Exam 4: Sensing and Perceiving Our World

The textured structures on the tongue, called ________, contain about 10,000 taste buds.

Laura is nearsighted. Which of the following is true of the focus of visual images in her eye?

________ is the act of organizing and interpreting sensory experience.

In the context of photoreceptors, identify a true statement about cones.

In the context of photoreceptors, identify a true statement about rods.

The spectrum of color visible to humans ranges from 350 nm to 750 nm. Light that most of us perceive as ________ is at 750 nm.

The ________ sends information either directly to the smell-processing areas in the cortex or indirectly to the cortex by way of the thalamus.

Sounds below 20 Hz are called ________.

The ________ is a thin layer of nerve tissue that lines the back of the eye.

The ________ is the inner ear sensory receptor for sound that transduces sound vibrations into neural impulses.

After entering through the cornea, light passes through liquid until it reaches a hole called the ________.

The cells in the retina (called rods and cones) that convert light energy into nerve energy are called ________.

We see images with the greatest clarity when they are focused on the ________.

A ________ refers to the failure to detect a stimulus that is present.

The scale for a sound's loudness is ________.

________ is the stimulation of our sense organs by the outer world.

Physicians generally refrain from prescribing ________ as an opioid for pain relief.

The Gestalt law of ________ says that we tend to group together objects that are near one another.

Sasha has a severe back pain. Which of the following is an opioid that the doctor is likely to prescribe as an analgesic?

Karl, who had his leg amputated after an injury, reports that he still feels pain in his missing leg. Such an experience is referred to as ________ pain.