Exam 5: Sensation and Perception

The stimulus for vision is

Malcolm hates watching dubbed movies because the soundtrack doesn't correspond with the images of the actors' faces when they speak.Malcolm finds this distracting because his brain's ___ cannot integrate auditory and visual information as easily in dubbed movies as it can normally.

The optic nerve is composed of axons of ___.

Ye-eun is baking a pie.When she reaches in to take the pie out of the oven,she burns the top of her arm.Which tactile receptors will inform Ye-eun she has been burned?

Your text book discusses why it is important for us to feel pain.Which type of psychologists would support the argument that recognizing pain is critical for preventing physical damage to the body?

Name the three ossicles.

Sweet/sour is the taste associated with monosodium glutamate.

Transduction is the process of:

Which of the following ear structures is correctly paired with a description?

The amplitude of a sound wave cycle is responsible for the sound's ___.

The conversion of environmental stimuli into neural impulses is called ___.

Gustatory receptors are contained in the ___,located on the ___.

Addison lost the sight in her left eye when she was a child.Although she has excellent vision in her right eye,she notices that when an object is moving into sight on her right side,she will lose sight of it for a very brief second.How would you explain this to Addison?

The place on the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye is called the

Holly is experiencing what it is like to read Braille by closing her eyes and running her fingertips over the arrays of bumps.Which sensory receptor would most likely respond to this sensation?

Indicate the two visual pathways and respective brain cortices on the following diagram.

The pain-relieving chemicals naturally produced by the nervous system belong to a class of substances called ___; this class also includes ___.

Transduction is the process by which sensory receptor cells convert environmental stimuli into neural impulses.

Igor is listening to a sound wave that varies in amplitude from low to high.This means that the sound is:

Ouch! A paper cut! You jerk your hand away from the sheet just as a tiny droplet of blood appears on your finger.The cut's pain signal travels to your brain along the ___ axons of the ___ pain pathway.