Psych 230 - Exam 1 (Uiuc) Complete Questions And Solutions Already Passed

Nociceptors {Ans: Receptors in the skin that give rise to the sense of pain; they respond to various forms of tissue damage and to temperature extremes.}Lock and Key {Ans: Bitter and Sweet}law of proximity {Ans: elements close to one another tend to be perceived as a unit}Reciever operating characteristic (ROC) {Ans: a curve representing the quality of a participant's performance}olfactory pathway {Ans: -molecules inhaled into nasal passages -contact olfactory nerves in olfactory epithelium -receptor cells activated -signal is sent to olfactory bulb -signals relayed to higher regions of brain via olfactory tract}taste {Ans: the perception of the transduction of tastants along the surface of the tongue}unconscious inference {Ans: Helmholtz's idea that some of our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions that we make about the environment.}Sweet {Ans: suagr, glucose (energy), food and industry ass sugar for flavor, false glucose levels cause weight gain and increase of food consumption --> lock and key}Weber's law states that: {Ans: The size of a just noticeable difference is related to the intensity of the stimulus}Homunculus {Ans: a maplike representation of regions of the body in the brain}Prosopagnosia {Ans: inability to recognize faces}Umami