Parts of Eye
These photo receptors are responsible for color vision.
What are cones?
These are the divisions of supporting parts of the ear.
The occurance of a stimulus becoming less noticeable after constant exposure to it.
What is sensory adaptation?
People's tendency to perceive complete figures that are, in reality, incomplete.
A Russian psychologist who pioneered the study of learning and classical conditioning. Famous for his study with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This dark part of the eye is located in the center of the iris.
What is the pupil?
This part of the inner ear has hair like cells that help the brain interpret sounds.
What is the basilar membrane?
The smallest amount by which two sensory stimuli can differ in order for an individual to perceive them as different.
What is difference threshold?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere (i.e. invisible gorilla).
What is inattentional blindness?
Utilized the concept of natural selection to understand the mental behaviors of developing living species, studied evolutionary psychology.
Who is Charles Darwin?
These photo receptors are responsible for vision at low light levels.
What are rods?
These parts of the ear make up the outer ear.
What are the pinna and tympanic membrane?
When our construct perceptions are drawn from our experiences and expectations.
These are brain functions that are simultaneous. Color, motion, form, and depth are processed are the same time.
Studied emotional responses and childhood. Also studied how thought processes affect our behavior. Creator of the psycho-sexual stages.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is the optic nerve?
What are the ossicles?
This is phenomenon consisting of an optical illusion that leads the brain to see a moving object from a series of images.
What is the phi phenomenon?
The conversion of one form of energy into another; the transforming of stimulus energies, such as sight, sound, and smells, into neural impulses our brains can interpret.
What is transduction?
Learned under William James, was denied Harvard PHD because of her gender despite having all of her requirements, and was the first female APA president.
Who was Mary Whiton Calkins?
This transparent cover of the eye is where light initially enters.
What is the cornea?
What is the cochlea?
This is the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant percentage.
What is Weber's Law?
A functionalist - one who studied how mental and behavioral processes function and how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. AKA the father of American psychology.
Who is William James?