Psyc 230 Uiuc Exam 1 Questions And Answers

odor sensitivity and recognition {Ans: the combinations of olfactory receptors; odors evoke memories and feelings}kinesthetic receptors {Ans: Mechanoreceptors in muscles, tendons, and joints Play an important role in sense of where limbs are, what kinds of movements are made}Thermoreceptors {Ans: detect changes in temperature (cold and warm fibers)}Alien hand: hemisomatognosia {Ans: Loss of the sense of one's own body (ex: video of the guy thinking the fake hand being hammered down is their own)}Correct Rejection {Ans: signal not present, signal not detected}Law of Good Continuation (Gestalt) {Ans: elements that appear to follow the same pathway tend to be grouped together}cognitive habituation {Ans: The psychological process by which, after long-term exposure to an odor, one no longer has the ability to detect that odor or has very diminished detection ability.}method of adjustment {Ans: the experimenter or the observer adjusts the stimulus intensity in a continuous manner until the observer detects the stimulus}two-point threshold {Ans: minimum distance necessary between two points of stimulation on the skin such that the points will be felt as two distinct stimuli}olfactory pathway {Ans: Odor -> olfactory nerves in olfactory epithelium -> olfactory bulb -> olfactory tract}microsmatic