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PSY 105 Exam 2 UNCWsensation - correct answer ✔✔converts physical stimuli into patterns of nervous system responses
perception - correct answer ✔✔interprets nervous system responses
Vitreous Humor - correct answer ✔✔clear jelly-like substance in the eye
Retina - correct answer ✔✔area of the eye that contains all of your visual receptors
Presbyopia - correct answer ✔✔occurs in the middle age when the lens loses flexibility and acquires an
inability to bring nearby objects into focus
Myopia - correct answer ✔✔Nearsightedness (elongated eyeballs)
Hyperopia - correct answer ✔✔Farsightedness
Glaucoma - correct answer ✔✔Optic nerve damaged, peripheral vision impaired due to increased
pressure in the eyeball
Cataracts - correct answer ✔✔cause the lens in the eye to cloud
Cones - correct answer ✔✔A type of specialized neuron in the eye, make up about 5-10% of visual
receptors. Used in color vision, daytime, detect detail, not may in peripheral vision
Rods - correct answer ✔✔Make up most of the visual receptors in the eye, concentrated in peripheral
vision, used for night vision
, Pitch - correct answer ✔✔Frequency perception
Tympanic Membrane - correct answer ✔✔eardrum, sound waves strike the eardrum and send vibrations
to the three tiny bones in ear
The malleus - correct answer ✔✔(the hammer) tiny bone in ear that vibrates when hearing
The incus - correct answer ✔✔(the anvil) tiny bone that vibrates when hearing
The stapes - correct answer ✔✔(stirrup) tiny bone in ear that vibrates when hearing
Conduction deafness - correct answer ✔✔bones in ear not working properly
Nerve deafness - correct answer ✔✔Damage to structures that receive/transmit impulses (auditory
nerve, cochlea, hair cells)
Frequency principle - correct answer ✔✔principle used to hear up to 100 Hz
Volley principle - correct answer ✔✔principle used to hear from 100-4000 Hz (speech and music)
Place principle - correct answer ✔✔principle used to hear beyond 4000 Hz
Vestibular sense - correct answer ✔✔Balance, uses the vestibule in the ear which has semicircular canals
that are oriented in three different directions
Cutaneous Senses - correct answer ✔✔Touch; pressure, warmth, cold, pain, vibration, movement and
stretching of skin, these sense comprise the somatosensory system
Primary Somatosensory Cortex - correct answer ✔✔the fingertips and lips contain many more cutaneous
receptors than any other body regions
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