How your senses work?
Our Senses
Vision
Hearing
Taste/Smell/Touch
100
What is the first step in the three step process when using your senses?
Sensation- your sensory receptors accepting a stimulus, like smelling different chemicals, or hearing sound waves, or seeing light waves
100
What is the largest organ of our body?
The Skin!
100
What form of energy allows us to see images?
Light waves
100
What vibrates in the middle ear and acts as a gateway from the outer ear to the inner ear?
The Ear Drum
200
What is the second step in the three step process when using your senses?
Perception- your brain accepts messages from the receptor cells and then your brain interprets the message.
200
What two senses are so similar they are sometimes considered one sense?
Taste and Smell
200
What is the black hole in your eye called in which light enters?
The Pupil
200
How many bones are in the middle ear?
3
200
Skin accounts for what percent of your body weight?
15%
300
What is the third step in the three step process when using your senses?
Judgment- this is a conscious judgement of our senses, based on past experience. For example, if you are holding something yellow, and it smells and tastes sour, you may make the judgement that this is a lemon
300
What term refers to sensing the slightest contrast in two stimuli?
Difference Threshold
300
What are the two types of sensory receptors in our eyes that allow us to see color and brightness?
Rods and Cones
300
What is the smallest bone in your body called that is located in your middle ear?
The Stirrup
300
What are the five main flavors we can taste?
Sweet, Savory, Sour, Salty, Bitter
400
What organ in our nose allows us to smell?
The Olfactory Bulb
400
What term refers to the slightest amount of our senses that we use?
Absolute Threshold
400
What is the difference between the Lens and the Retina?
Lens adjusts to let us focus on items at different distances. The Retina is the back of the eye which light reflects onto and sends messages to the brain
400
What type of implant can the deaf receive in order to be able to hear again?
Cochlear Implant
400
Our sense of smell allows us to taste how many flavors, instead of just the basic 5?
10,000
500
Sensation is the result of some form of ____________ being accepted by our sensory receptors.
Energy. (sound waves, light waves, chemicals, temperature)
500
What theory determines that we perceive images as a whole based on prior knowledge, instead of individual, separate images?
Gestalt Theory
500
If someone is colorblind, they probably have a malfunction with what parts of the eye?
The Cones of their eye in their Retina
500
Please explain the difference between decibels and hertz.
Decibels- measurement of how loud something is. Hertz- measure of pitch, or wavelength frequency.
500
Please list at least three different ways we can feel.
Temperature, Texture, Pressure, Vibrations
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