Answer These Sensory Perception Flashcards

Basic immediate experiences that a stimulus elicits in a sense organ are called:

The process of interpreting, organizing, and elaborating on the raw materials of sensation is called:

Transduction can be defined as:

The minimum physical intensity of a stimulus that can be perceived by an observer 50% of the time is:

A greater portion of the human brain is devoted to________ than any of out other senses.

The __________ of visible light determines its hue, or color.

The film or image surface of a camera corresponds to the _______ if the eye

The focusing process in which the lens adjusts its shape depending on the distance between the eye and the object viewed in order to project a clear image onto the retina is called:

The spot inside the eye where the ganglion cells meet to form the optic nerve is known as the:

According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, the members of each system:

Loudness of sound is called_____ and expressed in units of ______

Which theory states that perception of low tones depends on the frequency with which auditory hair cells in the inner ear trigger the firing of neurons in the auditory nerve?

The sense of gustation is classified as a______ sense

Where do you find the receptors for the olfactory sense?

Which of the following is not one of the primary skin sensations?