The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environments
What is sensation
100
Where does light enter through first?
What is cornea
100
Is shaped to capture sound waves and sends them to the brain
What is Ear
100
When your body temperature is at 98.6 degrees you might perceive another person’s skin
What is Warm
100
Our ability to maintain balance depends to some extent
What is Visual Cues
200
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
What is perception
200
What is behind the pupil?
What is Lens
200
A thin membrane that vibrates when sound waves strike it
What is Eardrum
200
What is more sensitive than the shoulders, thighs, and calves
What is Fingertips, lips, nose, and cheeks
200
What tells you whether you are physically upright without your having to use your eyes
What is Vestibular sense
300
process of discriminating between what is important & is irrelevant and is influenced by motivation.
What is selective attentition
300
What is the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information
What is Retnia
300
What are the three main parts to the ear?
What is outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear
300
What we normally called touch is better called the skin senses because touch is a combination of
What is pressure, temperature, and pain
300
What is the sense that informs people about the position and motion of their body
What is Kinesthesis
400
Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
What is top-down processing
400
nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement
What is feature detectors
400
Snail-shaped structure housing the auditory receptors
What is cochlea
400
What happens when stroking adjacent pressure spots
What is a tickle
400
Pain message is sent from the point of contact to the spinal cord to the
What is the thalamas
500
the minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular light, sound, pressure, taste, or odor 50 percent of the time?
What is absolute threshold
500
This is another name for the location
where the axons of the optic nerve
exit the eyeball to go to the brain.
What is the blind spot
500
The characteristic of sound waves that
determines the pitch that we hear
What is frequency of a sound wave?
500
theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain, the "gate" is opened by the activity of pain signals traveling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers
What is the gate control theory
500
A disorder of the inner ear that can affect hearing and balance to a varying degree
It is characterized by episodes of vertigo and progressive hearing loss, usually in one ear