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What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?
Perception
What is it called when we fail to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere?
Inattentional Blindness
What is the process of converting one form of energy into another form that our brain can use called?
Transduction
What is it called when information processing is guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experiences?
Top-down Processing
What is it called when we focus our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?
Selective Attention
What is perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change known as?
Perceptual Constancy
What is the binocular cue that uses inward angle of the eyes focusing on a near object called?
Convergence
What is the binocular cue used for perceiving depth by comparing images from the two eyes?
Retinal Disparity
What theory explains how we sense low pitches?
Frequency Theory
What sense monitors your head’s position and movement?
Vestibular
In your middle ear, a piston is made of what three tiny bones?
Hammer (Malleus)
Anvil (Incus)
Stirrup (Stapes)
What theory can explain how we hear high-pitched sounds?
Place Theory
The sense of smell is also known as what?
Olfaction
According to Gustav Fechner what are the minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular sense 50 percent of the time called?
What is your ability to attend to one voice among a sea of other voices known as?
Cocktail Party
What are stimuli you cannot consciously detect 50 percent of the time called?
subliminal
What is it called when sensitivity is diminished as consequence of constant stimulation.
Sensory Adaptation
What states that for an average person to perceive a difference, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage?
Weber's Law
What two things are our eyes’ light-sensitive photoreceptors.
Rods and Cones
In our eye-brain system, what is our first perceptual task of perceiving and object as distinct from its surroundings called?
Figure-Ground
Name the 3 rules of visual grouping identified by Gestalt psychologists:
Proximity
Continuity
Closure
Explain the three steps that all senses use to convert one form of energy into another.
Name the three most testable and relevant ESP claims.
Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Precognition
What are the 5 taste sensations?
Sweet
Sour
Salty
Bitter
Umami
What are the four sensations of touch?
Pressure
Hot
Cold
Pain