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| The part of the nervous system that is responsible for receiving and processing info fr. the outside the body is called the ________ system. |
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| The fact that sensory systems are need-specific is demonstrted by which example? |
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| Bats hunt in the dark so they use echolocation instead of eyesight to track down prey. |
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| ________ is the process through which we detect physical energy fr. the envirnonment and code the energy as neural signals. |
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| ________ is to reception as ________ is to interpretation. |
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| When the mail is delivered to your home, the postal worker puts it in your mailbox. You then take the various letters, magazines, and postcards and sit down to read them, deciding which is import and whch is junk. In this scenario, the mailbox is your_______. |
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| When the mail is delivered to you home, the postal worker puts it in your mailbox. You then take the various letters, magazines, and postcards and sit down to read them, deciding which is important and which is junk. I this scenario, the delivery of mail to you mailbox is analogous to ________. |
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| When the mail is delivered to your home, the postal worker puts it in your mailbox. You then take the various letters, magazines, and postcards and sit down to read them, deciding which is important and which is junk. In this scenario, the process of sorting through the mail, deciding what is important and what is junk is analogous to _______. |
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| _______ refers to the way we select, organize, and interpret sensory info. |
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| Generally speaking, the study of _________ refers to the process of understanding the human experiences of sensation and perception. |
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| "I'm ready to go," Olivia told her husband! "I wore a new perfume tonight. I hope you like it!" Olivia's husband nodded dutifully and told her how nice it smelled, but in truth he couldn't smell a thing. According to the principles of psychophysics, Olivia was not wearing enough perfume to exceed her husband's _______. |
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| While lying in bed, Maurice asked his wife, Sophie, to turn up the television. Even though she did increase the volume of the program they were watching, Maurice said "Aren't you going to turn it up?" Clearly, the amout of volume Sophie added to the television program did not exceed Maurice's _________ threshold. |
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| The _________ threshold is the smallest amount of energy needed for a person to detect the presence of a stimulus 50% of the time. |
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| The ________ threshold is the minimum difference between two stimuli needed to detect the difference 50% of the time. |
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| Jim and Jamal are lifting weights together before football practice. Jim is doing a bench press w/ 240#, and just to be funny Jamal slides an extra 5# on the bar when JIm is not looking. Jim bench presses the new weight, 245#, w/o even noticing that the weight had increased, If Jamal had added 50#, however, Jim would probably have noticed. Which law explains why a small change to a large stimulus will be harder to detect than a small change to a small stimulus? |
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| When the mail is delivered to you home, the postal worker puts it in your mailbox. You then take the various letters, magazines, and postcards and sit down to read them, deciding which is important and which is junk. In this scenario, the taking the various mail fr. the mailbox and into your house where you will sort it is analogous to the process of ________. |
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| Sensory ________ carry info as a coded signal fr. your sensory organs to your brain. |
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| The process through which physical energy such as light or sound is converted into an electrical charge known as ________. |
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| A good friend of yours tells you that he has a new job at a bakery. "Oh man, you are so lucky," you tell him. "You get to smell that fresh bread and the donuts all day long. I'd love to work there." Your buddy shakes his head and says, "You know, that's what I thought, but after I'm there for a few minutes I don't even smell the baked goods that much anymore." Because you've studied psychology, you know that his loss of responsiveness to the great scents is explained by sensory ________. |
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| Sensory ________ is the process in which sensory receptor cells become less responsive to an unchanging stimulus. |
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| What are the 3 factors that control sensory adaptation? |
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>The associated sensory cortex in the brain
>The rate at which sensory receptor cells fire
>The number of sensory receptor cells that are present |
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| The very first thing your thumb would touch as it made contact with you eye would be the ________. |
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| Visual accommodation is the process by which the ________ adjusts in shape fr. thick to thin to enables a person to focus on objects that are close by or far away. |
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| The ability of your lens to change its thickness and curvature to adapt to images both near and far is called visual ________. |
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| Which of the following type of visual receptor is found everywhere in the retina except the fovea? |
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| You come home fr. middle school one afternoon w/ a report card that boasts all A's. You can't wait to show your grandmother, who has recently been visiting fr. out of town. When you hand her the report card, she has to hold it at arm's length in order to read it, b/c the lenses of her eyes are no longer able to accommodate to objects that are nearby. This eye condition, called _________, is very common on older people. |
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