Sleep
What test is most useful for identifying brain waves when a person is asleep?
EEG (Electroencephalogram)
When you look at an image for long enough and then look away and it's a different color where you are looking, what theory is that known as?
Opponent-Process Theory
What part of the eye sends neural impulses to the brain?
The Optic Nerve
How can you describe frequency?
The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time (such as per second)
What does it mean to be a supertaster?
You are very sensitive to things such as spicy foods
Brad is sleeping terribly at night and heavily snoring. His poor wife cannot sleep with all of the noise he is making and it sounds like he is dying at times with his breathing even stopping at times. What sleep disorder does Brad have?
Sleep Apnea
Joanna is really enjoying the movie that her brother Steve is watching. She asks him to turn the volume up so he turns it up one. Joanna did not notice though. What is this called?
Difference Threshold (Just Noticeable Difference)
Geroge is playing a game where he has to identify between two different colors of Blue. What part of the eye would be most useful in identifying color?
Cones
Why is hearing important for balance?
Vestibular sense monitor's your head's position. If it changes, so can your head's balance.
If Dave is trying to balance on one foot and falls over, what is likely off?
His Vestibular Sense
Jamie is walking in the park and stops before she walks right into a bench. What sense allowed Jamie to realize where her body was at and stop without looking at her body
Kinesthetic Sense
Under Trichromatic Theory, we see in three different types of color receptors. What will be an issue if this is damaged?
You will not see things in the correct color and suffer from color deficiency.
What is the light sensitive back inner surface of the eye called that accepts images?
Retina
What would be wrong about an experiment where the impact of listening to music loudly for two hours every night is tested?
Ethical Standards: Do No Harm as the participants are suffering long-term damages in this case.
When Rose enters the barn, she is extremely offput by the smell of the pigs in there. After a few hours of work, she hardly notices the smell anymore. What is this known as?
Sensory Adaptation
When Mr. Glomski went to London, he was extremely tired the next day at 7 AM when he woke up because London is five hours ahead of Florida. What was thrown off balance from his travels there?
His circadian rhythm
List TWO things that happen to you during REM sleep.
Two of the following:
Dreaming Happens
Irregular Breathing
Complete Loss of Muscle Tone
Rise in Heart Rate
Ability to be Awoken more Easily
Why does one not notice their blind spot?
The brain will fill in the blind spot and is not aware that the space is incomplete.
Provide an example of something with a low pitch and a high pitch. Explain.
Provide an example of two senses being used at the same time AND an example of sensory adaptation involving them.
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