Vocab 1
What is olfacation?
The sense of smell.
What is it called when sensory receptors detect the color and shape of an object?
Sensation
After time, you can eventually get used to a bad smell. What is this called?
Sensory Adaptation
Why can you hear your name across a loud room at a party?
Cocktail Party Effect
What is the outside of the ear called?
Pinna
What is the sense of taste called?
Gustation.
What are the two characteristics of sound?
Frequency and amplitude
Why is your nose invisible from your visual field?
Sensory Habituation
An amputee sometimes feels nerve signals from their missing limb. What is this called?
Phantom Limb Sensation(s)
What is the job of the cochlea in hearing?
Sends signals to the auditory nerve
What is frequency?
The number of wavelengths in a cycle of sound.
What do you call the damage to the inner ear that impacts loudness, clarity, and range of sounds heard? (Hint: type of hearing loss)
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
What is it called when an auditory stimuli is overlapped with a different visual stimuli? (Hint: what effect occurs?)
McGurk Effect
Why are mothers able to hear the sounds of their baby's cry, even if they are in a different or loud room?
Signal Detection Theory
Senses of the skin are called what?
Somesthetic Senses
Describe retinal disparity.
The difference between the images from each eye due to different angles. The brain connects/overlaps these images to create one seamless view.
What type of senses are taste and smell?
Chemical senses
The inner structure of the ear was damaged, what type of hearing loss has occured?
Conduction Hearing Loss
What do babies lack visually that has to do with perceiving the world in three dimensions?
Key neurons were discovered in the occipital lobe's visual cortex by which researcher(s)? (Hint: he studied on cats)
David Hubel or Torsten Weisel
What is bottom-up processing?
Taking a stimulus and translating it into visual perception. Makes sense of the information without previous context.
the sense of direction and the orientation of space describes which senses?
Kinesthetic and Vestibular Senses
Place theory describes what?
Different parts of the cochlea are activated by different frequencies
What does the gate-control theory of pain describe?
That there is a "gate" in the spinal cord that switches pain on and off
Who discovered the critical period in the visual system and how it applied to childhood? (Hint: one of the answers to the previous question in this section)
Torsten Weisel