Sensation and Perception

The optic nerves meet at the ________

optic chiasm

Olfactory receptors are located at the _______.

Top of the nasal cavity

Which of the following is NOT a type of sensory receptor?

Anteroceptors

The _________ is responsible for controlling the diameter of the pupil.

Pupilloconstrictor zone

The _________ is essentially a fluid-filled tube that is coiled inside the inner ear.Eardrum

Cochlea

Sound receptors are attached to the _______ membrane.

Basilar

The vast majority of information acquired throughout life often begins as _______ energy.

Enviromental

How many major sensory modalities have been traditionally recognized?

Five

A person's _______ threshold is measured by taking the smallest amount of a stimulus and gradually increasing its strength until a person correctly guesses the stimulus's presence 50% of the time.

Fovea

________ psychology is the view that perception is not simply a reduction of complex forms, but a holistic, creative process.

Gestalt

_______ blindness is a phenomenon caused by diverted attention resulting in failure of accurate scene detection as if we are blind to that event.

Innattentional

________ is an intolerance or insensitivity to light.

Photophobia

What is the term for the outer funnel-shaped structure of the ear?

Pinna

Wavelength in sound waves corresponds to ______.

Pitch

______ can be described as the level of detail in a picture of the sharpness of an image.

Acuity

Experts recommend taking a break from viewing a computer screen at least every _______ minutes.

20

The scientific measurement used to describe the loudness of a particular sound is called the _______.

Decibel

The process of visual perception can be simplified into these three basic tasks:

Detection, discrimination, identification

Pupil diameter is affected by all of the following EXCEPT:

Diet

The ______ shift is the phenomenon where a stationary observer perceives a change in pitch emitted by an object moving horizontally.

Doppler

The magnocellular pathway receives information from M ganglion cells about peripheral vision and therefore _______ spatial resolution images from the retina.

Low

What are the three tiny bones that constitute the middle ear?

Malleus, Incus, Stapes

Olfactory receptor cells are what type of cells?

Neurons

Specialized receptors that can sense pain are known as _______.

Nociceptors

The auditory cortex sends projections to which two lobes of the brain?

Parietal and temporal

Visual information is processed in the __________.

Occiptial lobe

_______ is a phenomenon in which an object closer to a viewer appears to block another object that is farther away from the viewer.

Occlusion

The ______ is the light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye that contains the sensory receptors for vision.

Retina

The two basic types of photoreceptors in the eye are:

Rods and cones

________ can best be defined as the detection of some physical stimulus in the environment by one of your sensory organs.

Sensation

Place the steps of the process from stimulation to perception in the correct order:

Stimulation, reception, transduction, transmission, perception

________ is a quantifiable pattern of physical energy, which is able to interact with an organism and produce a change in the condition of the organism.

Stimulus

Sensory receptors for gustation are known as ________

Taste buds