The Eye
The Ear
Definitions
Other Senses
Wild Card
100
This transparent structure behind the pupil changes shapes or accommodates to focus images on the retina...
What is the Lens?
100
Collects and sends sounds to ear drum...
What is the Outer Ear?
100
The mental predisposition to perceive on thing and not another...
What is Perceptual Set?
100
The part of the ear that is most likely damaged if someone has hearing loss...
What is the hair cells?
100
These enable color vision, are highly concentrated in the foveal region of the retina, and have a higher absolute threshold than rods...
What are cones?
200
The region of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye...
What is the Blind Spot?
200
A fluid-filled, snail shaped tube in the inner ear...
What is the Cochlea?
200
Refers to the difference between the images received by the left eye and the right eye as the result of viewing the world from slightly different angles. It is a binocular cue, since the greater the difference between the two images, the nearer the object...
What is Retinal Disparity?
200
The principle that one sense may influence another...
What is Sensory Interaction?
200
This theory maintains that color vision depends on pairs of opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, & white-black)...
What is Opponent-Process Theory?
300
This is the colored part of the eye that adjusts or regulates light...
What is the Iris?
300
This is an air-filled chamber containing a piston (or 3 tiny bones) consisting of the hammer, anvil, & stirrup...
What is Middle Ear?
300
The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time...
What is Absolute Threshold?
300
One of the four distinct skin senses that has definable receptors...
What is Pressure?
300
The principal that one sense may influence another...
What is Sensory Interaction?
400
This is the light sensitive, multilayered tissue which contains rods & cones and converts light energy into neural impulses...
What is the Retina?
400
Refers to the sense of hearing...
What is Audition?
400
Refers to the decreased sensitivity that occurs with continued exposure to an unchanging stimulus...
What is Sensory Adaptation?
400
Which basic taste attracts us to protein-rich foods?
What is Umami?
400
Wavelength is to Hue as this is to brightness...
What is Intensity?
500
The retina's point of central focus which contains only cones; therefore, images focused on it are the clearest...
What is the Fovea?
500
This part of the ear contains receptors for audition and vestibular sense...
What is Inner Ear?
500
The perception that familiar objects have consistent color despite changes in illumination that shift the wavelengths they reflect...
What is Color Constancy?
500
Pleasant memories are most like grandma's cookies evoked by exposure to....
What is Fragrant odors or Scent?
500
This term means "whole"...
What is gestalt?
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