PSY 140 WEEK 3 Knowledge Check

PSY 140 WEEK 3 Knowledge Check
 Introduction to Psychology
Match the Key Term with the proper definition
1.      Absolute threshold	1.    Law stating that the amount of change in a stimulus needed to detect a difference is in direct proportion to the intensity of the original stimulus.	
2.      Basilar membrane	2.    Translation of energy from one form to another.	
3.      Psychophysics	3.    A state of awareness.	
4.      Weber's law	4.    Altered state of consciousness, sometimes achieved during meditation, that is said to transcend normal human experience.	
5.      Transduction	5.    Specialty area of psychology that studies sensory limits, sensory adaptation, and related topics.	
6.      Consciousness	6.    According to Freud, the literal meaning of dreams.	
7.      Depersonalization	7.    The perceptual experience of one's body or surroundings becoming distorted or unreal in some way.	
8.      Manifest content	8.    Characterized by movement of the eyes under the lids; often accompanies dreams.	
9.      REM sleep	9.    The smallest magnitude of a stimulus that can be detected half the time.	
10.      Transcendental state	10.    One of the membranes that separate the two tubes of the cochlea and on which the organ of Corti rests.