Chemical senses
What are the two chemical senses?
Smell and taste
What is perception?
The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand your environment.
What is blindness?
Inability to see light
What is hearing also called?
Audition
What is sensation?
What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor.
Why are these senses classified as chemical?
Because their receptors are sensitive to chemical molecules
What does Gestalt refer to?
What is glaucoma?
When the pressure in the eye rises and results in damage to the optical nerve.
What are frequency and amplitude in relation to hearing?
The “loudness” of sound is determined by the amplitude (height) of the sound waves. Pitch depends on the frequency (rate) of the vibrations.
What is psychophysics?
The study of the relationship between sensory experiences and physical stimuli that cause them.
What sense is olfaction
Smell
What is figure-ground perception?
You can distinguish between an object and its background
What causes macular degeneration?
Damage to the cones in the retina
What are the two types of deafness?
Conduction and sensorineural
What is the absolute threshold?
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time.
What are the 5 primary sensory experiences
sour, salty, bitter, umami, sweet
ability tor recognize distances and 3 dimensions
What are cataracts?
A clouding of the eye's lens which results in vision difficulties.
Which two senses operate within the ear?
Vestibular and hearing
What is signal detection theory?
The summary of our tendency to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of stimuli.
Where can you detect flavors?
Anywhere on the tongue!
What is constancy?
Once we have learned to perceive things a certain way, we tend to see them in the same way regardless of a changed condition.
What is the leading cause of blindness?
Cataracts
What nerve carries neuronal signals to the brain?
Auditory
What do our sensory experiences depend on?
Changes in the stimulus.