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Psychology as a Natural Science Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Sensation - Ans:-occurs when the receptors for sensory systems detect energy from the external environment Perception - Ans:-occurs when the information from sensation is processed within the CNS Doctrine of Specific Ener...

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Psychology as a Natural Science Exam
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Sensation - Ans:✔✔-occurs when the receptors for sensory systems detect energy from the

external environment


Perception - Ans:✔✔-occurs when the information from sensation is processed within the CNS


Doctrine of Specific Energies - Ans:✔✔-receptors and neural channels for different senses are

independent


Labeled lines - Ans:✔✔-particular nerve cells are labeled for distinctive sensory experiences


Adequate stimulus - Ans:✔✔-the type of stimulus for which a given sensory organ is particularly

adapted


Transduction - Ans:✔✔-means by which physical energy is changed into neural impulses


Pacinian Corpuscle - Ans:✔✔-a receptor that detects vibration


Coding - Ans:✔✔-patterns of action potentials in a sensory system must reflect a stimulus


Adaptation - Ans:✔✔-progressive loss of response when stimulation is maintained


Suppression - Ans:✔✔-suppress irrelevant stimuli and note the important changes of stimuli

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Receptive fields - Ans:✔✔-space in which a stimulus will alter a neuron's firing rate


Attention - Ans:✔✔-generalized state of awareness of inputs


Selective attention - Ans:✔✔-Brain only allows us to focus on one thing at a time


Hierarchical organization - Ans:✔✔-more important information is enhanced while extraneous

information is suppressed


Tonic - Ans:✔✔-little adaptation


Phasic - Ans:✔✔-display adaption


Olfactory epithelium - Ans:✔✔-sheet of cells in the nasal cavity where olfactory receptors are

located


Turbinates - Ans:✔✔-curved surface in the nasal cavity that directs air flow


Olfactory bulb - Ans:✔✔-complex structure at the anterior end of the brain where numerous

axons of the olfactory nerve terminate


Glomeruli - Ans:✔✔-spherical units containing mitral cells where synapses occur


Anosmia - Ans:✔✔-inability to smell


Pheromones - Ans:✔✔-Odor signals or trails secreted by animals


External ear - Ans:✔✔-collects sound waves and physically transforms sound energies


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