Psychology - Other Senses

Receptors send information about odors to the brain via the...

• Optic Nerve

• Auditory Nerve

• Sinus Nerve

• Olfactory Nerve

The "skin senses" is more commonly referred to as...

• Feeling

• Touch

• Epidermis

• Skinny Touchy Feely Sensy

This theory of pain suggests that only a certain amount of information can be processed by the nervous system at a time.

• Door

• Window

• Gate

• Ceiling

This sense works via sensory organs in the ear that monitor the body’s motion and position in relation to gravity.

• Vestibular

• Kinesthesis

• Gravitas

• Levity

Which lobe would you find a map of your sensory and perception functions?

• frontal

• parietal

• occipetal

• temporal

The process where stimuli is converted into a neural signal, then send to the brain:

• perception
• sensation
• conduction
• transduction

We do not get used to the sensation of pain. What explains an athlete who plays through an ACL tear?

• norepinephrine
• dopamine
• endorphins
• serotonin

This explains why touch can sometimes relieve pain:

• habituation
• sensory adaptation
• sensory threshold
• gate-control theory

Tinnitus and phantom pain both demonstrate that our brains:can create the perception of a sensationare completely reliable at interpretingdivide pain, pressure, and temperature

• block out sensations that are not useful
• can create the perception of a sensation
• are completely reliable at interpreting
• divide pain, pressure, and temperature

When our perceptions do not agree with our senses, we call these:

• illusions
• hallucinations
• delusions
• psychosis