Exam 6: Sensation and Perception

In primates, some cells in the ________ lobe respond maximally to faces.

Hue is related to the ________ of light.

Sense receptors for vision, hearing, and taste are:

The hair cells of the cochlea are embedded in the rubbery:

The skin senses include touch, pressure, heat, cold, pain, itching, and tickling.

There are three basic types of cones in the retina, each of which responds to a different wavelength.

The reduction of sensory responsiveness that occurs when stimulation is unchanging is called sensory adaptation.

Sensation is defined as the detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects.

The strange phenomenon of phantom pain is difficult to explain according to the gate-control theory. Explain the basic concepts of the gate-control theory and its inability to explain phantom pain.

On a bright, sunny day, Marie enters her very dark garage. Since the light does not work, her eyes must adjust through a process of dark adaptation. Research shows that after 15 minutes, dark adaptation is:

The ________ contain receptors responsible for a sense of bodily movement.

Match the description with the appropriate theory. -Principles that describe the brain's organization of sensory information into meaningful units and patterns.

Our perceptual abilities result from:

What did Johannes Müller propose in his doctrine of specific energies? What riddles of sensation does his doctrine fail to explain?

The actual organ of hearing is the ________ in the inner ear.

The sensory nerves all use exactly the same form of communication, a neural impulse.

The eye is frequently compared with a camera, but in many ways the visual system is not like a camera. Explain why.

The authors compare communication in the sensory system to the activities on a battlefield. The sense receptors are like military scouts because they:

Match the theories with the appropriate person(s). -gate-control theory

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of sensation?