Sensation 1

As she looks at her mother Jamie is able to recognize it is the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can do this?

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

• Bottom up processing

• Top down processing

The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time is termed

• absolute threshold

• change blindness

• selective attention

• perceptual organization

Analysis that begins with the individual parts and works its way up the whole is called

• bottom up processing

• top down processing

• selective attention

• choice blindness

This part of the eye carries the message from your eye to the part of your brain that controls vision. 

• cornea
• lens
• optic nerve
• retina

1. How many senses do we have as humans?

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 6

4. Your cells in your nose that can pick up smell are known as..

• Taste buds
• Nose buds
• Olfactory cells
• Plutonic cells

Photoreceptors that detect grey tones in low light are called...

• Rods
• Cones

Your eardrum is also known as the:

• Tympanic Membrane
• Tempanic Membrane
• Timpanic Membrane
• Tompanic Membrane

Which is True?

• There are an equal number of rods and cones.  Cones detect black and white
• there are an equal number of rods and cones.  Rods detect Black and White
• there are more cones than rods and cones detect black and white
•  There are more rods than cones and rods detect black and white

Which part of ear provides equilibrium?

• cochlea

• oval window

• semicircular canals

• ossicles