Sensation
The Senses
Perception
Vocab Terms
misc.
100
combined with past experience to yield a perception
What is Sensations?
100
Pitch
Sound depends on the vibration rate of the medium through which the sound wave is transmitted?
100
Hearing
Figure-ground perception is important in both _____ and vision?
100
olfactory nerve
Carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain?
100
psychophysics
The study of the relationship between sensory experiences and the physical stimuli?
200
Just noticeable difference
What is the smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus that a person can detect?
200
responsible for changing light energy into neuronal impulses
What is Rods and Cones?
200
The process by which your eyes turn inward to look at nearby objects
What is Convergence?
200
weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
What is absolute threshold?
200
retina
Innermost coating of the back of the eye, containing the light-sensitive receptor cells?
300
Preattentive Process
What is the method for extracting information automatically from a stimulus that a person can detect?
300
Many stimuli
Pain results from?
300
telepathy
What is the type of ESP involving reading someone else's mind or transferring one's thoughts?
300
motion parallax
Apparent movement of stationary objects relative to one another that occurs when the observer changes position?
300
flexible, transparent structure in the eye that changes its shape to focus light on the retina
What is Lens?
400
The principle that the larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for an observer to notice a change
What is weber's Law?
400
vestibular system
Overstimulation of the __________ can result in dizziness and "motion sickness"?
400
when we assume that a steep hill in the distance will not cause the highway we are on to come to an abrupt halt
What is Perceptual inference?
400
process of combining the images received from the two eyes into a single image
What is Binocular fusion?
400
Gestalt
Experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes?
500
study of people's tendencies to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of stimuli
What is Signal-detection theory?
500
NOT a form of electromagnetic radiation
What is Sound waves?
500
brief auditory or visual messages that are presented below the absolute threshold
What is Subliminal messages?
500
auditory nerve
Carries impulses from the inner ear to the brain, resulting in the sensation of sound?
500
constancy
Tendency to percieve certain objects in the same way regardless of changing angle, distance, or lighting?
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