Week 1
The absence of normal levels of sensory stimulation
What is sensory deprivation?
People who have more taste buds (papillae) on their tongue
What are supertasters?
The sense of location and position of body parts in relation to one another
What is kinesthesis?
What was Ms. Bonilla's favorite challenge in this unit?
The soda challenge!
You can see near but can't see far away
What is myopia?
Analysis that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.
What is bottom up?
Pressure, Temperature, and Pain are all types of ____________
What is sensory receptors?
Fancy word for balance
What is vestibular?
List 2 types of illusions
The following are correct
- reversible figure
- Muller-Lyer
- Ponzo Illusion
- Impossible Figures
What is cochlear implant?
The cones, fovea, and rods all make up what part of the eye
What is the retina?
What are the 3 major divisions of the ear?
What is
- outer ear
- middle ear
- inner ear
The way sensory information is interpreted and organized
What is perception?
Linear perspective is a part of ___________
What is depth perception
The crossing of senses
What is synesthesia?
Black and White
Red and _________
(Opponent process theory)
What is green?
What part of the brain processes smell?
What is the limbic system?
List conflicts of the vestibular sense
Any of the following are correct
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Disorientation
- Motion sickness
The difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eye
What is binocular disparity?
Lets us know which way our head is tilted and whether or not we are moving
What are semicircular canals?
The smallest change of a stimuli that an individual can detect
What is difference thresholds?
The inability to hear, linked to a deficit in the body's ability to transmit impulses from the cochlear to the brain
(this is permanent)
What is Sensorineural Hearing Loss?
Special sensory neurons of the kinesthetic sense that are in the muscles and joints
What is proprioception?
The sensory information processed below the limit of awareness
What is subliminal perception??
Reduction or loss of sensory responsiveness in receptor cells when stimulation is unchanged or repetitious
What is sensory adaptation?