Unit 3 Review

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Unit 3 Review

• Sensation and Perception

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A 5th taste that was recently added by
investigators is known as

• Umami

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The minimal amount of a stimulus that you can
detect 50 of the time

• Absolute threshold

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The one-to-one relationship between the specific
nerve stimulated and the resulting type of
sensory experience is referred to as

• Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies

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Minimal CHANGE in a stimulus you can detect 50
of the time

• JND or Difference threshold

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When a stimulus is below the level of conscious
perception, but may still influence our behavior

• Subliminal perception

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The school of thought that BEST explains
perception is the

• Gestalt school

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The 3 bones of the middle ear in order are the

• Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup

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Other than umami, taste receptors pick up on

• Bitter, salty, sweet, sour

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Vestibular senses are processed in your

• Ears!

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Visual is to EYE as olfactory is to

• NOSE!

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Apparent movement caused by lights flashing on
and off

• Phi phenomenon

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Protein that is secreted from the nasal gland
binds to incoming particles of what we are
smelling

• OBP (yeah you smell me)

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Receptors in our muscles that tell us if our
muscles are contracting used for kinesthetic
senses

• Stretch receptors

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Theory of pain perception that explains why we
may not feel it if we saw off our finger

• Gate control theory

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Distorted human figure that represents the
concentration of receptor cells in the skin the
more dense, the larger the body part appears!

• homunculus

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Phenomenon that explains why orange juice tastes
awful after brushing your teeth

• Sensory adaptation

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Most of your CONES are housed in the

• fovea

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Chemicals that MAY influence behavior secreted
from the armpits and genitals and picked up in
the nose

• pheromones

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GUSTATORY senses refer to our sense of

• taste