While Attending a Musical Concert, You Find You Can Clearly

question 59

Multiple Choice

While attending a musical concert, you find you can clearly hear one particular instrument through the others as the song goes on, even though that instrument is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the instrument represents the ________, and the rest of the instruments and song are the ________.

• A) figure; ground
• B) object; ground
• C) object; subject
• D) pattern; whole

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Definitions:

Olfactory Epithelium

Two 1-square-inch patches of tissue, one at the top of each nasal cavity, which together contain about 10 million olfactory neurons, the receptors for smell.

Taste Receptors

Specialized cells located on the tongue that enable the perception of different tastes, such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Supertaster

is an individual with a heightened sensitivity to the tastes of foods, having more taste buds than average.

Glutamate

A major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain involved in memory, learning, and the regulation of the nervous system.