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Your friend has decided to participate in psychology study. The title of the study is: The effect if
light intensity on the experience of brightness. Your friend asks you." What area of psychology
is the study related to?" What tell her? correct answers Psychophysics
You walk into a room and notice that someone seems to have taken a bath in perfume. Over
time, you become less aware of the smell. What is this an example of? correct answers Sensory
Adaptation
What is the operational definition of a difference threshold? correct answers - When people study
stimulation and sensation
- What affects your perception of change
____ are the photoreceptors that contribute to you visual experience when there is little
illumination, whereas _____ are the photoreceptors that contribute to your visual experience
under normal or high levels of illumination? correct answers Rods, cones
As that carry neural messages to the visual centers in the brain, the optic nerves from each eye
first come together in the _____; as they continue, ______ of the fibers from each retina remain
on the side of the body which they originated. correct answers Optic chiasma/chiasm
Half [of the fibers...]
Sir Thomas Young proposed the existence of only three color receptors. How would you explain
our sensation of so many other colors? correct answers All the colors are added or subtracted
combinations of the colors at the time he identified
There is an interactive exhibit on the senses at a science fair. For the sense of hearing, there is a
gigantic ear through which viewers can walk. What is the order of the basic structures that the
patrons will encounter as they move through the ear? correct answers Pinna
Tympanic membrane aka eardrum
Both form outer ear
Ossicles
Coclia
Vesicle Membrane
Auditory mirror
Hair cells are to hearing as ______ are to the sense of smell. correct answers Olfactory cilia
What are the five primary qualities of taste correct answers Sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty
Where are kinesthetic receptors located? correct answers - Semicircular canals in our ear give us
our stimulate sense of rotational accelerations
- Muscles, joints, tendons
Your friend has decided to participate in psychology study. The title of the study is: The effect if
light intensity on the experience of brightness. Your friend asks you." What area of psychology
is the study related to?" What tell her? correct answers Psychophysics
You walk into a room and notice that someone seems to have taken a bath in perfume. Over
time, you become less aware of the smell. What is this an example of? correct answers Sensory
Adaptation
What is the operational definition of a difference threshold? correct answers - When people study
stimulation and sensation
- What affects your perception of change
____ are the photoreceptors that contribute to you visual experience when there is little
illumination, whereas _____ are the photoreceptors that contribute to your visual experience
under normal or high levels of illumination? correct answers Rods, cones
As that carry neural messages to the visual centers in the brain, the optic nerves from each eye
first come together in the _____; as they continue, ______ of the fibers from each retina remain
on the side of the body which they originated. correct answers Optic chiasma/chiasm
Half [of the fibers...]
Sir Thomas Young proposed the existence of only three color receptors. How would you explain
our sensation of so many other colors? correct answers All the colors are added or subtracted
combinations of the colors at the time he identified
There is an interactive exhibit on the senses at a science fair. For the sense of hearing, there is a
gigantic ear through which viewers can walk. What is the order of the basic structures that the
patrons will encounter as they move through the ear? correct answers Pinna
Tympanic membrane aka eardrum
Both form outer ear
Ossicles
Coclia
Vesicle Membrane
Auditory mirror
Hair cells are to hearing as ______ are to the sense of smell. correct answers Olfactory cilia
What are the five primary qualities of taste correct answers Sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty
Where are kinesthetic receptors located? correct answers - Semicircular canals in our ear give us
our stimulate sense of rotational accelerations
- Muscles, joints, tendons
