Blinded By the Lights
I Can See Clearly Now
Do You Hear What I Hear?
My CHEMICAL Romance
Can't Touch This!
Getting Organized
100
The receptors located toward the center of the retina that are responsible for day and color vision
What are cones?
100
Minimum stimulation necessary to detect a sense 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
100
The strength of the soundwave.
What is amplitude?
100
Someone who tends to be extremely sensitive to sweet and bitter tastes and spicy foods
What is a supertaster?
100
Where tactile receptors are located
What is skin?
100
Tendency to see incomplete figures as complete
What is closure?
200
Theory of color vision that explains complementary afterimages
What is opponent-process theory?
200
The perceptual process that works from big picture (general) to small details (specific).
What is top-down processing?
200
The three tiniest bones in your body, collectively known as the ossicles
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
200
The proper name for our sense of taste
What is gustatory system/gustation?
200
The lobe and cortex responsible for processing tactile sensory input
What is the parietal lobe; somatosensory cortex?
200
Tendency to group nearby objects together
What is proximity?
300
Visual signal that the objects are closer than the ones behind it.
What is interposition?
300
For people to perceive a difference, the stimuli must differ by a constant proportion/percentage.
What is Weber's Law?
300
The membrane in the cochlea that vibrates in response to sound waves
What is basilar membrane?
300
Olfactory sensory input is not routed through this brain structure before being processed in the cerebral cortex
What is the thalamus?
300
When senses become joined and one sort of sensation produces another.
What is synethesia?
300
Grouping similar objects together
What is similarity?
400
After the opening number, Rachel's eyes are no longer bothered by the bright stage lights (what has occurred?)
What is sensory adaptation?
400
Using features on the object (details) itself to build a perception (big picture).
What is bottom-up processing?
400
The ear structure labeled B
What are the semicircular canals?
400
We hear different pitches because different sound waves trigger activity at different areas in the cochlea.
What is place theory of hearing?
400
The neurotransmitter that plays a large role in our perception of pain
What are endorphins?
400
Our tendency to distinguish objects from their background
What is figure-ground?
500
The path of a neural impulse through the retina (4 parts)
Rods/cones => Bipolar cells => Ganglion cells => Optic nerve
500
The detection of a stimulus depends on both the intensity of the stimulus and the psychological state of the individual.
What is a signal detection theory?
500
The theory that says pitch perception depends on the rate that the entire basilar membrane vibrates
What is frequency theory?
500
The process of converting sensory input into signals that can be processed in the brain
What is transduction?
500
The theory that explains why biting your tongue while getting an injection blocks your experience of pain from the needle
What is gate-control theory?
500
The school of psychology that studies how we organize perceptual information
What is Gestalt psychology?