The size of the just noticeable difference will vary depending on its relation to the strength of the original stimulus.
What is Weber's Law?
100
Name the 4 characteristics of attention.
What is misdirection, inattentional blindness, inattentional deafness & change blindness?
100
This is a picture that uses the principle of binocular disparity to create perception of a 3D image.
What is a stereogram?
100
Two basic types of sleep.
What is REN (rapid eye movement) & NREM (non-rapid eye movement/quiet sleep)?
100
Are small sensory fibers in skin, muscles, and internal organs.
What are nociceptors (free nerve endings)?
200
Name 3 sensory thresholds and what they do.
What is absolute threshold (strength of stimulus detected 1/2 the time), difference threshold (smallest possible different 1/2 the time), Sensory Adaptation ( get used to it)
200
Daytime stress, anxiety and emotional difficulties are often associated with this...
What are nightmares?
200
Detections of information by any means other than through the normal processes of sensation.
What is Extrasensory Perception (ESP)?
200
States of dreaming is like thinking with reduced sensory input and voluntary control absences.
What is the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming?
200
Accounts for 90,000 deaths annually in the U.S.
What is alcohol?
300
Specialized cells unique to each sense organ that respond to a particular form of sensory simulation.
What is Sensory Reception?
300
People living in urban industrialized environments have a great deal of perceptual experience in judging lines, corners, edges and other rectangular objects.
What is the Carpentered-World Hypothesis?
300
Name the 5 different tastes.
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter and Umami (MSG)?
300
During this stage of sleep, a person's heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing slow.
What is stage 3, (NREM) slow wave sleep?
300
Create profound perceptual distortions alter mood, and affect thinking.
What are psychedelic drugs?
400
The process by which a form of physical energy is converted into a coded neural signal that can be processed by the nervous system
What is Transduction?
400
A cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus that governs the timing of circadian rhythms
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)?
400
Emphasizes importance of observer's conginitve processes in arriving at meaningful perceptions; moves from whole to part; also called conceptually driven processing.
What is Top-Down Processing?
400
Profound changes in subjective experience of consciousness and sensory changes.
What is hypnosis?
400
Elevate mood and produce a sense of euphoria, increasing mental alertness and reducing fatigue.
What are Amphetamines?
500
Provides a good explanation for red-green color blindness; does not explain after-image.
What is the Trichromatic theory?
500
Name 4 types of psychoactive drugs.
What is depressants, opiates, stimulants & psychedelics?
500
Pain experience is interpreted by the brain, which sends signals down the spinal cord.
What is the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?
500
Are undesired arousal or actions during sleep.
What are parasomnias?
500
Causes neurons to release serotonin, a synthetic club drug with stimulant, emotional and mild psychedelic effects.