A tiny pit in the center of the retina that is densely filled with cones.
What is the Fovea?
This source of stress is a forced choice between two or more incompatible alternatives.
What is a Conflict?
The ________ theory of color vision states that there are three systems of color opposites.
What is the Opposite Process Theory?
Ability to adjust changed sensory stimuli.
What is Perceptual Adaptation?
Similar behavior is treated differently depending on race or gender.
What is the Hubris Penalty?
The retinal receptor cells with high sensitivity to color and detail but low sensitivity in dim light.
What are the Cones?
The source of stress where small problems of daily living may accumulate and become a major source of stress.
What is a Hassle?
These strategies are used to deal directly with a stressor in order to eventually decrease or eliminate it.
What are Problem-Focused Coping Strategies?
Processes used to form impressions and make inferences about other people/events.
What is Social Perception?
The alarm phase, the resistance phase, the exhaustion phase.
What are the three phases of G
The part of the eye where the retinal receptor cells with high sensitivity in dim light but with low sensitivity to detail and color.
What are the Rods?
These sources of stress require adjustments in behavior or daily activities that may cause some degree of stress.
What are Life Changes?
This theory explains our ability to detect weak stimuli amid environmental conditions, and is determined by both internal and external factors.
What is the Signal Detection Theory?
How we perceive the distance of objects is thought to be a human instinct.
What is depth perception?
Information processing that starts from analysis of smaller features and builds on it
What is Bottom-Up processing?
A small adjustable opening.
What is the Pupil?
_____ Stress is when a stressful occurrence happens suddenly, and generally affects many people simultaneously, often resulting in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
What are Cataclysmic Events
The _______ theory is the theory that states sleep allows organisms to repair their bodies or recuperate from depleting daily waking activities.
What is the Restorative Theory?
Tendency to prefer evidence that confirms preexisting expectations while dismissing contradictory.
What is confirmation bias?
Brain creates usable information from sensory information based on prior knowledge.
What is Top-Down processing?
Muscles in this, allow the pupil to dilate or constrict in response to light intensity or emotional factors.
What is the Iris?
These forms of stress are either a short-term state of arousal in response to a perceived challenge or threat, or a continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them.
What is acute/chronic stress?
This theory states that dreams are a by-product of random, spontaneous stimulation of brain cells during sleep, which the brain combines into coherent patterns known as dreams.
What is the Activation-synthesis Theory?
Bias that causes a person to focus primarily on the most noticeable factors of something.
What is Saliency bias?
________ is false or misleading perception of stimuli that actually exist.
What is Illusion?