Important Terms
Your interpretation of the information that is taken in by your senses is called this.
What is perception?
Sense that is not processed in the thalamus
What is smell?
When lighting is very dim, this part of the eye adjusts to let in as much light as possible.
What is the iris?
In waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is frequency?
Name 3 gestalt principles of perception
similarity, connectedness, continuity, closure, proximity
Receiving raw information from the senses is known as this.
What is sensation?
This identifies the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
What is Gestalt psychology?
The hole in the center of the eye, where light enters.
What is the pupil?
Separates ear canal from middle ear - vibrates in response to sound waves
what is the eardrum?
The tendency to see floor tiles as one pattern, rather than as separate squares is caused by this principle.
What is continuity?
Explain the difference between top-down and bottom-up processing
bottom up - processing sensory info as it comes in
top down - perception driven by cognition - brain applies what it knows
Sound is measured in
what is a decibel?
The photoreceptors that don't work well in dim light, but perceive details.
What are cones?
This is the fluid filled, snail shaped structure, where sound waves are amplified and sent onto the brain.
What is the cochlea?
The perceived further distance of something which is higher in your visual field.
What is relative height?
Detecting about one drop of perfume diffused throughout a small house is an example of:
What is absolute threshold?
You keep the lighting on your phone as dim as the settings allow. When others look at your phone, they can hardly see anything. What explains your ability to see the screen perfectly clearly?
What is sensory adaptation?
Most people with color-deficient vison are not actually "colorblind". They simply lack functioning _________ or _____________ sensitive cones, or sometimes both. (two colors)
What are red or green?
This part of the ear helps with balance
what is the semicircular canals?
The apparent meeting of two parallel lines in the distance - helps us judge distance
What is linear perspective?
AKA the just noticeable difference, this is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli half the time.
What is difference threshold?
The McGurk Effect occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. This is an example of....
What is sensory interaction?
This part of the eye carries information to your brain, where the thalamus will receive and distribute the information.
What is the optic nerve?
These are the nicknames for the smallest bones in our body- the three bones located in the middle ear.
What are the anvil, the stirrup, and the hammer?
perception cue that uses the differences in the visual fields of each eye to judge depth
What is retinal disparity?