skin and experience it as pleasurable. Which of the following displays these steps in the correct order?
tactile stimulation-sensation-transduction-perception
26) There are several steps involved in the process of transforming a sound into a signal that can be understood by the brain. Which of the following displays these steps in the correct order?
sound wave-eardrum vibration-pressure wave in fluid
27) What are the two cues that allow you to determine where a sound is coming from?
the time when the sound arrives in each ear and the amplitude or intensity of the sound wave in each ear
28) When sensory receptors change physical stimuli into signals that the brain can understand, this is called
transduction
29) Which of the following characteristics is NOT a basic quality of taste?
spicy
30) Which of the following detects temperature and then sends information about temperature to the brain?
warm and cold receptors
31) Which of the following has been shown to help people manage pain?
distraction
32) Which of the following statements best describes the path of visual information in the brain?
visual information from the left side of each eye travels to the brain's left side
33) Which of the following taste sensations was most recently discovered?
umami
34) Why does a dog sniff virtually everything that it encounters?
because the main way that a dog perceives the world is through olfaction
35) ________ has the most direct route to the brain because it is the only sense that bypasses the ________.
olfaction; thalamus
36) ________ generate action potentials that are sent to the brain by the optic nerve.
ganglion cells
37) When Margot was a child, her mother baked bread on Fridays. As an adult, whenever Margot smells bread baking she remembers her mother and feels happy. The mood and memories result from the processing of smell information in the
amygdala
38) The first psychologists to emphasize the organizing processes underlying perception were the
Gestalt psychologists
39) Melody is looking up a phone number in a phone book with tiny print. She will most likely be able to read the number if she looks at the phone book with her ________ because it has the largest number of ________.
fovea; cones
40) According to ________ we perceive a car as a whole unit rather than perceiving it as a group of distinct entities (such as metal, tires, glass, door handles, hubcaps, and fenders).
Gestalt psychology
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