PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1
WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Perception - CORRECT ANSWERS-the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? - CORRECT ANSWERS-No, there are from 7-12 different
senses
neural tran...
PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1
WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2023\2024
, Perception - CORRECT ANSWERS-the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? - CORRECT ANSWERS-No, there are from 7-12 different
senses
neural transduction - CORRECT ANSWERS-receptors, transduction and neural
response
Sensation - CORRECT ANSWERS-activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in
the environment (physical stimulus---->neural signal)
Phenomenology - CORRECT ANSWERS-internal experience that everyone has of the
external world around them
Aristotle and the Five senses - CORRECT ANSWERS-Aristotle said there were five
senses - smell, sight, touch, taste, and hearing - but science suggests there are many
more than that
Thomas Young - CORRECT ANSWERS-showed that light, like waves, could be
diffracted, color recptors
Johannes Mueller - CORRECT ANSWERS-doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct
senses)
Von Helmholtz - CORRECT ANSWERS-perception is constructed from both senses
and cognitive processes, unconscious inference, three basic color receptors
Hering - CORRECT ANSWERS-colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing colors
(four primary colors, not three)
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