Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception

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Across
  1. 1. How high or low a sound is. (p. 157)
  2. 4. A portion of the temporal lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex. (p. 159)
  3. 5. A listener’s experience of sound quality or resonance. (p. 158)
  4. 9. Methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer’s sensitivity to that stimulus.
  5. 11. The idea that focused attention is not required to detect the individual features that comprise a stimulus, but is required to bind those individual features together. (p. 145)
  6. 13. The ability to see fine detail. (p. 134)
  7. 15. Photoreceptors that become active under low-light conditions for night vision. (p. 136)
  8. 18. The just noticeable difference of a stimulus is a constant proportion despite variations in intensity.
  9. 19. The perceptual experience of one sense that is evoked by another sense.
  10. 20. A fluid-filled tube that is the organ of auditory transduction. (p. 159)
  11. 21. The organ of taste transduction. (p. 169)
Down
  1. 1. Biochemical odorants emitted by other members of its species that can affect an animal’s behavior or physiology. (p. 167)
  2. 2. An observation that the response to a stimulus depends both on a person’s sensitivity to the stimulus in the presence of noise and on a person’s response criterion. (p. 131)
  3. 3. Specialized auditory receptor neurons embedded in the basilar membrane. (p. 159)
  4. 5. What takes place when many sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the central nervous system.
  5. 6. The inability to recognize objects by sight. (p. 143)
  6. 7. The minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected.
  7. 8. A sound’s intensity. (p. 157)
  8. 10. The active exploration of the environment by touching and grasping objects with our hands. (p. 162)
  9. 12. The process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information. (p. 430)
  10. 14. Photoreceptors that detect color, operate under normal daylight conditions, and allow us to focus on fine detail. (p. 136)
  11. 16. An area of the retina where vision is the clearest and there are no rods at all. (p. 136)
  12. 17. The organization, identification, and interpretation of a sensation in order to form a mental representation.