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WorksheetsIntroduction to Psychology Sensations & Perceptions QUIZ
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 42mins
allows cells to fire less
(a)
This is a scientific way of saying that because eyes are a few inches apart, they don't exactly see the same image.
Binocular Cues
Convergence
Illusions
This makes use of something that happens inside the eye. The lens of the human eye is flexible and held in place by a series of muscles,
Interposition
Aerial perspective
Texture Gradient
Accommodation
This is the length of the wave measured by nanometers.
Wavelength
Color/Hue
Brightness
Saturation
What are the three tiny bones in the Middle Ear?
Hammer (malleus)
Anvil (incus)
Ossicles
Stirrup (Stapes)
This is a rare type, they either have no cones or have cones that are not working at all.
Monochrome Color Blindness
Color blindness
Dichromatic Vision
Monochrome Vision
This is the lowest level of stimulation that a person can consciously detect 50% of the time the stimulation is present.
Absolute threshold
Threshold 1: The Big Bang
Sensory threshold
Sensory Receptors
Rods are for increased levels of light while Cones are for adapting to darkness.
False
True
These are stimuli that are below the level of conscious awareness.
(a)
This is the purity of the color people perceive.
(a)
This refers to the rotation of the 2 eyes in their sockets to focus on a single object.
(a)
The Olfactory Receptor Cells have about a half dozen to a dozen little hairs called (a) that project into the cavity.
This is interpreted as volume, or how soft or loud a sound is.
Brightness
Amplitude
Amptitude
Pitch
Who coined the word Umami in 1908?
(a)
These are just beneath the skin and respond to changes in pressure.
(a)
This is the tendency for lines that are actually parallel to seem to converge on each other.
Proximity
Closure
Linear Perspective
Convergence
The Opponent-process theory is based on who in 1874?
Edwald Hering
Thomas Young
Edward Hering
Ernest Wever
Hermann von Helmholtz
The Middle Ear has three tiny bones called?
(a)
This is where the optic nerve leaves the eye; there are no photoreceptor cells here.
Blood vessels
Blind spot/Optic disc
Fovea
Iris
This occurs when a person who has had an arm/leg removed sometimes "feels" pain in the missing limb.
(a)
These are located right on top of the sinus cavity on each side of the brain directly beneath the frontal lobes.
Olfactory Sense
Olfactory Bulbs
Olfactory Receptor Cells
Olfaction
This refers to problems with the mechanics of the outer or middle ear.
Hearing impairment
Induction hearing impairment
Conduction hearing impairment
Nerve hearing impairment
The human limit/s for the frequency is 20 to 200,000 Hz/Hertz.
True
False
This is a method by which the brain takes all the sensations a person experiences at any given moment and allows them to be interpreted in some meaningful fashion.
(a)
An organ with its purposes include more than simply keeping bodily fluids in and germs out.
(a)
The retina has three layers (select all that apply).
Ganglion Cells
Bipolar Cells
Retinal Cells
Rods & Cones
Receptor cells
This is the visible, external part of the ear that serve as a kind of concentrator.
Cochlea
Pinna
Outer Ear
Ear Canal
This is the process of converting outside stimuli into neural activity
Transduction
Sensations
Perceptions
Sensory Receptors
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel were the ones that discovered the Volley Principle.
True
False
This theory suggests that the pitch a person hears depends on where the hair cells that are stimulated are located on the organ of Corti.
Gestalt Principle
Volley Principle
Place Theory
Frequency Theory
This is a common name for the taste receptor cells (special kinds of neurons found in the mouth, responsible for the sense of taste).
(a)
This is a membrane in which its vibrations set off another chain reaction within the inner ear.
Basilar Membrane
Oval Window
Cochlea
What are the basic tastes proposed by Lindemann (1996)?
Bitter, Sweet, Sour, Salty
Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour, Spicy
Salty, Bitter, Sour, Sweet, Umami
Bitter, Salty, Sour, Sweet, Brothy
These occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed.
(a)
These are receptors for visual acuity (ability to see fine detail) and are responsible for color vision.
Photoreceptors
Rods
Cones
Ganglion Cells
This appears to account for pitches from about 400 Hz to about 4,000 Hz.
