The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
What is Sensation
100
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
What is Perception
100
Where does light enter through?
What is the cornea
100
The sense or act of hearing
What is audition
100
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.
What is kinesthesis
200
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold
200
The organization of the visual fields into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
What is figure-ground
200
The process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina
What is accommodation
200
What is the pathway that sound waves go through in the ear?
What is outer ear, middle ear, inner ear
200
Taste and smell are what kind of senses?
What is chemical senses
300
The principle that to be perceived as different, two stimuli must be differ by a constant minimum percent
What is Weber's Law
300
The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
What is grouping
300
Nerve cells in the brain that respons to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle or movement.
What is feature detection
300
Little hairs in your ear are found in what ear structure?
What is the cochlea
300
What is the theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain?
What is the gate-control theory
400
Below one's absolute threshold for conscious awarness
What is subliminal
400
After hearing about the outbreak of the flu Jane began to perceive herself to be feeling nauseous and achy. This is an example of what?
What is Perceptual set
400
Where is the visual cortex located in the brain?
What is the thalamus.
400
Where is the auditory cortex located in the brain?
What is the temporal lobe
400
Where does smell go to instead of the brain?
What is the olfactory bulb
500
Another name for difference threshold
What is just noticeable difference (jnd)
500
The retina contains three different color receptors—one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue—which, when stimulated in combination, can produce the perception of any color
What is Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic (Three-Color) Theory
500
Neural signals activate bipolar cells and the bipolar cells activate the ganglion cells. The ganglion cells goes to the what?
What is the optic nerve
500
Why is it harder to distinguish sounds directly in front, above and below you?