sherrill general psychology chapter 3 flash cards

Chapter 3: Sensation & Perception

QUESTION 3.1

The basic, un-interpreted, raw

messages received from sensory organs

is called:


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QUESTION .2

If light waves enter the eye and stimulate photoreceptors, you

are experiencing what?


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QUESTION .3

Your personal opinion of

something reflects your __________.


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QUESTION .4

An individual’s unique

interpretation of senses is called:


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QUESTION .5

A condition in which one sensory stimulus evokes the sensory

experience of another sense is called what?


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QUESTION .6

Molly looks at the sunset and tastes

something salty. She is experiencing what?


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QUESTION .7

The transparent outer covering of the eye is called

what?


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QUESTION .8

This structure regulates the

amount of light that enters the eye.


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QUESTION .9

The black of the eye that allows light to

enter into the eye is called what?


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QUESTION .10

Light waves need to stimulate the back

of the eye. This area is called the:


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QUESTION .11

The retina contains what structures?


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QUESTION .12

The part of the eye where the optic nerve leaves the eye and in

which there are no photoreceptors is

called:


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QUESTION .13

Why is the blind spot called the blind

spot?


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QUESTION .14

The area at the back of the eye that

contains more cones than any other area

is called the:


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QUESTION .15

The point at which the optic nerves from both eyes crisscross on route to the brain

is called the:


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QUESTION .16

The specialized neurons that are

stimulated by light waves are called:


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QUESTION .17

What structure allows is to perceive color, the ability to see in

bright light and to see in fine detail or focus

is called the:


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QUESTION .18

If the _______ are functioning, then we

are unable to see color or in detail or

focus.


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QUESTION .19

This results when the eyeball is too

long and images are focused at a point in front of the retina.


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QUESTION .20

This results when the eyeball is too short

and images are focused at a point behind the retina.


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QUESTION .21

The process by which sensory information is

turned into neural messages that can be

interpreted by the brain is called:


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QUESTION .22

This occurs when sensory neurons decrease in their

response to a constant, unchanging

stimulus.


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QUESTION .23

If you are taking a hot shower and the water seems to get colder, it might be

due to what?


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QUESTION .24

This is the process of visual focus, where the lens bends and adjusts its shape as needed to project light to the retina.


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QUESTION .25

The minimal intensity needed to perceive a stimulus at least 50% of the time is called the:


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QUESTION .26

There needs to be a certain amount of

intensity before you can distinguish

between two stimuli. This is called:


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QUESTION .27

This proposes that there are red, blue and green color receptors

in the retina that allow us to experience all

color perception.


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QUESTION .28

What are the three color cones

according to the Trichromatic

Theory?


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QUESTION .29

This theory proposes that there are three types of photoreceptors that are grouped into pairs and

stimulation of these lead to all color perception.


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QUESTION .30

What are the three pairs of

photoreceptors according to the

Opponent Processing Theory?


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QUESTION .31

Which of the two types of color

blindness is the most common to

occur?


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QUESTION .32

Which type of color blindness is

described as the inability to perceive certain color pairs?


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QUESTION .33

Which type of color blindness would someone have is they experience no color perception and live in a world of black,

white and shades of gray?


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QUESTION .34

What are the two parts of the ear that direct sound waves

into the ear?


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QUESTION .35

This is the structure that turns sound

waves into vibrations that continue into

the middle ear.


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QUESTION .36

What is the collective name for the three small bones of the

middle ear?


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QUESTION .37

What are the names of each ossicle in

order?


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QUESTION .38

What is the name of the snail-shaped structure of the inner ear that is filled with fluid that is

stimulated by vibrations from the middle ear?


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QUESTION .39

Where does transduction occur in the ear, and what is involved in this

process?


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QUESTION .40

What is the pathway of auditory neural messages to their final destination in

the brain for processing?


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QUESTION .41

What are the names for our sense of

taste and our sense of smell?


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QUESTION .42

The three types of stimuli that make up our sense of touch

include:


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QUESTION .43

What is the name of the bodily sense that provides

information about perceptions of the location of various body parts and about the position of the

body in space?


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QUESTION .44

This term refers to your sense of

balance.


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QUESTION .45

This binocular cue is described as the differences in the

images that fall on the retinas of each

eye.


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QUESTION .46This binocular cue occurs because the muscles of

each eye provide information about depth and distance when they move the eyes towards

each other.


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QUESTION .47

This monocular depth cue occurs

when closer objects obstruct our view of objects further away.


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QUESTION .48

If parallel lines appear to converge in the distance, we are experiencing:


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QUESTION .49

Textured surfaces appear to be smoother

and less textured when they are far from

the viewer. This is known as what?


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QUESTION .50

Objects that are closer together appear to move quickly in the opposite direction, while objects

father away seem to move slower and in the same

direction. This is known as:


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QUESTION .51

Who are the individuals who conducted an experiment to test depth perception in

infants? What was the name of that study?


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QUESTION .52

Will infants who have NOT yet developed depth perception

crawl past the edge in the visual cliff

experiment? Why?


ANSWER .52


QUESTION .53

Will infants who HAVE developed depth

perception crawl past the edge in the visual

cliff experiment? Why?


ANSWER .53

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