Exam #2 (Quiz #1)

These ____ that cannot detect color and are used to help us see in low light are called rods

• Lens cells

• Cones

• Photoreceptors

• Hair cells

The vestibular sense provides us with our sense of ____ and is located in the ear

• Balance

• Audition

• Kinesthetic sense

• Gustation sense

The absolute threshold is the minimum intensity of a stimulus needed to correctly detect a stimulus ____ of the time

• 40%

• 55%

• 75%

• 50%

Light waves are the sensory stimulus for ____

• Lens cells

• Auditory cells

• Vision

• Pressure

Activation-synthesis model states that dreams are the result of ____ while being asleep

• Random brain activity

• Daydreaming

• Ability to tell the future

• Neurotransmitter use

Minimally conscious would be if you’re driving to school but you realize that you ___

• Remembered to put gas in your car

• Remembered to use your turn signal

• Know how far you are from your destination

• Don’t remember driving the pas 20 minutes

The olfactory sense is the only sense to bypass this brain structure

• Medulla

• Thalamus

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

Which psychologist spoke about identity being a key crisis in adolescence

• Erikson

• Freud

• Watson

• Skinner

Transduction will convert physical stimuli into electrochemical _____

• Endocrines

• Neurotransmitters

• Neural signals

• Brain waves

The fovea has the highest concentration of _____

• Blind spots

• Lens

• Rods

• Cones