The Big Picture
Vision
Perceptual Organization
The Ear
Wild Card
100
The way that physical energy affects the sensory receptors and organs.
What is sensation
100
A visual cue that happens when one object covering another makes the covered object appear farther away.
What is occlusion.
100
Theory of psychology that suggests that an observer sees a whole image as different from the sum of its parts
What is Gestalt psychology
100
The part of the ear that vibrates in response to sound
What is the Cochlea
100
The part of brain that relays sensation and spatial sense to the cortex.
What is the Thalamus
200
The organization of the various inputs of sensation and the understanding of neural processing, physics of sensations and how to behave in response.
What is Perception
200
A perception that differs from reality.
What is an optical illusion
200
Psychological theory that things that are moving in the same direction appear to form a unit, such as a swarm of bees.
What is Common fate
200
Sensory structures in the inner ear, responsive to acceleration and gravity.
What is the otolith organs
200
Area of the brain that deals with memory.
What is the Hippocampus
300
Scientists who believe that all knowledge comes from experience
Who are Empiricists
300
Optical illusion in which motion is incorrectly perceived in the periphery of the viewer’s eye. An example would be the sense of motion on a still train while a moving train passes on a parallel track.
What is visual drift illusion
300
Psychological theory suggesting that when points are connected in a way that forms a straight or smoothly curving line, they appear to follow the smoothest path
What is Good continuation
300
A system in the inner ear responsible for maintain the body’s sense of balance and orientation in space.
What is the Vestibular sensory system
300
The perception of external events without direct information from the senses.
What is extrasensory perception, or ESP
400
The process by which senses become less responsive to a particular stimuli.
What is sensory adaptation
400
An impression of depth that is perceived based on the slightly different position of the scene.
What is Stereopsis
400
Transforming information from the eyes or ears, for example, into electrical impulses that the brain can understand
What is Transduction
400
Sense of spinning or rotation while standing still .
What is vertigo
500
Examples of this include a candle flame approximately 30 miles away, one teaspoon of sugar in two gallons of water, one drop of perfume in a six-room house.
What is absolute threshold
500
An image that uses shifting patterns to create the illusion of depth. How 3-D movies are made.
What is a stereogram
500
The process by which senses become less responsive to particular stimuli. When we're exposed for a long time to any given stimulus, we stop perceiving it. Our brains can then pay attention to stimuli that are changing, which are theoretically more important than those staying the same
What is Sensory Adaptation
500
Feeling of rocking back and forth or dizziness for a prolonged period following travel by boat or car.
What is Mal de debarquement
500
The study of experiences that do not seem to have been perceived through known senses.
What is Mysticism
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