Sensation & Perception Review Game

The visible bumps on your tongue are known as:

• taste buds

• papillae

• taste receptors

• cilia

A crucial window of time in which a skill or ability must be experienced is called a:

• window moment

• lifetime achievement

• milestone

• critical period

Hearing is measured in ____ units

• decibel

• hertz

• pitch

• timbre

The 3 smallest bones in the body that are responsible for carrying sound vibrations to the inner ear are the:

• papillae, ear buds, cochlea

• eardrum, cilia, cochlea

• hammer, anvil, stirrup

• brush, palette, cup

Solitary confinement in prison is especially cruel because it denies your brain the opportunity to sense the world around you. This is known as:

• sensory adaptation

• selective attention

• sensory deprivation

• absolute threshold

__ is when an amputee feels pain in a missing limb.

• Mistaken limb

• Floating limb

• Phantom limb

• Sensory threshold

Papillae contain hundreds of receptor cells known as:

• cochlea

• olfactory bulbs

• thalami

• taste buds

The tiny hairs located inside the ear that contain the sense receptors are known as:

• cilia

• ear buds

• thalami

• vestibular sacs

Rods in the retina are responsible for seeing __, while cones help with seeing ___.

• indoors; outdoors

• in the dark; color

• outdoors; indoors

• color; in the dark

The four Gestalt principles are ____, ______, proximity, and continuity.

• acuity, closure

• closure, similarity

• depth, context

• context, similarity