Answer These Sensory Perception Flashcards

Discusses sensation and perception, sleep and dreams and disorders, and learning and behaviors

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Basic immediate experiences that a stimulus elicits in a sense organ are called:
Sensations
The process of interpreting, organizing, and elaborating on the raw materials of sensation is called:
Perception
Transduction can be defined as:
Process by which sensory organs transfer energy into electrochemical energy threshold.
The minimum physical intensity of a stimulus that can be perceived by an observer 50% of the time is:
Threshold
A greater portion of the human brain is devoted to________ than any of out other senses.
Vision
The __________ of visible light determines its hue, or color.
Saturation
The film or image surface of a camera corresponds to the _______ if the eye
Retina
The focusing process in which the lens adjusts its shape depending on the distance between the eye and the object viewed in order to project a clear image onto the retina is called:
Accommodation
The spot inside the eye where the ganglion cells meet to form the optic nerve is known as the:
Blind spot
According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, the members of each system:
Inhibit vision of another
Loudness of sound is called_____ and expressed in units of ______
Volume, Decibles
Which theory states that perception of low tones depends on the frequency with which auditory hair cells in the inner ear trigger the firing of neurons in the auditory nerve?
Frequency Theory of Pitch Discrimination
The sense of gustation is classified as a______ sense
Taste
Where do you find the receptors for the olfactory sense?
Nose
Which of the following is not one of the primary skin sensations?
(touch, temperature, and pain) are skin sensations