AP PSYCHOLOGY

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

BASIC CONCEPTS OF SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following types of cells are located in the brain’s occipital lobe?
A
cochlea cells
B
feature detectors
C
rods and cones
D
bipolar cells
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Visual acuity. Which of the following types of cells are located in the brain’s occipital lobe? Parallel processing. The retina contains 3 kinds of color receptors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The occipital lobe is a vast region of the brain and contains a mix of neurons, microglia, astrocytes, and vasculature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Feature detectors are nerve cells located in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe that respond to a scene’s edges, lines, angles and movements.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the area of psychology, the feature detectors are neurons in the visual cortex that receive visual information and respond to certain features such as lines, angles, movements, etc.

Detailed explanation-5: -Feature detectors are individual neurons-or groups of neurons-in the brain which code for perceptually significant stimuli. Early in the sensory pathway feature detectors tend to have simple properties; later they become more and more complex as the features to which they respond become more and more specific.

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