Sensation
Eyes
Perception
Senses
Potpourri (Dapp's History Challenge)
100

Process by which signals are transmitted from sensory organs to the brain

Transduction

100

Part of the eye where the photoreceptor cells are located:

Retina

100

Theory that held the experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes

What is Gestalt

100

balance is regulated by which system

What is the vestibular system

100

Objectively, who would win in a fight based off of the technology of the era, a pirate or a viking

A pirate. Why? Gunpowder/cannons.

200
the principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a difference
What is Weber's Law
200
Names of the photoreceptor cells

Cones/Rods

200

When there is a familiar object or shape that has missing parts we fill in the spaces

What is closure

200

the sense of movement and body position

What is kinesthesis

200

DAILY DOUBLE: Describe the events of any of the following:

The Battle of Red Cliffs

The Battle of Sekigahara

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

The Battle of Tours

The Battle of Alesia

The Battle of Cape Ecnomus

The Battle of Agincourt

The Siege of Constantinople 1453

The Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Rourke's Drift

The Battle of Shiroyama

Answers will vary, +200 per correct answer.

Must name at least (one) of the belligerents and the outcome of the battle.

300
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
What is an absolute threshold
300

Theory that postulates that clusters of neurons work together to produce color rather than RGB photoreceptors

Opponent-Process Theory

300

Tendency to assign faces/human qualities to ambiguous objects

Pareidolia

300

Names of the sense of smell and taste respectively

Olfaction and gustation

300

Name 3 Roman Emperors

Answers will vary

400

The requisite amount of a new stimuli required to overpower another stimuli references:

Difference threshold

400

Two parts of the brain where vision is processed

Occipital Lobe/Cerebellum

400

Would linear perspective be perceived by monocular cues or binocular cues?

Monocular, only one object/focus is being shown.

400

Describe in full detail the transduction of sound

What is 1)the outer ear receives the sound 2) earflap directs sound down the auditory canal 3)Vibrations occur in the canal and vibrate the eardrum 4)middle ear is filled with 3 tiny bones which vibrate and push against the cochlea- this bony tube contains fluids and neurons. 5)Pressure causes the liquid to move hairs that are attached to sensory cells that pick up the motion and turn into neuronal impulses. 6)The auditory nerve caries impulses to the brain (temporal lobe)

400

Name at least 3 battles that took place before 1453

Answers will vary

500

Neurological condition where pathways for neural connections between senses are connected:

Synesthesia

500

When visual stimuli is presented for a brief time than abruptly removed it creates...

Afterimages

500

Depth perception skill that allows us to perceive roughness/coarseness

Texture Gradient

500

Describe in full detail the transduction of light into vision

What is 1)light enters the eye through the pupil and reaches the lens 2)the lens focuses the light on the retina 3) the retina contains the receptors, rods and cones, which turn the light energy into neuronal impulses 4) these impulses travel over the optic nerve to the brain where it is routed to the occipital lobe

500

Name at least 2 types of medieval siege weapons

Catapults/Trebuchests/Cannons (Late Medieval)/Sappers