Exam 4: Sensation and Perception

Karen has suffered from phantom limb pain for several years.She visits a neurologist who proposes trying a therapeutic treatment that has been proven to be effective.Karen is surprised that this simple treatment uses:

Our ________ enable us to make sense of the sensations that we are continually experiencing.

Flavor is:

The middle ear includes the ______.

The lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect a change half the time is called the ___________.

The skin covering which part of the body would have the LOWEST acuity?

The organization and interpretation of olfactory information is one example of ____________.

While riding on a train,David notices that the trees and telephone poles close to the tracks seem to flash by,while the buildings,trees,and mountains that are farther away seem to move by more slowly.This phenomenon is called_____________.

One reason sensory adaptation can be beneficial is that it allows us to:

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the __________.

Which of the following is true of the fovea?

The hammer,anvil,and stirrup are all located in the _______.

A blind spot is a part of the visual field we can't see,where the _____________ connects to the_____________.

The process by which rods and cones become more sensitive to light in response to lowered levels of illumination is called _______.

Frequency determines _______.

When she walks into her mother's kitchen,Amelia doesn't know how long she will be able to stay in the room because of the overpowering smell of onions.But when her sister comes home an hour later and complains about the smell,Amelia realizes that she no longer smells the onions at all.This is an example of ________________.

The process by which rods and cones become more sensitive to light in response to lowered levels of illumination is called ______________.

The processing of sensory information that occurs below the level of conscious awareness is called ____________.

Visual information is sent to a part of the thalamus called the ______.

Which of the following is NOT a measure of threshold?