The receptors located toward the center of the retina that are responsible for day and color vision
What are cones?
(name the Gestalt principle)
What is closure?
The unit of measurement for a sound wave's amplitude
What are decibels (Db)?
The proper name for our sense of taste
What is gustation?
Where tactile receptors are located
What is skin?
Theory of color vision that explains complementary afterimages
What is opponent-process theory?
The perceptual process that allows us to accurately read a series of words with jumbled up letters
What is top-down processing?
The three tiniest bones in your body, collectively known as the ossicles
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Someone who tends to be extremely sensitive to sweet and bitter tastes and spicy foods
What is a supertaster?
The lobe and cortex responsible for processing tactile sensory input
What is the parietal lobe; somatosensory cortex?
The transparent "window" of the eye through which light enters
What is the cornea?
The binocular depth cue that contrasts differing views of the same object from each eye
What is retinal disparity?
The brightness of a light is analogous to this feature of a sound
What is loudness?
The principle that explains why your favorite meal might taste bland while congested with a cold
What is sensory interaction?
The body sense that gathers sensory input from inner ear structures that send signals to the cerebellum
What is vestibular sense?
After performing the opening number, Rachel's eyes are no longer bothered by the bright stage lights (what has occurred?)
What is sensory adaptation?
The term that explains why placing the below figure between "A" and "C" would lead you to perceive the figure as "B" instead of "13"
What is a perceptual set?
The ear structure labeled B
What are the semicircular canals?
Olfactory sensory input is not routed through this brain structure before being processed in the cerebral cortex
What is the thalamus?
A neurotransmitter that plays a large role in our perception of pain
What are endorphins OR Substance P?
The path of a neural impulse through the retina (4 parts)
Rods/cones => Bipolar cells => Ganglion cells => Optic nerve
perceiving objects as unchanging (such as consistent color, brightness, shape, or size) even as illumination and retinal images change (ex: your friend gets smaller as they walk away but you don't perceive them shrinking)
What is perceptual constancy?
The theory that says pitch perception depends on the rate that the entire basilar membrane vibrates
What is frequency theory?
After being in the same classroom for 4.5 years, Mr. Heidegger barely notices the funky smell of the building (what has occurred?)
What is sensory habituation?
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?