Sensation & Perception
Identifying a completely unfamiliar fruit by analysing its shape, colour, and texture from scratch, with no prior reference point.
Bottom up processing.
layer at the back of the eye that has the photoreceptors that detect light.
retina
The form of stimuli that is detected by our gustatory perception.
What are chemical molecules?
Term used to describe depth cues that require the use of both eyes to perceive 3D images.
What are binocular depth cues?
A page of scattered bold words seems to "belong together" as a group, even though they're spread across the page — explained by this principle.
similarity
Name of energy that can travel through and be recognised by the brain.
What is a neural impulse?
Part of the eye that sends neural information from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The taste whose role it is to prevent the intake of poisonous substances.
What is bitter (or sour)?
The process where both eyes look inwards towards a source of light.
What is convergence?
Texting while walking requires this type of attention, splitting focus across two tasks at once.
divided attention
What is Transmission?
Area of the brain where neural impulses of visual information are sent to during transmission.
What is the primary visual cortex?
Area of the brain responsible for the interpreting/perceiving taste information.
primary gustatory cortex
Parallel lines, like railway tracks, appear to converge toward a single point in the distance — monocular depth cue
linear perspective
Peer pressure to like a particular food is considered a part of what factor from the Biopsychosocial model.
What is a social factor?
When you see a flock of birds and mentally group the ones flying close together as one cluster, this principle is at work.
Principle of proximity
Primarily responsible for our vision in well-lit conditions.
What are cones?
The official term used to describe our taste of 'savory'.
What is Umami?
Monocular depth cue where the details of an object become more difficult to recognise the further away the object is.
What is texture gradient?
Your brain automatically corrects a scrambled or misspelled word in a sentence because it matches what you expected to read, based on context.
perceptual set
This type of processing uses existing knowledge, past experience, context or expectations to interpret incoming sensory information.
top down processing
This is the process by which light energy (electromagnetic energy) is converted into a form that can travel along neurons as neural impulses.
transduction
__________ can influence our taste by determining how we expect something to taste.
What are past experiences?
The term used to describe the difference between the images perceived by each eye due to their slightly different positions on the face.
What is retinal disparity?
Getting enough sleep to perform well the next day is considered a part of what factor from the Biopsychosocal model?
What is a biological factor?