(a)
This structure of the eye has a fixed curvature, but can be changed through vision improving techniques.
Retina
Cornea
Lens
Iris
Objects moving at a constant speed across the frame will appear to move a greater amount if they are closer to an observer than they would if they were at a greater distance.
(a)
This is the the short tunnel that runs down to the eardrum.
Semicircular Canal
Outer Ear
Pinna
Auditory Canal
This is attributed to the responses of neurons in the primary visual cortex that respond best to bars of light of a specific orientation.
(a)
It is the smallest difference between 2 stimuli that is detectable 50% of the time.
(a)
What is the more accurate and general term for "color blindness"?
Color-vision defiency
Color-deficiency
Deficient-color vision
Color-deficient vision
These cells respond best to corners, curvature, or sudden edges.
Complex Cells
Simple Cells
Neurons
End-stopped Cells
_____ developed the Trichromatic Theory, but was later modified by ______.
Thomas Young, Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz, Georg von Bekesy
Ernest Wever, Charles Bray
These are vibrations of molecules of air that surround us.
(a)
This is often called a chemical sense because it works with the molecules of foods people eat in the same way the neural receptors work with neurotransmitters.
Taste Buds
Gustation
Taste
Sense of Taste
This occurs as the eye recovers its ability to see when going from a brightly lit state to a dark state.
Adaptation
Sensory Adaptation
Dark Adaptation
Light Adaptation
If inner ear is damaged, there will be a problem with one's balance (especially when walking).
False
True
This area of the retina are halves toward the temples of the head.
Retinal Cells
Nasal retina
Temporal retina
What is the Latin word/s for vestibular?
(a)
The Frequency Theory was by Ernest Rutherford in 1886.
False
True
This is the hole in the interior of the eye that light enters.
(a)
Some people have only 500 taste buds, but others have 20x that number. Those are called what?
(a)
He proposed light is actually tiny packets of waves.
(a)
This is a clear jelly-like fluid that also nourishes the eye and gives it shape.
Vitreous Humor
Aqueous Humor
Sense of Humor
This is the colored part of the eye. Its muscles can change/control the size of the pupil, letting more or less light into the eye.
Cornea
Iris
Lens
Retina
He studied the smallest difference between 2 weights that could be detected in this research.
Ernest Weber
Ernest Wever
Ernest Rutherford
Ernst Weber
Myopia is the hardening of the lens because of aging, losing the ability to do Visual Accommodation.
False
True
These are vestibular organs that have three somewhat circular tubes that are also filled with fluid, that will stimulate hair-like receptors when rotated.
Crystals
Otolith Organs
Semicircular Canal
Auditory Canal
A process by which constant, unchanging info from the sensory receptors is effectively ignored. Here, receptor cells themselves become less responsive to an unchanging stimulus and the receptors no longer send signals to the brain.
Habituation
Sensory Adaptation
Adaptation
A complicated phenomenon that has the properties of both waves and particles.
Wavelength
Light
Brightness
Photons
This perception that does not correspond to reality.
Relative Size
Hallucination
Illusion
Hermann Grid
A process wherein stimuli act upon the unconscious mind, influencing behavior
(a)
Monocular Cues are the capability to see the world in 3D.
False
True
Visual Accommodation may occur but the process may fall short of the retina.
Myopia
Presbyopia
Hyperopia
Gustav Fechner expanded on Weber's research and coined "Absolute threshold".
True
False
These are special receptors located in the muscles, tendons, and joints are part of the body's sense of movement and position in space.
Vestibular Sense
Kinesthetic Sense
Skin Sense
This is the tendency to perceive objects or figures as existing on a background; People seem to have preference for picking out figures from background even as early as birth.
Similarity
Continuity
Proximity
Figure-ground Relationships
These are often referred to as pictorial depth cues because artists can use these cues to give illusion of depth to painting and drawings.
Gestalt Principle
Binocular Cues
Monocular cues
This constancy is why a person still perceives a coin as a circle even if it is held at an angle that makes it appear to be an oval on the retina.
Brightness Constancy
Shape Constancy
Size Constancy
