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A person who hears musical notes in specific colors is a:
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Synesthete
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Sensation and perception
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Are two separate events
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Psychophysics was an approach to studying perception that:
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Measured the strength of a stimulus and an observer's sensitivity to that stimulus
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Adjusting to the sub-freezing temps of winters in the midwest is a good example of:
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Sensory adaption
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Light initially passes through the ___ and ___ of the eye before visual info progresses to the brain
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Cornea: pupil
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The ___ is the brain pathway that enables us to identify the location and motion of an object.
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Dorsal stream
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Similarity, a perceptual organizational principle, helps us to:
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Sort our socks into blue and brown piles
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Amplitude is to our perception of loudness as ____ is to our perception of pitch
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Sound wave frequency
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The hammer, anvil, and stirrup are tiny bones called ___ that are located in the middle ear
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Ossicles
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Smell occurs when molecules enter the nose, and taste occurs when molecules
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Are dissolved in saliva
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All sensory modalities depend on the process of _____, which converts physical signals from the environment into neutral signals carried to brain.
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Transduction
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Absolute threshold refers to:
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The intensity needed to just barely detect a stimulus.
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The researcher who developed an approach to measuring sensation and perception called psychophysics is:
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Gustav Fechner
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Length, amplitude, and purity are:
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Physical properties of light waves
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When the ophthalmologist shines a bright into your eye, your iris reacts by:
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Constricting
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