Light enters the eye through this and the image gets flipped onto the retina.
What is the pupil?
100
Perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli
What is an optical illusion?
100
Occurs most often in males and is hereditary.
What is color deficiency?
200
This is the deepest stage of sleep.
What is Stage IV?
200
Thought that dreams are the result of people's fears and desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
Specialized receptor cells responsible for night vision
What are rods?
200
Tendency to perceive certain objects in the same way regardless of changes in angle, distance, or lighting
What is consistency?
200
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
300
This is the part of your sleep that you are in when you dream.
What is REM?
300
Thought that dreams were where people entered the spiritual world and spoke with those who passed away
Who are the Inuit People?
300
The nerve on which smell receptors send information to the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve?
300
brief auditory or visual messages presented below the absolute threshold
What are subliminal messages?
300
The reason you do not constantly feel your clothing on your body
What is sensory adaptation?
400
Frequent interruptions of breathing during sleep
What is Sleep Apnea?
400
Thinks dreaming is the brain’s way of removing unneeded memories or information
Who is Francis Crick?
400
The larger or stronger a stimulus, the larger the change required for a person to notice anything has happened to it.
What is Weber's Law?
400
the experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of information into meaningful wholes. Includes: proximity, continuity, similarity, simplicity and closure
What is Gestalt?
400
Differences between the images stimulating each eye
What is retinal disparity?
500
This is the biological clock that regulates activity and inactivity in a 24-hour period.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
500
believed that dreams mean nothing and that it is just a result of stimulated brain cells throwing random information
Who is Nathaniel Kleitman?
500
Regulates the body's sense of balance
What is vestibular system?
500
Filling in the gaps of what we cannot see. Largely based on experience
What is perceptual inference?
500
Studies the relations between motivation, sensitivity, and decision making in detecting the presence or absence of a stimulus