When we have no prior knowledge of a stimulus we use this type of processing to process sensory information as it is coming in.
bottom up processing
100
When we use information we already have in our memory to select, organize, and interpret new sensory information.
top down processing
100
According to Signal Detection Theory, what factors can affect how our personal absolute thresholds vary? Name at least three!
experience, expectation, motivation, and/or levels of fatigue
100
The retina contains three color receptors. What three colors do these receptors detect?
red, blue, and green
100
True/False: The existence of ESP be definitely proven.
False
200
What do we use our senses to detect?
Physical energy from our environment and things we interact with.
200
The ability to attend to only one voice at a time (with the exception of when your name is being called).
cocktail party effect
200
When the brain processes many aspects of a problem/situation at the same time.
parallel processing
200
Fill in the blank: When you stare at the color red for a long time and then look away, you are likely to then see the color green. This is an example of the __________ theory.
opponent-process theory
200
What is the field that studies ESP/paranormal phenomena called?
parapsychology
300
What are the five kinds of stimulus energies that we encode into neural impulses?
touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell
300
Fill in the blanks: __________ failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere, whereas __________ is the failure to see visible changes in objects or hear a change in voices when our attention is directed elsewhere.
inattentional blindness, change blindness
300
This lobe is used for complex processing of feature detection.
temporal lobe
300
Sammy wears glasses that flip the images of what she sees so that shes sees everything upside down. After wearing these glasses for a week she is now able to do daily tasks that were once difficult when she only had the glasses on for an hour. This is an example of __________.
Define the process of transduction (in terms of sensation).
The transformation of a stimuli from our environment into neural signals.
400
An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.
Phi Phenomenon
400
The opposite of parallel processing; step by step, computer problem solving method.
serial processing
400
Fill in the blanks: In reference to convergence, as an object comes close, our eyes move _____. The closer the object, the _____ the inward strain.
inwards, greater
400
What does ESP stand for?
Extra Sensory Perception
500
What is the study of the relationship between physical characteristics of a stimuli (for example their intensity) and how that can affect the way we experience it?
psychophysics
500
Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone.
monocular cues
500
This theory suggests that opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red/green, blue/yellow, black/white).
opponent-process theory
500
What type of psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into a meaningful whole?
Gestalt psychologists
500
What did parapsychologists create the "mind machine" for?
To see if people could accurately predict the result of a coin toss.