DC Unit 3/4

Which of the following senses is not first routed through the thalamus?

• audition

• taste

• vision

• smell

Why are olfaction and gustation called chemical senses?

• Neither one has sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe.

• Because they are unrelated to biological senses.

• We cannot use these senses without the presence of specific chemicals in the body

• They have sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe.

The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe.

What term describes the continuation of a visual sensation after removal of the stimulus?

• preimage

• binocular image

• monocular image

• afterimage

Petra walks into a brightly lit Psychology lab to participate in an experiment involving the ability to perceive the colors of the rainbow. Which photoreceptors will be most useful during this experiment?

• fovea

• lens

• rods

• cones

As you are talking to a friend on your cell phone, you might find that you can’t hear them because they are speaking very softly. If you ask them to “speak up,” from a physical perspective you are asking them to ________ of the sound waves they are producing.

________ amplitudes are associated with ________ sounds.

• higher; quieter

• higher; weaker

• lower; louder

• higher; louder

Within the visible spectrum, our experience of red is associated with ________ waves of light.

• higher amplitude

• shorter wavelengths

• lower amplitude

• longer wavelengths

Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds. This is an example of ________.

• a just noticeable difference

• subliminal perception

• top-down processing

• transduction

________ refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced

• Sensation

• Transduction

• Blindness

• Perception