Eye
Ear
Sensation
Perception
Misc.
100
Light enters the eye here.
What is the pupil?
100
Sound is measured in this.
What is decibels?
100
This occurs anytime a stimulus activates one of your receptors.
What is sensation?
100
The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.
What is perception?
100
Incorrect perceptions.
What are illusions?
200
The lens focuses light here.
What is the retina?
200
Sound is initially processed here.
What is the middle ear?
200
The weakest amount of stimulus that a person can detect half the time.
What is absolute threshold?
200
Wholes organized by the brain?
What isa Gestalt?
200
Brief messages presented just below the absolute threshold.
What are subliminal messages?
300
Photoreceptor that requires more light.
What is cones?
300
Responsible for balance.
What is the vestibular system?
300
Father of psychophysics.
Who is Fechner?
300
When we see a familiar pattern or shape with some parts missing, we fill in the gaps.
What is Closure?
300
The ability to recognize distances and three-dimensionality.
What is depth perception?
400
This carries impulses from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
400
This proceses sound signals to the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
400
Smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus that a person is able to detect.
What is Just noticeable difference?
400
Ability to discriminate properly between a figure and its background.
What is figure-ground perception?
400
Receiving information about the world through channels other than the normal senses.
What is ESP?
500
Part of the brain that process visual images.
What is the occipital lobe?
500
Type of deafness that can be helped with a hearing aid.
What is conduction deafness?
500
The larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for a person to notice that anything has happened to it.
What is Weber's Law?
500
Two types of depth cues.
What is monocular and binocular depth cues?
500
The sense of movement and body position.
What is kinesthesis?
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