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2. What is the third stage of the hearing process?

  • the ossicles vibrate onto oval window
  • impulses travel along the auditory nerve
  • sound travels down the ear canal
  • cilia on the basilar membrane fire action potentials
  • sound reaches the eardrum/tympanic membrane
  • waves are created in the fluid of the cochlea

3. Why 50% for 'absolute threshold'?

  • a person may imagine they detected something
  • accounts for 'noise'
  • people make mistake
  • accounts for distractions

4. What is the third step from photo receptor to sensation?

  • Information is sent up the optic nerve to the brain
  • Information is re-routed to the thalamus and then to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe
  • Information from the eye meets at the optic chiasm
  • Information is sent to ganglion cells via bipolar cells

5. What does bleaching initiate?

  • transmission of information to the brain
  • vision
  • the break down of photo pigment
  • the activation of the retina

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