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VCE Psychology Unit 2 Questions and Answers
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Sensation Ans: the physical Detection and response to sensory
information vie sensory receptors.
Perception Ans: The cognitive detection of stimuli. assigning meaning to
incoming sensory information.
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Reception Ans: The process of detecting and responding to incoming
sensory information.
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Receptive field Ans: The area of space in which a sensory receptor can
respond to a stimulus or the specific area of sensitivity of a receptor cell
where a stimulus will affect its activity.
Transduction Ans: Converting incoming sensory information into a form
which can travel along neural pathways to the brain.
Transmission Ans: When sensory information is carried along neural
pathways.
Interpretation Ans: The process of assigning meaning to incoming
sensory information so that it can be understood.
Visual sensory system Ans: The complex network of physiological
structures involved in vision.
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Cornea Ans: Transparent, convex shaped covering which protects the
eye and helps to focus light rays onto the retina at the back of the eye.
Pupil Ans: An opening in the iris that helps to control the amount of light
entering the eye.
Iris Ans: The coloured part of the eye consisting of a ring of muscles that
expand or contract to change the size of the pupil and control the
amount of light entering the eye.
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Lens Ans: A transparent, flexible, convex structure located immediately
behind the pupil which plays a major role in focusing light onto the
retina.
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Retina Ans: Layer of neural tissue at the back of the eye that receives
and absorbs light, and processes images for transmission to the brain.
Photoreceptor Ans: A light sensitive visual receptors cell in the eye (rods
and cones)
Rod Ans: Photoreceptor in the eye's retina that responds to very low
levels of light; primarily responsible for night vision.
Cone Ans: Photoreceptor in the retina of the eye that responds to high
levels of light and is primarily responsible for colour vision and detecting
fine details.
Optic nerve Ans: Transmits visual information from the retina to the
primary visual cortex.