Psych 230 - Exam 1 (UIUC) 2025 COMPLETE
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This (e.g. running your finger-tips over the object) allows you to differentiate
between fine differences in texture (e.g. grades of sandpaper)
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1 Are there really five senses? 2 unconscious inference
3 Receptors 4 Active exploration
Don't know?
, Terms in this set (172)
No, there are around 7-12 senses (vision, hearing,
Are there really five
smell, taste, light touch, pressure, cold, hot, pain, itch,
senses?
vestibular, and proprioception)
the process by which our sensory receptors and
Sensation nervous system receive and represent stimulus
energies from our environment
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
Perception information, enabling us to recognize meaningful
objects and events (putting meaning behind senses)
Stimulus energy is converted into ... messages through
neural transduction
the process of sensory ...
parts of the cell membrane that receive the
Receptors neurotransmitter and initiate or prevent a new electric
signal
conversion of one form of energy into another. In
sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies, such
Transduction
as sights, sounds, and smells, into neural impulses our
brains can interpret.
the signal produced by receptor cells that can then
neural response
be sent to the brain
The study of individuals' own unique, first-person,
Phenomenology
conscious experience.
believed that there were only 5 senses (sight, smell,
Aristotle five sense
touch,
Thomas Young showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted
Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies - because all
nerve fibers carry the same type of message, sensory
Johannes Muller
information must be specified by the particular nerve
fibers that are active.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
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This (e.g. running your finger-tips over the object) allows you to differentiate
between fine differences in texture (e.g. grades of sandpaper)
Choose an answer
1 Are there really five senses? 2 unconscious inference
3 Receptors 4 Active exploration
Don't know?
, Terms in this set (172)
No, there are around 7-12 senses (vision, hearing,
Are there really five
smell, taste, light touch, pressure, cold, hot, pain, itch,
senses?
vestibular, and proprioception)
the process by which our sensory receptors and
Sensation nervous system receive and represent stimulus
energies from our environment
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory
Perception information, enabling us to recognize meaningful
objects and events (putting meaning behind senses)
Stimulus energy is converted into ... messages through
neural transduction
the process of sensory ...
parts of the cell membrane that receive the
Receptors neurotransmitter and initiate or prevent a new electric
signal
conversion of one form of energy into another. In
sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies, such
Transduction
as sights, sounds, and smells, into neural impulses our
brains can interpret.
the signal produced by receptor cells that can then
neural response
be sent to the brain
The study of individuals' own unique, first-person,
Phenomenology
conscious experience.
believed that there were only 5 senses (sight, smell,
Aristotle five sense
touch,
Thomas Young showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted
Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies - because all
nerve fibers carry the same type of message, sensory
Johannes Muller
information must be specified by the particular nerve
fibers that are active.
