Sensation and perception intro
Senses and Vision
Seeing and Perceiving
Hearing and Touch
Taste and Smell
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The activation of the sense system
What is Sensation?
100
The reduced sensitivity in response to constant stimulation.
What is Sensory adaptation?
100
The theory that we have four primary cones responsible for one color each.
What is The Opponent-Process Theory?
100
This is what actually hits our ear drums and creates sound.
What are Differently pressured air waves?
100
The five types of taste buds.
What are Bitter, Sour, Salty, Sweet, and Umami?
200
The interpretation of Sensations
What is Perception?
200
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing rather than another.
What is the Perceptual Set?
200
This type of color blindness occurs when an individual either has no cones or no working cones.
What is Monochromatic color blindness?
200
The part of the ear that receives a message from the eear drum.
What is The Cochlea?
200
This sensory interaction is essential for taste ability.
What is smell and taste?
300
The term for when sensory information is changed to a neural impulse.
What is Transduction?
300
The pureness of color brightness on the eye.
What is Saturation?
300
The idea that we view the whole image rather than individual parts of an image.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
300
The four senses that make up our sense of touch.
What is Pressure, Warmth, Cold, and Pain?
300
The reason smell evokes so many strong memories.
What is The part of the brain that perceives smell is near the area that stores LTM.
400
This is used to manipulate people's moods. It causes them to feel a certain way.
What is Priming?
400
This type of light has a short wave (amplitude)
What is dim light?
400
This type of perception utilizes the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings.
What is Figure-ground perception?
400
While pain is a result of physical touch, it can also be a product of this. (Phantom Limb Syndrome)
What is the expectation of pain?
400
Smell is the only sense not to do this.
What is relay through the Thalamus to a designated part of the brain.
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The smallest difference between 2 things that can be detected.
What is the Difference Threshold?
500
This type of adaptation occurs when rods go from a light place to a dark place.
What is Dark Adaptation?
500
This allows us to interpret the 2D image that hits our eye in 3D.
What is Depth perception?
500
This is the only one of the four skin senses to have it's own receptors.
What is Pressure?
500
The sense that is responsible for the sense of body movement and balance.
What is The Vestibular Sense?
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