Sensation/Perception
Video
Seeing
Hearing
Smell,taste,and Touch
100
The detection of physical energy by sense organs which then send information to the brain.
What is sensation
100
The number of optical illusions in the second video
What are 10?
100
The intensity of the reflected light that reaches our eyes
What is brightness?
100
The quality or complexity of sound
What is timbre?
100
Another name for olfaction
What is smell?
200
The study of how we perceive sensory stimuli based on their physical characteristics
What is psychophysics
200
The two animals that could be seen in an illusion in the second video
What are a rabbit and duck?
200
The membrane located at the back of the eye responsible for converting light into neural activity
What is the retina
200
The inverse of wavelength
What is sound wave frequency?
200
Responsible for our ability to detect pressure ranging from a gentle tickle of a stray hair to the crushing sensation of having someone trip and land on top of us
What is somatosensation?
300
The condition in which people experience cross-modal processing
Synesthesia
300
According to the first video, the name for light clusters
What are photons?
300
Name two key parts of the eye
What are (anything in Figure 4.8)?
300
The presentation of dissimilar sounds to the two ears
What are binaural cues?
300
Most mammals use this to detect pheromones
What is the vomeronasal organ?
400
In Figure 4.4 what are the two possible images that can be seen.
What is a woman or a saxophone player
400
The light rays are turned into this
What are electrical signals?
400
The place where visual information goes to after leaving the retina.
What is the visual thalamus?
400
The three parts of the ear;another name for the eardrum
What are outer,middle,and inner ear?;what is the tympanic membrane?
400
A recently discovered taste type
What is umami?
500
The two types of parallel processing
What are bottom-up and top-down processing?
500
This place is in absolute darkness.
What is the brain?
500
A photo in which a imaginary square is perceived
What is a kanizsa square?
500
This structure is specialized for light touch
What is the Meissner's corpuscle?
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