Sensation
Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system recieve stimulus from our environment.
What is sensation?
Transduction for the eye takes place here
What is the retina?
This is where conduction takes place in the ear.
What is the cochlea?
___ psychology says we perceive whole objects or figures rather than just a collection of parts.
What is gestalt?
This type of neuron sends messages TO the brain
What are sensory neurons?
the smallest level of energy required by an external stimulus to be detectable by the human senses
What is absolute threshold?
This process is why you can look at your phone and then at something in the distance and see both clearly.
What is accomodation?
This type of hearing loss may occur if the eardrum is ruptured.
What is conduction deafness?
This is a mental predisposition that influences what we perceive.
What is a perceptual set?
A fast heart rate and increasing blood pressure may be signs of the ____ nervous system being active.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Retinal receptor cells responsible for low light and night vision
This type of hearing loss is caused by damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve.
What is sensorineural deafness?
We miss our own typos because we know what we intended.” This best illustrates what type of processing?
What is top-down processing?
These are large, slow waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
Give an example of sensory adaptation
not smelling perfume after wearing it often
not feeling your watch on your wrist
Retinal receptor cells that are responsible for color vision and function best in daylight.
What are cones?
The brain's ability to determine the location of a sound source in space.
What is sound localization?
The way our brain makes sense of information by starting with the small details and then building up to a complete perception.
What is bottom-up processing?
What is REM rebound?
increase in REM sleep after a night of being sleep deprived
The larger the ___, the brighter the color or the louder the sound
what is amplitude?
The idea that different parts of the inner ear detect different sound frequencies.
occurs when one object overlaps another, leading us to perceive the overlapping object as closer.
What is interposition?
Someone with seizures may have their ___ cut, resulting in them becoming a "split-brain" patient.