Perception and Sensation Quiz

What is sensation?

• parents hearing a faint newborn whimper over louder sounds

• the stimulation of sensory receptors, & transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system

What is visual acuity?

• deafness caused by damage to middle ear

• sharpness of vision

Color Blindness

the decreased ability to see color or differences in color body? - What causes color blindness?

• bundle of nerves carrying sound from the cochlea to the brain

• caused by missing or defective cones

What enters through the pupil

• tears

• light

Two ways to see depth perception
What are the two ways to see depth perception?

• monocular

• binocular

• overlapping

What monocular cue show depth when one object partially covers another?

• brain compares images from two eyes & computes distance

• Shadow

What is the experience that comes from organizing bits of information

into meaningful wholes?

• gestalt

• similarty

What gestalt principle says, we want to see smooth continuous patterns (lines & waves), not disrupted ones (half-circles)?

• taste

• continuity

What does the olfactory nerve do?

• flooding brain with other stimulus blocks some pain messages

• transmits odors to the limbic system of the brain

What tastes are naturally poisonous?

• bitter

• sour

• sweet