Blinded By the Lights
I Can See Clearly Now
Do You Hear What I Hear?
My CHEMICAL Romance
Can't Touch This!
100
The receptors located toward the center of the retina that are responsible for day and color vision
What are cones?
100
(name the Gestalt principle)
What is closure?
100
The unit of measurement for a sound wave's amplitude
What are decibels (Db)?
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?
200
Theory of color vision that explains complementary afterimages
What is opponent-process theory?
200
The perceptual process that allows us to accurately read a series of words with jumbled up letters
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?
300
The transparent "window" of the eye through which light enters
What is the cornea?
300
The binocular depth cue that contrasts differing views of the same object from each eye
What is retinal disparity?
300
The brightness of a light is analogous to this feature of a sound
What is loudness?
300
Olfactory sensory input is not routed through this brain structure before being processed in the cerebral cortex
What is the thalamus?
300
The body sense that gathers sensory input from inner ear structures that send signals to the cerebellum
What is vestibular sense?
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
The tendency to experience a stable perception despite constantly changing sensory input (ex: your friend gets smaller as they walk away but you don't perceive them shrinking)
What is perceptual constancy?
400
The ear structure labeled B
What are the semicircular canals?
400
After being in the same classroom for 2.5 years, Mr. Harper barely notices the funky smell of the building (what has occurred?)
What is sensory habituation?
400
The neurotransmitter that plays a large role in our perception of pain
What are endorphins?
500
The path of a neural impulse through the retina (4 parts)
Rods/cones => Bipolar cells => Ganglion cells => Optic nerve
500
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?
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?