Exam 2 Study Guide Ch’s 4, 5, 6, & 7
Ch 4
Define sensation and perception
What is the pathway of light through the eye and to the visual cortex?
What is the spectrum of visible light from shortest to longest wavelength?
What are the specialized cells in the retina?
What is the blindspot?
What is the fovea?
What is the pathway of sound through the ear and to the auditory cortex?
What is the range of sound we hear?
What are the theories of pitch perception?
What is Weber’s Law?
What is the just noticeable difference?
What is the absolute threshold?
What is selective attention?
What is visual agnosia?
How many tastes are we sensitive to?
How do our sense of taste and sense of smell work together?
What is the vestibular sense? (Hint: it deals with my story about being spun around in a chair)
What is sensory adaptation?
What is Gestalt psychology?
What is top-down vs bottom-up processing?
How do we distinguish depth? What are monocular and binocular cues for depth-perception?
What is binocular or retinal disparity?
What is the phi phenomenon?
Ch. 5
What is consciousness?
What is the circadian rhythm?
o Which hormone is involved?
What does sleep look like?
o What are the stages?
o What classifies each stage of sleep?
o How are the different sleep disorders related to each of these stages?
More generally what are the sleep disorders and how are they treated?
o How do we study sleep?
What are the three theories of dreaming discussed in class?
What are the different classifications of drugs? Which drugs are in which category?
o How do those drugs work in the nervous system?
The devil’s in the details. Go into depth on each of these bullet points.
Ch. 6
Ch 4
Define sensation and perception
What is the pathway of light through the eye and to the visual cortex?
What is the spectrum of visible light from shortest to longest wavelength?
What are the specialized cells in the retina?
What is the blindspot?
What is the fovea?
What is the pathway of sound through the ear and to the auditory cortex?
What is the range of sound we hear?
What are the theories of pitch perception?
What is Weber’s Law?
What is the just noticeable difference?
What is the absolute threshold?
What is selective attention?
What is visual agnosia?
How many tastes are we sensitive to?
How do our sense of taste and sense of smell work together?
What is the vestibular sense? (Hint: it deals with my story about being spun around in a chair)
What is sensory adaptation?
What is Gestalt psychology?
What is top-down vs bottom-up processing?
How do we distinguish depth? What are monocular and binocular cues for depth-perception?
What is binocular or retinal disparity?
What is the phi phenomenon?
Ch. 5
What is consciousness?
What is the circadian rhythm?
o Which hormone is involved?
What does sleep look like?
o What are the stages?
o What classifies each stage of sleep?
o How are the different sleep disorders related to each of these stages?
More generally what are the sleep disorders and how are they treated?
o How do we study sleep?
What are the three theories of dreaming discussed in class?
What are the different classifications of drugs? Which drugs are in which category?
o How do those drugs work in the nervous system?
The devil’s in the details. Go into depth on each of these bullet points.
Ch. 6
