You Basic
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus best represents which key term?
Selective Attention
Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup
Name 1 of the 3 examples of grouping mentioned in the textbook. (All key terms)
Proximity
Continuity
Closure
What do we call the nerve that carries visual sensory information to the Thalamus for processing?
Optic Nerve
Positive Correlation
ALL PLAY: HEADS/TAILS CHALLENGE
Flips will vary
What feature of a sound wave determines the pitch of the sound?
Frequency
DUEL: SPELLING FACE-OFF
VISUAL
CLOSURE
GESTALT
BINOCULAR CUES
RETINAL DISPARITY
PHI PHENOMENON
Explain the difference between rods and cones.
Rods: Black & White. Edges of Retina
Cones: Color. Center of Retina
An experiment is the only form of research methods that can determine __________.
Cause and Effect
What occurs when experiences influence our interpretation of data?
(A): Selective Attention
(B): Transduction
(C): Bottom - Up Processing
(D): Top - Down Processing
(E): Signal Detection Theory
Define 1 of the 2 theories about how we hear.
Place Theory or Frequency Theory.
Monocular Cues and Binocular Cues both help us perceive __________.
Depth.
ALL PLAY: JUMBLE
SIRI..........NOAREC..........IULPP..........CPIOT RVEEN
IRIS..........CORNEA..........PUPIL..........OPTIC NERVE
Who is the gentlemen who had the pole shot through his head and survived? Which research method describes how we collected information about his story?
Phineas Gage. Case Study
Define Transduction.
Converting sensory information into neural impulses.
An individual who has trouble hearing because of damage to the auditory nerves, or cilia of the inner ear is said to have what kind of hearing loss.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gestalt Psychologists would have been interested in?
(A): Depth perception
(B): Why we see an object near us as closer rather than larger
(C): How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces
(D): What the smallest units of perception are
(E): The similarities between shape constancy and size constancy
(C): How an organized whole is formed out of its component pieces
Which color vision theory is best seen through staring at a black, green, and yellow colored UK flag for a minute and then staring at a white wall.
Opponent - Process Theory
ALL PLAY: CHARADES CHALLENGE
Amygdala
Explain the difference between Absolute Threshold and Difference Threshold.
Absolute Threshold is when you are just able to detect a stimulus (50% of the time) and the Difference Threshold is when you are just able to detect the difference or change of a stimulus (50% of the time).
ALL PLAY: PLAY-DOH CHALLENGE
Cochlea
Define color constancy.
Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing light alters the wavelengths reflected by the object (alters the perceived color).
What are feature detectors?
Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.
Name the 7 Psychological Perspectives
Biological. Behavioral. Cognitive. Evolutionary. Humanistic. Psychodynamic. Social - Cultural