Psychology Chapter 4 review

Receptors that are responsible for transferring light into neural impulses.  

• Rods & Cones of Retina
• Optic Stem
• Cornea
• Iris

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

• Optic Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Auditory (chochlear nerve)
• Sensory Nerve

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation
• Perception
• Gestalt Awareness
• Sensory organization

The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half of the time.  

• Differnce threshold
• Absolute threshold
• Gate threshold
• Subliminal message

This system controls the balance of the body.  

• Vestibular System
• Kinesthetic System
• Vision system
• Internal system

The storage and retrieval of what has been learned.

• Memory
• Decay
• Retrieval
• Sensory memory

How does light move?

• zig-zag
• up and down
• scattered
• straight line

How fast does light travel?

• 186,000 miles per second
• 240 miles per hour
• one million miles per second
• 186 miles per second

Why did the coin disappear when you poured the water in the cup?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Reduction

• It vanished!

How does a prism make a rainbow?

• It breaks white light into the colors of the rainbow
• It's magic
• It traps a unicorn
• It uses magnets