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Skin
Taste
Ears
Ear Anatomy
100
The process by which the brain selects, organizes, and interprets our sensory sensations.
What is perception.
100
Your body's way of telling you that something has gone wrong.
What is pain.
100
The pores on a tongue that take in chemical tastes from food.
What are taste buds.
100
The unit of measurement for sound.
What are decibels?
100
The tiniest bones in the body are found in the ear in this order.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
200
The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when 2 stimuli are compared.
What is the Difference Threshold
200
The sensory detectors that detect hurtful temperatures, pressures or chemicals.
What are nociceptors.
200
This location on the tongue has the fewest number of taste receptors.
What is the middle of the tongue?
200
The theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone and enables us to sense pitch.
What is the frequency theory?
200
The part of the ear that you can see from the outside.
What is the pinna?
300
The law that two stimulus must differ by a constant proportion for the differences to be perceptible.
What is Weber's Law.
300
Spontaneous system activity that occurs in the absence or normal limbs like in amputees.
What is phantom limb syndrome.
300
__________ have more taste buds than adults
What are children?
300
This determines the pitch of a sound.
What is the frequency of a sound wave.
300
The coiled, bony, fluid filled tube in the inner ear where sound waves travel through to trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
400
A stimuli that is below our absolute threshold.
What is a subliminal stimulus.
400
Our sense of smell is a combination of these 4 distinct skin senses.
What is pressure, warmth, cold and pain.
400
The five basic tastes include these.
What is sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
400
A type of hearing loss that is caused by damage to one of the mechanical systems that conduct sound waves to the cochlea.
What is conduction hearing loss?
400
The part of the ear that sends messages from the hair cells to the brain's auditory cortex.
What is the auditory cortex?
500
Sensory analysis that starts at the entry level.
What is bottom-up processing.
500
Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall created this principal that says the spinal cord has a "gate" that either blocks pain signals or allows them through.
What is the gate control theory of pain?
500
The little bumps on your tongue are known as this.
What are papillae.
500
This word describes a ringing sensation in the ears.
What is tinnitus?
500
This is surrounded with fluid, has hair cells covering it, and lies within the cochlea.
What is the basilar membrane?