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Psychology watson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is sensation | the stimulation of sensory receptors ( the Feeling ) |
| What is perception | the interpretation of the feeling |
| What is absolute Threshold | weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed |
| What is Sensory Adaptation | Becoming more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli |
| What is vision | no other sense allows use to gather as much information |
| Roy G. BIV | main colors of the spectrum |
| Retina ? | Sensitive surface on the eye |
| How does sound travel ? | Through the air in waves |
| Pitch ? | How high or low the sound is |
| What is loudness of a sound determined by ? | The height of the amplitude |
| What is loudness measured in ? | Decibels (db) |
| Where's the middle ear | outer ear to eardrum |
| Where's the inner ear | behind the ear drum |
| what is conductive deafness | Occurs due to damage to the middle ear |
| What is senor ineural deafness | Caused by damage to the inner ear could be caused by disease, prolonged exposure to loud sounds |
| That ringing sensation in your ear after a loud concert ? | neurons were destroyed |
| when older people say their food has no taste | lost sense of smell |
| What does eating hot foods and scraping your tounge do ? | Kills the cells , but renew within a week |
| Skin senses ? | Pressure, tempatature & pain |
| Whats pain | originates at the point of contact |
| What is the gate theory of pain ? | pinching your arm can relieve the pain in your toe |
| Why do amputee patients ecperience " phantom" limb | the nerves in the stump of the missing limp activate and neural citciuts have memories of the limb being there |
| verstibular sense ? | tells you whether you are physically upright 9 helps balance |
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