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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is Sensation?
Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.
refers to how the mind process information
refers to how we store information
- 2. Multiple Choice
Perception ca be defined as-
how we perceive different things
how we interpret the information from the external world
how we sense things from the external world
- 3. Multiple Choice
Absolute threshold refers to
The maximum stimulation required to say anything
minimum usage of sense organs
The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is Signal Detection theory?
Ability to detect various sounds and colors
Ability to focus on one stimulus and ignore others
Ability to see traffic signals
- 5. Multiple Choice
Vibration is crucial to which sense?
hearing
sight
smell
taste
- 6. Multiple Choice
Being able to see a candle flame 30 miles away on a clear night is the
absolute threshold for human vision
difference threshold for human vision
ratio threshold for human vision
bionic threshold for human vision
- 7. Multiple Choice
Problems with the vestibular system would likely cause a person to
not recognize shapes or colors
stumble or fall
fail to identify sound locations
not be bothered by touching hot objects
- 8. Multiple Choice
If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see
colors
shapes
sizes
distant objects
- 9. Multiple Choice
Juan's bag of marbles is twice as heavy as Beth's. If it takes 5 extra marbles to make Beth's bag feel heavier, it will take 10 extra marbles to make Juan's bag feel heavier. This best illustrates
absolute threshold
difference threshold
sensory adaptation
closure
- 10. Multiple Choice
Our sense of the position and movement of individual body parts is called
kinethesis
perception
sensation
retinal disparity
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThis part of the eye carries the message from your eye to the part of your brain that controls vision.cornealensoptic nerveretina
- 12. Multiple Choice1. How many senses do we have as humans?135
- 13. Multiple Choice4. Your cells in your nose that can pick up smell are known as..Taste budsNose budsOlfactory cellsPlutonic cells
- 14. Multiple ChoiceA soft object brushes lightly against you. You're most likely to feel the sensation if it touches your:handlegchestarm
- 15. Multiple ChoicePhotoreceptors that detect grey tones in low light are called...RodsCones
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe cells in your tongue that process taste are called...Olfactory bulbsGustatory cellsNervesPapillae
- 17. Multiple ChoiceYour eardrum is also known as the:Tympanic MembraneTempanic MembraneTimpanic MembraneTompanic Membrane
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe outer white part of the eyeball.ScleraVitreous BodyAnterior ChamberLens
- 19. Multiple ChoiceSpherical structure behind the cornea. It focuses light onto the retina.RetinaLensPupilSclera
- 20. Multiple Choice
Controls how much light enters the eye by changes the size of the pupil. It is also the color part of your eye.iriscorneaRetinapupil - 21. Multiple ChoiceReceptors that are responsible for transferring light into neural impulses.Rods & Cones of RetinaOptic StemCorneaIris
- 22. Multiple ChoiceThis theory states that we can lessen some pains by shifting our attention away from pain impulses.Pain perception methodGate-Control TheoryAcute sensation deprivationTheory of relativity
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